Confessions of an English opium eaterA. & C. Black, 1878 |
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... sleep of endless reverie , and of dreamy abstraction from life and its realities . Whether serviceable or not , however , the connection between my guardian and myself was now drawing to its close . Some months after my eleventh birth ...
... sleep of endless reverie , and of dreamy abstraction from life and its realities . Whether serviceable or not , however , the connection between my guardian and myself was now drawing to its close . Some months after my eleventh birth ...
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... - lais in 1802 ( see his sonnets ) , looking back through thirteen years to the great era of social resurrection , in 1788-9 , from a sleep of ten cen- turies . hills , already I breathed gales of the everlasting moun- ΤΟ CONFESSIONS OF AN.
... - lais in 1802 ( see his sonnets ) , looking back through thirteen years to the great era of social resurrection , in 1788-9 , from a sleep of ten cen- turies . hills , already I breathed gales of the everlasting moun- ΤΟ CONFESSIONS OF AN.
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... sleeping , escaped all moral arrest and detention ? Simply because vain it were to offer a nest for the reception of some ... sleep . And these two grandeurs , the mighty sentiment and the mighty spectacle , are by Christianity married ...
... sleeping , escaped all moral arrest and detention ? Simply because vain it were to offer a nest for the reception of some ... sleep . And these two grandeurs , the mighty sentiment and the mighty spectacle , are by Christianity married ...
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... sleeping na- tions ; perils from even worse forms of darkness shrouded within the recesses of blind human hearts ; perils from temptations weaving unseen snares for our footing ; perils from the limitations of our own misleading ...
... sleeping na- tions ; perils from even worse forms of darkness shrouded within the recesses of blind human hearts ; perils from temptations weaving unseen snares for our footing ; perils from the limitations of our own misleading ...
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... sleep , when it did come , peculiarly deep . Ga- thering courage from the silence , the groom hoisted his burden again , and accomplished the remainder of his de- scent without accident . I waited until I saw the trunk placed on a ...
... sleep , when it did come , peculiarly deep . Ga- thering courage from the silence , the groom hoisted his burden again , and accomplished the remainder of his de- scent without accident . I waited until I saw the trunk placed on a ...
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.