Confessions of an English opium eaterA. & C. Black, 1878 |
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Página v
... give sometimes a character of ab- solute novelty . Once , therefore , at home , with the allow- ance for the changes here indicated , and once in America , may be said that these writings have been in some sense published . But ...
... give sometimes a character of ab- solute novelty . Once , therefore , at home , with the allow- ance for the changes here indicated , and once in America , may be said that these writings have been in some sense published . But ...
Página viii
... gives you the benefit of its own separate audience , that might else never have heard your name . On the other hand , in such a case , the journal secures to you the special enmity of its own peculiar antagonists . These papers , for ...
... gives you the benefit of its own separate audience , that might else never have heard your name . On the other hand , in such a case , the journal secures to you the special enmity of its own peculiar antagonists . These papers , for ...
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... give to it an ambitious title . Still I felt that the meanest of these suggestions merited a valuation : derelicts they were , not in the sense of things wilfully abandoned by my predecessors on that road , but in the sense of things ...
... give to it an ambitious title . Still I felt that the meanest of these suggestions merited a valuation : derelicts they were , not in the sense of things wilfully abandoned by my predecessors on that road , but in the sense of things ...
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... gives way before a common inter- course in pleasure . As it was , what with our confedera- tion through house - membership , what with our reciprocal sympathies in the problems suggested by books , we had become a club of boys ( amongst ...
... gives way before a common inter- course in pleasure . As it was , what with our confedera- tion through house - membership , what with our reciprocal sympathies in the problems suggested by books , we had become a club of boys ( amongst ...
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... give less than one guinea each : so much , therefore , I left in the hands of G- the most honourable and up- right of boys ; since to have given it myself would have been prematurely to publish my purpose . These three guineas deducted ...
... give less than one guinea each : so much , therefore , I left in the hands of G- the most honourable and up- right of boys ; since to have given it myself would have been prematurely to publish my purpose . These three guineas deducted ...
Términos y frases comunes
accident amongst anodyne anxiety Arundel marbles Bangor boys Brunell called century character Chester Christian Coleridge Confessions daily darkness dreams drug effect England English Essenism Eton evangelist evil eyes fact fancy feelings friends Grasmere Greek guardian guineas habit happened heard Holyhead honour hope human interest Isaac Milner Josephus known labours lady laudanum Lawson Lebanon less letter light literature London looked Lord Lord Bacon malady Malay Manchester Manchester Grammar School Meantime ment mighty miles moral morning naturally necessity never night once opium opium-eater Oswestry overmastering Oxford Street pain perhaps period person pleasure poor possible post-office Priory Pyrrha question racter reader reason regarded scene secondly secret seemed sense simply sion sleep solitary sometimes spirit stage stood suddenly suffering suppose thing THOMAS DE QUINCEY thou thought tion truth whilst whole word Wordsworth
Pasajes populares
Página 284 - Then did the little maid reply, "Seven boys and girls are we; Two of us in the churchyard lie Beneath the churchyard tree.
Página 191 - That my pains had vanished, was now a trifle in my eyes : — this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me — in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a ^UMO-/ nviyStt for all human woes: here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages...
Página 208 - O just, subtle, and all-conquering opium! that, to the hearts of rich and poor alike, for the wounds that will never heal, and for the pangs of grief that "tempt the spirit to rebel," bringest an assuaging balm — eloquent opium!
Página 267 - ... same, and not older. Her looks were tranquil, but with unusual solemnity of expression; and I now gazed upon her with some awe; but suddenly her countenance grew dim, and, turning to the mountains, I perceived...
Página 284 - And often after sunset, sir, When it is light and fair, I take my little porringer And eat my supper there.
Página 257 - I am convinced is true; viz., that the dread book of account which the Scriptures speak of is in fact the mind itself of each individual.
Página 203 - ... no longer painful to dwell upon ; but the detail of its incidents removed, or blended in some hazy abstraction ; and its passions exalted, spiritualized and sublimed.
Página 255 - I seemed every night to descend, not metaphorically, but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended.
Página 258 - Romanus; especially when the consul is introduced in his military character. I mean to say that the words king — sultan — regent, &c., or any other titles of those who embody in their own persons the collective majesty of a great people, had less power over my reverential feelings.
Página 260 - Piranesi both are lost in the upper gloom of the hall. With the same power of endless growth and selfreproduction did my architecture proceed in dreams.