De Quincey's Writings: Memorials, and other papers. [Stereotyped ed.] 1856Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1856 |
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Side xi
... is not held necessary to plead anything ; war justifies itself . To fight for the experimental purpose of trying the proportions of martial merit , but ( to speak frankly ) for the purpose of publishing EXPLANATORY NOTICES . XI.
... is not held necessary to plead anything ; war justifies itself . To fight for the experimental purpose of trying the proportions of martial merit , but ( to speak frankly ) for the purpose of publishing EXPLANATORY NOTICES . XI.
Side xii
Thomas De Quincey. ( to speak frankly ) for the purpose of publishing and renewing to Europe the proclamation of French superiority - that is the object of French wars . Like the Spartan of old , the Frenchman would hold that a state of ...
Thomas De Quincey. ( to speak frankly ) for the purpose of publishing and renewing to Europe the proclamation of French superiority - that is the object of French wars . Like the Spartan of old , the Frenchman would hold that a state of ...
Side 22
... speaking , that cannot be denied . But in me , though naturally the shyest of human beings , intense commerce with men of every rank , from the highest to the lowest , had availed to dissipate all arrears of mauvaise honte ; I could ...
... speaking , that cannot be denied . But in me , though naturally the shyest of human beings , intense commerce with men of every rank , from the highest to the lowest , had availed to dissipate all arrears of mauvaise honte ; I could ...
Side 33
... speak of our English literature collectively , in reference to the one point of its variety , being also a man of honor , and disdaining that sort of patriotism which sacrifices the truth to nationality , speaks of our pretensions in ...
... speak of our English literature collectively , in reference to the one point of its variety , being also a man of honor , and disdaining that sort of patriotism which sacrifices the truth to nationality , speaks of our pretensions in ...
Side 36
... speaking , it bears the strongest impress of truthfulness . But , on the other hand , how false and powerless does this same Sir Walter become , when the necessities of his tale oblige him at any time to come amongst the English ...
... speaking , it bears the strongest impress of truthfulness . But , on the other hand , how false and powerless does this same Sir Walter become , when the necessities of his tale oblige him at any time to come amongst the English ...
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Side 78 - By quick instinctive motion, up I sprung, As thitherward endeavouring, and upright Stood on my feet: about me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these Creatures that lived and moved, and walked or flew; Birds on the branches warbling; ~a.ll things smiled; With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowed.
Side 205 - In short, up to 1820, the name of Wordsworth was trampled under foot; from 1820 to 1830, it was militant; from 1830 to 1835, it has been triumphant.
Side 84 - I surrendered myself for two hours daily to the lessons in horsemanship of a principal groom who ranked as a first-rate rough-rider ; and I gathered manifold experiences amongst the horses — so different from the wild, hard-mouthed horses at Westport, that were often vicious, and sometimes trained to vice. Here, though spirited, the horses were pretty generally gentle, and all had been regularly broke. My education was not entirely neglected even as regarded sportsmanship ; that great branch of...
Side 82 - Never in any equal number of months had my understanding so much expanded as during this visit to Laxton. The incessant demand made upon me by Lady Carbery for solutions of the many difficulties besetting the study of divinity and the Greek Testament, or for such approximations to solutions as my resources would furnish, forced me into a preternatural tension of all the faculties applicable to that purpose.
Side 211 - This fancy, often patronized by other writers, and even acted upon, resembles that restraint which some metrical writers have imposed upon themselves — of writing a long copy of verses from which some particular letter, or from each line of which some different letter, should be carefully excluded.
Side 78 - Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams : by these, Creatures that lived and moved, and walked or flew ; Birds on the branches warbling : all things smiled ; With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowed.
Side 21 - Arabian fiction never filled the world With half the wonders that were wrought for him. Earth breathed in one great presence of the spring ; Life turned the meanest of her implements, Before his eyes, to price above all gold ; The house she dwelt in was a sainted shrine ; Her chamber window did surpass in glory The portals of the dawn...
Side 314 - This, the crowning order and key-stone of the society, was reputed to comprehend sixteen " mysterious and illustrious names," amongst which were obscurely whispered those of the Czar, the Crown Prince of Bavaria and of Wurtemburg, of the Hospodar of Wallachia, of Count Capodistria, and some others. The orders of the Grand Arch were written in cipher, and bore a seal having in sixteen compartments the same number of initial letters. The revenue which it commanded must have been considerable ; for...