Confessions of an English opium eaterA. & C. Black, 1878 |
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... sure that the knowledge of this fact may not have operated to blunt the suspicions of the Protestant churches . I do not mean that such a fact would have absolutely deafened Protestant ears to the grounds of suspicion when loudly ...
... sure that the knowledge of this fact may not have operated to blunt the suspicions of the Protestant churches . I do not mean that such a fact would have absolutely deafened Protestant ears to the grounds of suspicion when loudly ...
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... sure . In that category stood , beyond a doubt , a third of our guardians , the Rev. Samuel H. , who was at the time of my father's death a curate at some church ( I be- lieve ) in Manchester or in Salford . This gentleman re- Salford ...
... sure . In that category stood , beyond a doubt , a third of our guardians , the Rev. Samuel H. , who was at the time of my father's death a curate at some church ( I be- lieve ) in Manchester or in Salford . This gentleman re- Salford ...
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... sure to preach again ; " [ Even that was telling ; but then followed this thunder- peal ] " And as a dying man to dying men . " This couplet , which seemed to me equally for weight and for splendour like molten gold , laid bare another ...
... sure to preach again ; " [ Even that was telling ; but then followed this thunder- peal ] " And as a dying man to dying men . " This couplet , which seemed to me equally for weight and for splendour like molten gold , laid bare another ...
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... sure to preach again ; " and I no more made it a defect in my guardian that he wanted energies for com- bating evils now forgotten , than that he had not in pa- triotic fervour leaped into a gulf , like the fabulous Ro- man martyr ...
... sure to preach again ; " and I no more made it a defect in my guardian that he wanted energies for com- bating evils now forgotten , than that he had not in pa- triotic fervour leaped into a gulf , like the fabulous Ro- man martyr ...
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... sure that he could reach me in the very recesses of my dreams , where even a Pariah might look for rest ; so that the Sunday , which to man , and even to the brutes within his gates , offered an interval of rest , for me was signalised ...
... sure that he could reach me in the very recesses of my dreams , where even a Pariah might look for rest ; so that the Sunday , which to man , and even to the brutes within his gates , offered an interval of rest , for me was signalised ...
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.