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Side 46
So had once thought Colonel Watson , who happened to be in England at that period ; and to the charming widow this man of war propounded his hand in marriage . This hand , this martial hand , for reason inexplicable to me , Mrs. Harvey ...
So had once thought Colonel Watson , who happened to be in England at that period ; and to the charming widow this man of war propounded his hand in marriage . This hand , this martial hand , for reason inexplicable to me , Mrs. Harvey ...
Side 64
Simply to have commenced his answer in Greek would have sufficiently met the comic expectation then thrilling the house ; but , when it happened that this Greek ( so suitable to the occasion ) was also the one sole morsel of Greek that ...
Simply to have commenced his answer in Greek would have sufficiently met the comic expectation then thrilling the house ; but , when it happened that this Greek ( so suitable to the occasion ) was also the one sole morsel of Greek that ...
Side 79
And thus it has happened that the air of marvellous- ness , which seems connected with the choice and preferences of Herodotus , is in reality the natural gift of his position . Culling from a field of many nations and many generations ...
And thus it has happened that the air of marvellous- ness , which seems connected with the choice and preferences of Herodotus , is in reality the natural gift of his position . Culling from a field of many nations and many generations ...
Side 80
... that strange enlargement of my experience which had happened to me within the last three months . I had seen , and become familiarly ac- quainted with , a young man , who had in a manner died to every object around him , had died an ...
... that strange enlargement of my experience which had happened to me within the last three months . I had seen , and become familiarly ac- quainted with , a young man , who had in a manner died to every object around him , had died an ...
Side 89
He took up his abode , therefore , at Laxton during his earliest visit ; and this happened to coincide with that particular visit of my own during which I was initiating Lady Carbery into the mysteries of New Testament ...
He took up his abode , therefore , at Laxton during his earliest visit ; and this happened to coincide with that particular visit of my own during which I was initiating Lady Carbery into the mysteries of New Testament ...
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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 |