Beauties: Selected from the Writings of Thomas De QuinceyHoughton, Mifflin, 1862 - 432 sider |
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... sudden death when he happens to be intoxicated , such a death is falsely regarded with peculiar horror ; as though the intoxi- cation were suddenly exalted into a blasphemy . But that is unphilosophic . The man was , or he was not ...
... sudden death when he happens to be intoxicated , such a death is falsely regarded with peculiar horror ; as though the intoxi- cation were suddenly exalted into a blasphemy . But that is unphilosophic . The man was , or he was not ...
Side 177
... sudden death , there would have been a new feature in his act of intemper- ance feature of presumption and irreverence , as in one that , having known himself drawing near to the ... sudden ; his offence 8 * THE VISION OF SUDDEN DEATH . 177.
... sudden death , there would have been a new feature in his act of intemper- ance feature of presumption and irreverence , as in one that , having known himself drawing near to the ... sudden ; his offence 8 * THE VISION OF SUDDEN DEATH . 177.
Side 197
... suddenly as from the woods and fields . - suddenly as from the chambers of the air opening in evelation suddenly as from the ground yawning at er feet , leaped upon her , with the flashing of cataracts , Death the crowned phantom , with ...
... suddenly as from the woods and fields . - suddenly as from the chambers of the air opening in evelation suddenly as from the ground yawning at er feet , leaped upon her , with the flashing of cataracts , Death the crowned phantom , with ...
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THE DE QUINCEYS | 13 |
INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF STRIFE | 30 |
THE NATION OF LONDON | 53 |
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alguazils amongst ancient Bishop of Beauvais brother called Catalina Charles Lamb child Coleridge conversation darkness daugh daughter death deep Domrémy dreadful dreams earth Easedale England English Eton expression eyes face fact father fear feelings forests forever France girl Grasmere grave grief hand head heard heart heaven honor horse hour human intellectual interest Joanna Kate Kate's king knew lady less light London looked Lord Madame de Staël mighty mind morning mother nature never night once opium Paita palimpsest party perhaps person pinnace poor Quincey reader reason road rose Sarah Green scene secret seemed sense Sir William Hamilton sister sleep solemn solitary solitude sorrow sound Spain stranger sublime sudden suddenly suffer supposed thee thing Thomas de Quincey thou thought tion vast vellum voice whilst whispered whole woman word Wordsworth young