Confessions of an English opium eaterA. & C. Black, 1878 |
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Página xix
... happened to Mr Philosopher Dash that his burn- ing light , alas ! was extinguished irrecoverably in the general mêlée . Meantime , there was no excuse whatever for this absurd interference such as might have been alleged in any ...
... happened to Mr Philosopher Dash that his burn- ing light , alas ! was extinguished irrecoverably in the general mêlée . Meantime , there was no excuse whatever for this absurd interference such as might have been alleged in any ...
Página xix
... happened , that not so properly correction and retrench- ment were called for , as integration of what had been left imperfect , or amplification of what , from the first , had been insufficiently expanded . With these views , it would ...
... happened , that not so properly correction and retrench- ment were called for , as integration of what had been left imperfect , or amplification of what , from the first , had been insufficiently expanded . With these views , it would ...
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... have prevailed . But it happened that the elder section of the school - those on the brink of manhood , and by incalculable degrees the more scholar- like section , all who read , meditated , or ENGLISH OPIUM EATER . 37.
... have prevailed . But it happened that the elder section of the school - those on the brink of manhood , and by incalculable degrees the more scholar- like section , all who read , meditated , or ENGLISH OPIUM EATER . 37.
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... happened luckily that there was no playground , not the smallest , at- tached to the school ; that is , none was attached to the upper or grammar school . But there was also , and resting on the same liberal endowment , a lower school ...
... happened luckily that there was no playground , not the smallest , at- tached to the school ; that is , none was attached to the upper or grammar school . But there was also , and resting on the same liberal endowment , a lower school ...
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... happened that most of us sought for the ordinary sub- jects of our conversational discussions in literature- viz . , in our own native literature . Here it was that I learned to feel a deep respect for my new school - fellows : deep it ...
... happened that most of us sought for the ordinary sub- jects of our conversational discussions in literature- viz . , in our own native literature . Here it was that I learned to feel a deep respect for my new school - fellows : deep it ...
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.