Confessions of an English opium eaterA. & C. Black, 1878 |
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Página viii
... 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 invitation ab extra , I had called back ...
... 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 invitation ab extra , I had called back ...
Página xix
... suppose , free to receive an alteration , but beyond that time closed and sealed inexo- rably : such being supposed the circumstances , the humane reader will allow for the infirmity which even wilfully and consciously surrenders itself ...
... suppose , free to receive an alteration , but beyond that time closed and sealed inexo- rably : such being supposed the circumstances , the humane reader will allow for the infirmity which even wilfully and consciously surrenders itself ...
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... habit could have had time to form itself . Or suppose that I underrate the strength of the possible habit this tells equally in my favour ; and Coleridge was not entitled to forget in my case a plea remembered 8 CONFESSIONS OF AN.
... habit could have had time to form itself . Or suppose that I underrate the strength of the possible habit this tells equally in my favour ; and Coleridge was not entitled to forget in my case a plea remembered 8 CONFESSIONS OF AN.
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... suppose Monday to be invaded by some horrible intruder , visiter perhaps from a band of my guardian's poor relations , that in some undiscovered nook of Lancashire seemed in fancy to blacken all the fields , and suddenly at a single ...
... suppose Monday to be invaded by some horrible intruder , visiter perhaps from a band of my guardian's poor relations , that in some undiscovered nook of Lancashire seemed in fancy to blacken all the fields , and suddenly at a single ...
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... suppose ) the high northern latitude of this house . John , it seems , finished the feuds for precedency— not by legislating this way or that - but by cutting away the possibility of such feuds through the assistance of a round table ...
... suppose ) the high northern latitude of this house . John , it seems , finished the feuds for precedency— not by legislating this way or that - but by cutting away the possibility of such feuds through the assistance of a round table ...
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.