Beauties Selected from the Writings of Thomas De QuinceyHoughton, Osgood, 1879 - 432 sider |
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... amongst the fine arts , and is able therefore to yield a separate intellectual pleasure quite apart from the interest of the subject treated . So far , it is already one error to rate the value of style as if it were ne cessarily a ...
... amongst the fine arts , and is able therefore to yield a separate intellectual pleasure quite apart from the interest of the subject treated . So far , it is already one error to rate the value of style as if it were ne cessarily a ...
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... Amongst these was one branch of the De Quinceys . Enamored of Democracy , this family , laying aside the aristocratic De attached to their name , settled in New - England where they subsequently rose , through long public services , to ...
... Amongst these was one branch of the De Quinceys . Enamored of Democracy , this family , laying aside the aristocratic De attached to their name , settled in New - England where they subsequently rose , through long public services , to ...
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... amongst three mighty nations , - France , America , and England , and precisely those three that are usually regarded as the leaders of civilization . II . CHILDHOOD . My father was a merchant ; 14 BEAUTIES OF DE QUINCEY .
... amongst three mighty nations , - France , America , and England , and precisely those three that are usually regarded as the leaders of civilization . II . CHILDHOOD . My father was a merchant ; 14 BEAUTIES OF DE QUINCEY .
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... amongst the corre- sponding orders in foreign nations . - - We , the children of the house , stood , in fact , upon the very happiest tier in the social scaffolding for all good influences . The prayer of Agur- " Give me neither poverty ...
... amongst the corre- sponding orders in foreign nations . - - We , the children of the house , stood , in fact , upon the very happiest tier in the social scaffolding for all good influences . The prayer of Agur- " Give me neither poverty ...
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... amongst the fascina- tions of her presence . I grieved that my sister should lie in bed ; I grieved still more to hear her moan . all this appeared to me no more than as a night of trouble , on which the dawn would soon arise . O mo ...
... amongst the fascina- tions of her presence . I grieved that my sister should lie in bed ; I grieved still more to hear her moan . all this appeared to me no more than as a night of trouble , on which the dawn would soon arise . O mo ...
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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 forever France girl Grasmere grave grief hand happened 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 utter vast vellum voice whilst whole woman word Wordsworth young