Beauties: Selected from the Writings of Thomas De QuinceyHurd, 1877 - 432 sider |
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Side 17
... of happy years , thou also wert summoned away from our nursery ; and the night , which for me gathered upon that event , ran after my steps far into life ; and perhaps at this day I resemble little for good or for ill that CHILDHOOD . 17.
... of happy years , thou also wert summoned away from our nursery ; and the night , which for me gathered upon that event , ran after my steps far into life ; and perhaps at this day I resemble little for good or for ill that CHILDHOOD . 17.
Side 18
... night of trouble , on which the dawn would soon arise . O mo- ment of darkness and delirium , when the elder nurse awakened me from that delusion , and launched God's thunderbolt at my heart in the assurance that my sister MUST die ...
... night of trouble , on which the dawn would soon arise . O mo- ment of darkness and delirium , when the elder nurse awakened me from that delusion , and launched God's thunderbolt at my heart in the assurance that my sister MUST die ...
Side 31
... night of his arrival at Greenhay . It was a summer evening of unusual solemnity . The servants and four of us children , were gathered for hours on the lawn before the house , listening for the sound of wheels . Sunset came - nine , ten ...
... night of his arrival at Greenhay . It was a summer evening of unusual solemnity . The servants and four of us children , were gathered for hours on the lawn before the house , listening for the sound of wheels . Sunset came - nine , ten ...
Side 32
... night . The listening for hours to the sounds from horses ' hoofs upon distant roads , rising and falling , caught and lost , upon the gentle undulation of such fitful airs as might be stirring the peculiar solemnity of the hours suc ...
... night . The listening for hours to the sounds from horses ' hoofs upon distant roads , rising and falling , caught and lost , upon the gentle undulation of such fitful airs as might be stirring the peculiar solemnity of the hours suc ...
Side 82
... night she assured me , when talking over the case , that she had never witnessed an expression of such settled misery , and also ( so she fancied ) of misanthro- - py , as that which darkened my countenance in 82 BEAUTIES OF DE QUINCEY .
... night she assured me , when talking over the case , that she had never witnessed an expression of such settled misery , and also ( so she fancied ) of misanthro- - py , as that which darkened my countenance in 82 BEAUTIES OF DE QUINCEY .
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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