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Side 247
In fact , the evidences on behalf of Delphi as a princely house , that had indeed partaken in the decaying fortunes of Greece , but naturally was all the prouder from the irritating contrast of her great remembrances , are so plenti- ...
In fact , the evidences on behalf of Delphi as a princely house , that had indeed partaken in the decaying fortunes of Greece , but naturally was all the prouder from the irritating contrast of her great remembrances , are so plenti- ...
Side 252
The Oracles of Greece had lost their vigor and their palmy pride full two centuries before the Christian era . Histor- ical records show this à posteriori , whatever were the cause ; and the cause , which we will state here- after ...
The Oracles of Greece had lost their vigor and their palmy pride full two centuries before the Christian era . Histor- ical records show this à posteriori , whatever were the cause ; and the cause , which we will state here- after ...
Side 271
What was the relation of the Oracles ( and we would wish to be understood as speaking particularly of the Delphic Oracle ) to the credulity of Greece ? 2. What was the relation of that same Oracle to the absolute truth ? 3.
What was the relation of the Oracles ( and we would wish to be understood as speaking particularly of the Delphic Oracle ) to the credulity of Greece ? 2. What was the relation of that same Oracle to the absolute truth ? 3.
Side 274
Now , these sen- tentious and rather witty expressions gave wings and buoyancy to the public suspicions , so as to make them fly from one end of Greece to the other ; and they continued in lively remembrance for centuries .
Now , these sen- tentious and rather witty expressions gave wings and buoyancy to the public suspicions , so as to make them fly from one end of Greece to the other ; and they continued in lively remembrance for centuries .
Side 275
A case , however , much more inter- esting , because arising between two leading states of Greece , and in the century subsequent to the ruder age of Croesus ( who was about coeval with Pisistratus , 555 B. C. ) , is reported by ...
A case , however , much more inter- esting , because arising between two leading states of Greece , and in the century subsequent to the ruder age of Croesus ( who was about coeval with Pisistratus , 555 B. C. ) , is reported by ...
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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.
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 |