Memorials: And Other Papers, Bind 1Ticknor & Fields, 1856 |
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Side xiv
... facts . In the for- mer class stand the admirable novels of De Foe ; and , on a lower range , within the same category , the inimitable " Vicar of Wake- field ; " " upon which last novel , without at all designing it , I once became the ...
... facts . In the for- mer class stand the admirable novels of De Foe ; and , on a lower range , within the same category , the inimitable " Vicar of Wake- field ; " " upon which last novel , without at all designing it , I once became the ...
Side xv
... facts . Then , as to the objection that few people or none have an experience presenting such uniformity of perilous adventure , a little closer attention shows that the experience in this case is not uniform ; and so far otherwise ...
... facts . Then , as to the objection that few people or none have an experience presenting such uniformity of perilous adventure , a little closer attention shows that the experience in this case is not uniform ; and so far otherwise ...
Side xvi
... fact is most remarkable , that the per- son who originally headed the incredulous party , namely , Senor de Ferrer , a learned Castilian , was the very same who finally authenti- cated , by documentary evidence , the extraordinary ...
... fact is most remarkable , that the per- son who originally headed the incredulous party , namely , Senor de Ferrer , a learned Castilian , was the very same who finally authenti- cated , by documentary evidence , the extraordinary ...
Side 23
... fact , far out of symmetry with the house , which , at that time , was elegant and comfortable , but not splendid . As usual in English establishments , all the appointments were complete , and carried to the same point of exquisite ...
... fact , far out of symmetry with the house , which , at that time , was elegant and comfortable , but not splendid . As usual in English establishments , all the appointments were complete , and carried to the same point of exquisite ...
Side 33
... que la notre . This fact is a feature in our national pretensions that could ever have been regarded doubtfully merely through insufficient knowledge . Dr. Johnson , indeed , made it the distinguishing merit VISIT TO LAXTON . 333.
... que la notre . This fact is a feature in our national pretensions that could ever have been regarded doubtfully merely through insufficient knowledge . Dr. Johnson , indeed , made it the distinguishing merit VISIT TO LAXTON . 333.
Almindelige termer og sætninger
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Populære passager
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.
Bibliografiske oplysninger
| Titel | Memorials: And Other Papers, Bind 1 Bind 19–20 af De Quincey's writings Memorials: And Other Papers, Thomas De Quincey |
| Forfatter | Thomas De Quincey |
| Udgiver | Ticknor & Fields, 1856 |
| Oprindeligt fra | New York Public Library |
| Digitaliseret | 5. jan 2007 |
| Eksporter henvisning | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |