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Side viii
... Societies . But all this is below the occasion . I feel that far grander interests are at stake in this contest . The Peace Societies are falsely appreciated , when they are described as merely deaf to the lessons of experience , and as ...
... Societies . But all this is below the occasion . I feel that far grander interests are at stake in this contest . The Peace Societies are falsely appreciated , when they are described as merely deaf to the lessons of experience , and as ...
Side ix
... Societies would , if their power kept pace with their guilty purposes , work degradation for man by drawing upon his most effeminate and luxurious cravings for ease . Most heartily , and with my profoundest sympathy , do I go along with ...
... Societies would , if their power kept pace with their guilty purposes , work degradation for man by drawing upon his most effeminate and luxurious cravings for ease . Most heartily , and with my profoundest sympathy , do I go along with ...
Side xiv
... society so favorable to an adventurous cast of incidents , that they would everywhere pass for romances , if severed from the documents which attest their fidelity to facts . In the former class stand the admirable novels of De Foe ...
... society so favorable to an adventurous cast of incidents , that they would everywhere pass for romances , if severed from the documents which attest their fidelity to facts . In the former class stand the admirable novels of De Foe ...
Side xv
... society at that period in Spanish America , that a reader the most credulous would at times be startled with doubts upon what seems so unvarying a tenor of danger and lawless violence . But , on the other hand , it is also undeniable ...
... society at that period in Spanish America , that a reader the most credulous would at times be startled with doubts upon what seems so unvarying a tenor of danger and lawless violence . But , on the other hand , it is also undeniable ...
Side 20
... ; when I was in my first year of life , she , an orphan and a great heiress , was in her tenth or eleventh . " - See closing pages of " Autobiographic Sketches . " delightful society , and her sweet , Irish style of 20 THE ORPHAN HEIRESS .
... ; when I was in my first year of life , she , an orphan and a great heiress , was in her tenth or eleventh . " - See closing pages of " Autobiographic Sketches . " delightful society , and her sweet , Irish style of 20 THE ORPHAN HEIRESS .
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absolute admiration Ali Pacha amongst ancient argument aristocratic Armatoles army authority believe called century character Christian circumstances common connected Dale Delphic Delphic Oracle Demosthenes discipline enemy England English Epirus error existence expression fact fathers feeling gentleman Gordon Grecian Greece Greek guineas happened Herodotus honor horses human hundred instance interest Jeremy Taylor known Knutsford Lady Carbery Laxton less Lord Brougham Lord Carbery Lord Massey Mahometan Manchester means Meantime ment mode modern moral Morea mother motive mysterious namely naturally never noble once Oracle original Oxford Pacha Pagan palæstra Paley peculiar Peloponnesus perhaps political pounds privilege profession purpose question rank reader reason regard religion revolution Schreiber seemed sense Serasker simply society spirit Suli Suliotes supposed thousand tion town truth Turkish Turks Van Dale vast Wallachia whilst whole word writers young
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Side 78 - With supple joints, as lively vigor led : But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not; to speak I tried, and forthwith spake; My tongue obey'd, and readily could name Whate'er I saw.
Side 237 - If a man denied himself all specious arguments, and all artifices of dialectic subtlety, he must renounce the hopes of a present triumph ; for the light of absolute truth, on moral or on spiritual themes, is too dazzling to be sustained by the diseased optics of those habituated to darkness.
Side 84 - 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 philosophy being confided to one of the keepers, who was very attentive to me, in deference to the interest in myself expressed by his idolized mistress, but otherwise regarded me probably as an object of mysterious curiosity rather than of sublunary hope. Equally, in fact, as regarded my physics and my metaphysics,...
Side 78 - 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; all things smiled; With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflow'd. Myself I then perused, and limb by limb Survey'd, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigour led; But who I was, or where, or from what cause,...
Side 21 - The portals of the dawn; all paradise Could, by the simple opening of a door, Let itself in upon him...
Side 197 - THERE was one reason why I sought solitude at that early age, and sought it in a morbid excess, which must naturally have conferred upon my character some degree of that interest which belongs to all extremes. My eye had been couched into a secondary power of vision, by misery, by solitude, by sympathy with life in all its modes, by experience too early won, and by the sense of danger critically escaped. Suppose the case of a man suspended by some colossal arm over an unfathomed abyss, — suspended,...
Side 78 - 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 liv'd and mov'd, and walk'd or flew ; Birds on the branches warbling ; all things smil'd With fragrance, and with joy my heart o'erflow'd.
Side 216 - Shakspeare was ; for the motions of his mind were slow, solemn, sequacious, like those of the planets ; not agile and assimilative ; not attracting all things within its own sphere ; not multiform : repulsion was the law of his intellect — he moved in solitary grandeur. Yet, merely from this quality of grandeur, unapproachable grandeur, his intellect demanded a larger infusion of Latinity into his diction.
Side 131 - Is India free? and does she wear her plumed And jewelled turban with a smile of peace, Or do we grind her still?
Bibliografiske oplysninger
| Titel | Memorials: And Other Papers, Bind 1 Memorials: And Other Papers, Thomas De Quincey Bind 19–20 af Writings, Thomas De Quincey |
| Forfatter | Thomas De Quincey |
| Udgiver | Ticknor & Fields, 1856 |
| Oprindeligt fra | Harvard University |
| Digitaliseret | 7. nov 2007 |
| Eksporter henvisning | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |