Memorials: And Other Papers, Bind 1Ticknor & Fields, 1856 |
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... my sense of the liberality manifested throughout this transaction by your honorable house . Ever believe me , my dear sir , Your faithful and obliged , THOMAS DE QUINCEY . CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. EXPLANATORY NOTICES , THE ORPHAN HEIRESS.
... my sense of the liberality manifested throughout this transaction by your honorable house . Ever believe me , my dear sir , Your faithful and obliged , THOMAS DE QUINCEY . CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. EXPLANATORY NOTICES , THE ORPHAN HEIRESS.
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... believe , from Cadiz and St. Lucar to Seville ; chiefly , perhaps , through the confusions incident to the two French invasions of Spain in our own day [ 1st , that under Napoleon ; 2dly , that under the Duc d'Angoulême ] . Amongst ...
... believe , from Cadiz and St. Lucar to Seville ; chiefly , perhaps , through the confusions incident to the two French invasions of Spain in our own day [ 1st , that under Napoleon ; 2dly , that under the Duc d'Angoulême ] . Amongst ...
Side 33
... believe , had been the price paid cheerfully at one time for a complete set of Hearne . At Laxton , also , it was that first I saw the total array of works edited by Dr. Birch . It was a complete armilustrium , a recognitio , or ...
... believe , had been the price paid cheerfully at one time for a complete set of Hearne . At Laxton , also , it was that first I saw the total array of works edited by Dr. Birch . It was a complete armilustrium , a recognitio , or ...
Side 40
... believe that he was right . A schoolboy like myself had fortunately no dignity to lose . But Lord Massey , a needy Irish peer ( or , strictly speaking , since the Union no peer at all , though still an hereditary lord ) , was bound to ...
... believe that he was right . A schoolboy like myself had fortunately no dignity to lose . But Lord Massey , a needy Irish peer ( or , strictly speaking , since the Union no peer at all , though still an hereditary lord ) , was bound to ...
Side 42
... believe ) that he married an illegitimate daughter of Charles I. But this sketch was begun more than thirty years ago ; and I retired from the labor as too overwhelmingly ex- acting in all that related to the philosophy and theology of ...
... believe ) that he married an illegitimate daughter of Charles I. But this sketch was begun more than thirty years ago ; and I retired from the labor as too overwhelmingly ex- acting in all that related to the philosophy and theology of ...
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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 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. Myself I then perused, and limb by limb Surveyed, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigour led...
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 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 239 - Hence it is, that, like the professional rhetoricians of Athens, not seldom the Christian fathers, when urgently pressed by an antagonist equally mendacious and ignorant, could not resist the human instinct for employing arguments such as would baffle and confound the unprincipled opponent, rather than such as would satisfy the mature Christian. 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...
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 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 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 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 21 - ... to slumber till his death, that, at moments when he believed himself unobserved, he still wore the aspect of an impassioned lover. "He beheld A vision, and adored the thing he saw. Arabian fiction never filled the world With half the wonders that were wrought for him. Earth breathed in one great presence of the spring Her chamber window did surpass in glory The portals of the dawn.