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... Oxford . Some boys would have hailed the change with pleasure , but young De Quincey , though then but fifteen and a few months more , was premature in the expansion of his mind , and had begun to think boyish society intolerable . went ...
... Oxford . Some boys would have hailed the change with pleasure , but young De Quincey , though then but fifteen and a few months more , was premature in the expansion of his mind , and had begun to think boyish society intolerable . went ...
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... Oxford upon £ 100 of an annual allowance , and proceeded thither in the October of 1803 . The Autobiographic Sketches , ' as republished , terminate with his sudden resolution to go to Oxford . In their original form , as contributions ...
... Oxford upon £ 100 of an annual allowance , and proceeded thither in the October of 1803 . The Autobiographic Sketches , ' as republished , terminate with his sudden resolution to go to Oxford . In their original form , as contributions ...
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... Oxford without offering himself for the oral part . In the intervals of his residence at Oxford , he began to make occasional visits to London , and to get introductions to literary society . He had always been especially anxious to see ...
... Oxford without offering himself for the oral part . In the intervals of his residence at Oxford , he began to make occasional visits to London , and to get introductions to literary society . He had always been especially anxious to see ...
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... Oxford . And this event arose in the following way : From an early age I had been accustomed , " & c . The four sentences of the original are amalgamated into two , without any condensation of the original bulk . On the contrary ...
... Oxford . And this event arose in the following way : From an early age I had been accustomed , " & c . The four sentences of the original are amalgamated into two , without any condensation of the original bulk . On the contrary ...
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... Oxford " enjoyed an unlim- ited favour with an infinite gamut of friends and associates , run- ning through every key , the diapason closing full in groom , cobbler , and stable - boy . " Ceylon is " a panorganon for modulating through ...
... Oxford " enjoyed an unlim- ited favour with an infinite gamut of friends and associates , run- ning through every key , the diapason closing full in groom , cobbler , and stable - boy . " Ceylon is " a panorganon for modulating through ...
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abrupt abstruse admiration antithesis appear Cæsars called Carlyle Carlyle's century character Chartism Church Church of England circumstances comparison composition contrast criticism death described diction doctrines Edinburgh Review effect ELEMENTS OF STYLE England English Essays Euphuism example exposition expression fact favour favourite feelings Figures of Speech French French Revolution give Grasmere Henry VIII honour Hooker human humour intellectual interest Jeremy Taylor John Sterling King labour language Latin less literary literature living London Lord Macaulay Macaulay's manner matter means ment mind narrative nature never objects opinion opium Oxford paragraph particular passage pathos peculiar perhaps period periodic sentence perspicuous poetry political popular probably prose QUALITIES OF STYLE Quincey Quincey's quoted reader regards Revolution says sense sentence similitudes simplicity statement sublimity synecdoche things THOMAS DE QUINCEY tion translation Whig words writers wrote
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Side 139 - They were the leaders of men, these great ones; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realisation and embodiment, of Thoughts that dwelt in the Great Men sent into the world: the soul of the whole world's history, it may justly be considered, were the history of these.
Side 287 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Side 245 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Side 205 - Poesy, therefore, is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in the word mimesis, that is to say a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth— to speak metaphorically, a speaking picture, with this end, to teach and delight.
Side 245 - Read, not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Side 285 - ... But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hoo'd, and at first it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion...
Side 225 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Side 230 - Talking of stones, stars, plants, of fishes, flies, Playing with words and idle similes...
Side 390 - Women are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end therefore that ladies may be entire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected an academy for the training up of young women in the exercise of the fan...
Side 471 - The slightest misfortunes of the great, the most imaginary uneasiness of the rich, are aggravated with all the power of eloquence, and held up to engage our attention and sympathetic sorrow. The poor weep unheeded, persecuted by every subordinate species of tyranny ; and every law which gives others security, becomes an enemy to them.