Confessions of an English opium eaterA. & C. Black, 1878 |
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Página xix
... be extended to acts aiming at the bare relief of pain , or shall be restricted to such as aim at the excitement of superfluous pleasure . Guilt , therefore , I do not acknowledge ; and iv ORIGINAL PREFACE IN THE YEAR 1821 .
... be extended to acts aiming at the bare relief of pain , or shall be restricted to such as aim at the excitement of superfluous pleasure . Guilt , therefore , I do not acknowledge ; and iv ORIGINAL PREFACE IN THE YEAR 1821 .
Página xix
... pain to any one person concerned . All the cases , except , perhaps , that of Wil- berforce ( about which I have at this moment some slight lingering doubts ) , were matters of notoriety to large circles of friends . It is due to Mr ...
... pain to any one person concerned . All the cases , except , perhaps , that of Wil- berforce ( about which I have at this moment some slight lingering doubts ) , were matters of notoriety to large circles of friends . It is due to Mr ...
Página xix
... pain only as a secondary and distant effect following out from the cure of the ailment ; but those only we call ano ... pains in the stomach , we were ultimately to banish those pains , this would not warrant us in calling such tonics by ...
... pain only as a secondary and distant effect following out from the cure of the ailment ; but those only we call ano ... pains in the stomach , we were ultimately to banish those pains , this would not warrant us in calling such tonics by ...
Página xix
... pain ; and so much mightier than any other , that I should think , in a Pagan land , supposing it to have been adequately made known * through experimental ac- quaintance with its revolutionary magic , opium would have had altars and ...
... pain ; and so much mightier than any other , that I should think , in a Pagan land , supposing it to have been adequately made known * through experimental ac- quaintance with its revolutionary magic , opium would have had altars and ...
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... pain the severest , that I first resorted to opium ; and pre- cisely that same torment it is , or some variety of that torment , which drives most people to make acquaintance with that same insidious remedy . Such was the fact ; such by ...
... pain the severest , that I first resorted to opium ; and pre- cisely that same torment it is , or some variety of that torment , which drives most people to make acquaintance with that same insidious remedy . Such was the fact ; such by ...
Términos y frases comunes
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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.