Confessions of an English opium eaterA. & C. Black, 1878 |
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... ALL HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE FOURTH EDITION IN SIXTEEN VOLUMES EDINBURGH ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK MDCCCLXXVIII [ The right of Translation is reserved . ] OF THE TAYLOR UNIVERSITY INSTITUTION 23 JUL . 1935 OF THE WORKS.
... ALL HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE FOURTH EDITION IN SIXTEEN VOLUMES EDINBURGH ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK MDCCCLXXVIII [ The right of Translation is reserved . ] OF THE TAYLOR UNIVERSITY INSTITUTION 23 JUL . 1935 OF THE WORKS.
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... LITERATURE - OLIVER GOLDSMITH- ON WORDSWORTH'S POETRY - JOHN KEATS - HOMER AND THE HOMERIDAE . VOLUME VI . JUDAS ISCARIOT - RICHARD BENTLEY - CICERO- SECRET SOCIETIES - MILTON . VOLUME VII . WALKING STEWART - THE MARQUESS WELLES- LEY ...
... LITERATURE - OLIVER GOLDSMITH- ON WORDSWORTH'S POETRY - JOHN KEATS - HOMER AND THE HOMERIDAE . VOLUME VI . JUDAS ISCARIOT - RICHARD BENTLEY - CICERO- SECRET SOCIETIES - MILTON . VOLUME VII . WALKING STEWART - THE MARQUESS WELLES- LEY ...
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... may never reproduce , but which every generation should study as one of the marvels of English literature . " EDINBURGH , January 1862 . Quarterly Review , July 1860 . PREFACE TO THE WORKS . THE miscellaneous writings , which.
... may never reproduce , but which every generation should study as one of the marvels of English literature . " EDINBURGH , January 1862 . Quarterly Review , July 1860 . PREFACE TO THE WORKS . THE miscellaneous writings , which.
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... literature . Upon that suggestion , they suppose me suddenly to have remembered that I also had made such contributions ; that mine might be entitled to their chance as well as those of others ; and , accordingly , that on such a slight ...
... literature . Upon that suggestion , they suppose me suddenly to have remembered that I also had made such contributions ; that mine might be entitled to their chance as well as those of others ; and , accordingly , that on such a slight ...
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... literature . But a far greater difficulty lay in the labour ( absolutely insurmountable to myself ) of bringing together from so many quarters the scattered materials of the collection . This labour , most fortunately , was suddenly ...
... literature . But a far greater difficulty lay in the labour ( absolutely insurmountable to myself ) of bringing together from so many quarters the scattered materials of the collection . This labour , most fortunately , was suddenly ...
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
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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.