Beauties: Selected from the Writings of Thomas De QuinceyHurd, 1877 - 432 sider |
Fra bogen
Resultater 1-5 af 62
Side ix
... words , fitting the thought to a hair's breadth , there is a striking peculiarity in his style , which can be best explained by himself . He says , A sentence , even when insulated and viewed apart for itself , is a subject for complex ...
... words , fitting the thought to a hair's breadth , there is a striking peculiarity in his style , which can be best explained by himself . He says , A sentence , even when insulated and viewed apart for itself , is a subject for complex ...
Side 43
... word on such a child as myself . The day was come , how- ever , when all that would be changed . One of these leaders strode up to me in the public play ground , and , delivering a blow on my shoulder , which was not intended to hurt me ...
... word on such a child as myself . The day was come , how- ever , when all that would be changed . One of these leaders strode up to me in the public play ground , and , delivering a blow on my shoulder , which was not intended to hurt me ...
Side 44
... ; but he was on the wing for Cambridge ; and with the rest , or some of them , I con- tinued to wage war for more than a year . And yet , 66 for a word spoken with kindness , how readily I 44 BEAUTIES OF DE QUINCEY .
... ; but he was on the wing for Cambridge ; and with the rest , or some of them , I con- tinued to wage war for more than a year . And yet , 66 for a word spoken with kindness , how readily I 44 BEAUTIES OF DE QUINCEY .
Side 45
... word ; but at present I doubt whether in reality any thing very serious had hap- pened . In fact , I was always under a nervous panic for my head , and certainly exaggerated my internal feelings without meaning to do so ; and this ...
... word ; but at present I doubt whether in reality any thing very serious had hap- pened . In fact , I was always under a nervous panic for my head , and certainly exaggerated my internal feelings without meaning to do so ; and this ...
Side 48
... words , of which I caught " Grace of God , " " France and Ireland , " " Defender of the Faith , and so forth . " This solemn recitation of the legend on the coin was meant as a fanciful way of apprising me that the king was ap ...
... words , of which I caught " Grace of God , " " France and Ireland , " " Defender of the Faith , and so forth . " This solemn recitation of the legend on the coin was meant as a fanciful way of apprising me that the king was ap ...
Andre udgaver - Se alle
Almindelige termer og sætninger
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