De Quincey's works, Volumen2J. Hogg, 1854 |
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... mother ( unaware of the tricks he had practised upon me ) had by letter instructed me to give . He was a mere savage boy from the central bogs of Connaught , and , to the great amusement of Lord Westport , he persisted in calling me ...
... mother ( unaware of the tricks he had practised upon me ) had by letter instructed me to give . He was a mere savage boy from the central bogs of Connaught , and , to the great amusement of Lord Westport , he persisted in calling me ...
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... mother's family . Both served for many years in India : the first in the Company's army , the other upon the staff of the King's forces in that coun- try . Each , about the same time , made a visit to England , and each of them , I ...
... mother's family . Both served for many years in India : the first in the Company's army , the other upon the staff of the King's forces in that coun- try . Each , about the same time , made a visit to England , and each of them , I ...
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... mother to the Colonel's daughter . Chiefly on Miss Watson's account it was at first that she extended her maternal ... mothers had been long dead - not consciously seen by either ; and their fathers , not surviving their last departure ...
... mother to the Colonel's daughter . Chiefly on Miss Watson's account it was at first that she extended her maternal ... mothers had been long dead - not consciously seen by either ; and their fathers , not surviving their last departure ...
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... mother's earliest friends as Mrs Harvey , and in days when my mother had opportunities of doing her seasonable services . And as there were three special advantages which adorned my mother , and which ranked in Mrs Schreiber's estimate ...
... mother's earliest friends as Mrs Harvey , and in days when my mother had opportunities of doing her seasonable services . And as there were three special advantages which adorned my mother , and which ranked in Mrs Schreiber's estimate ...
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... mother . Viewing my mother , therefore , as a pure model of an English matron , and feeling for her , besides , a deeper sentiment of friendship and affection than for any- body else on her visiting list , it was natural enough that she ...
... mother . Viewing my mother , therefore , as a pure model of an English matron , and feeling for her , besides , a deeper sentiment of friendship and affection than for any- body else on her visiting list , it was natural enough that she ...
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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.