De Quincey's works, Volumen2J. Hogg, 1854 |
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... heard : but cer- tainly , when used by a systematic reader , it showed itself to have been systematically collected ; it stretched pretty equably through two centuries , viz . , from about 1600 to 1800 , and might perhaps amount to ...
... heard : but cer- tainly , when used by a systematic reader , it showed itself to have been systematically collected ; it stretched pretty equably through two centuries , viz . , from about 1600 to 1800 , and might perhaps amount to ...
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... heard it said by Scottish purists in this matter , that even Sir Walter Scott is chargeable with consi- derable licentiousness in the management of his colloquial Scotch . Yet , generally speaking , it bears the strongest impress of ...
... heard it said by Scottish purists in this matter , that even Sir Walter Scott is chargeable with consi- derable licentiousness in the management of his colloquial Scotch . Yet , generally speaking , it bears the strongest impress of ...
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... heard such verdicts passed upon the personal attractions of both , but especially Lady Massey , as tended greatly to soothe the feelings of Lord Massey . It is singular that Lady Massey universally carried 20 AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES .
... heard such verdicts passed upon the personal attractions of both , but especially Lady Massey , as tended greatly to soothe the feelings of Lord Massey . It is singular that Lady Massey universally carried 20 AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES .
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... heard that the treatment pros- pered ; but the man who reported this added , that by original constitution they were as strong as Meux's dray- horses ; and thus , after all , they may simply illustrate the old logical dictum ascribed to ...
... heard that the treatment pros- pered ; but the man who reported this added , that by original constitution they were as strong as Meux's dray- horses ; and thus , after all , they may simply illustrate the old logical dictum ascribed to ...
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... by attending to its Greek designation , viz . , porphyry - coloured : since , said he , porphyry is always of the same colour . Not at all . Porphyry , I have heard , runs desire , and PURPLE light of love . " It LAXTON . 35.
... by attending to its Greek designation , viz . , porphyry - coloured : since , said he , porphyry is always of the same colour . Not at all . Porphyry , I have heard , runs desire , and PURPLE light of love . " It LAXTON . 35.
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Página 223 - My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Página 55 - 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.
Página 306 - The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
Página 298 - But how can He expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all...
Página 237 - She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view...
Página 142 - It would be directing the reader's attention too much to myself if I were to linger upon this, the greatest event in the unfolding of my own mind. Let me say, in one word, that, at a period when neither the one nor the other writer was valued by the public — both having a long warfare to accomplish of contumely and ridicule before they could rise into their present estimation — I found in these poems "the ray of a new morning," and an absolute revelation of untrodden worlds teeming with power...
Página 102 - The popular harangue, the tart reply, The logic, and the wisdom, and the wit, And the loud laugh — I long to know them all ; I burn to set th' imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'rance once again.
Página 308 - The Blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares, and delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy.
Página 250 - That kill the bloom before its time; And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.
Página 240 - ... the exceeding sympathy, always ready and always profound, by which she made all that one could tell her, all that one could describe, all that one could quote from a foreign author, reverberate, as it were, a plusieurs reprises, to one's own feelings, by the manifest impression it made upon hers.