Confessions of an English Opium-eaterW. Smith, 1847 - 49 páginas |
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... looked through them . Her voice was wonderfully full of melodious inflexions , but even in its hap- piest utterance had a constant tendency to slide into sad modulations . The outline of her slight figure swayed gracefully to every ...
... looked through them . Her voice was wonderfully full of melodious inflexions , but even in its hap- piest utterance had a constant tendency to slide into sad modulations . The outline of her slight figure swayed gracefully to every ...
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... looked at the reflection of himself in the mountain pool . Instead of hastening to Enone , when they had by any chance been separated for a few hours , he often lingered long , to gaze at the distant towers of Ilium , glittering in the ...
... looked at the reflection of himself in the mountain pool . Instead of hastening to Enone , when they had by any chance been separated for a few hours , he often lingered long , to gaze at the distant towers of Ilium , glittering in the ...
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... looked very strangely . But , within him- self , he pondered much upon what she had said concerning the beautiful princess . Some days after , when he and Enone were out on the hill- side , he told her what she had said of the motion of ...
... looked very strangely . But , within him- self , he pondered much upon what she had said concerning the beautiful princess . Some days after , when he and Enone were out on the hill- side , he told her what she had said of the motion of ...
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... looked out through a transparent veil of melancholy ; for she felt the estrangement of her beloved Corythus , though she knew it not . In fact , his wayward behaviour attracted the attention of even good old Arisba . Moody and silent ...
... looked out through a transparent veil of melancholy ; for she felt the estrangement of her beloved Corythus , though she knew it not . In fact , his wayward behaviour attracted the attention of even good old Arisba . Moody and silent ...
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... looked upon him since he left her , in rustic garb , without pausing to look back upon her . Now , he wore sparkling sandals , and a mantle of Tyrian purple , with large clasps of gold . His bride was clothed in embroidered Sido- nian ...
... looked upon him since he left her , in rustic garb , without pausing to look back upon her . Now , he wore sparkling sandals , and a mantle of Tyrian purple , with large clasps of gold . His bride was clothed in embroidered Sido- nian ...
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Alerik answered arms asked beautiful beloved Big Elk BREMER'S bright brother castle chaplain CHAPTER CHARLES LAMB child clarionets confess Corythus countenance dark dear death deep dreams Enone Ephesus exclaimed expression eyes face fair lady father feel fell felt flowers Folko FUGITIVE VERSES Gabriele gazed hand handsome happy head heard heart heaven Hilda human Ilium Indian Joannetti journey kissed knew lady laudanum laugh light Little Master looked marriage Menelaus ment mind Montfaucon morning mother Mount Ida mountains nature neighbouring never night noble Norway once opium opium-eater pale passed pleasure poor Ralph reader replied rose seemed silent Sintram sleep smile song soon soul sound spirit Steinburg stood strange suffering sweet tears tenderness thee things thou thought tion tones took Turin voice wigwam wild wish woman words XAVIER DE MAISTRE young youth
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Página 68 - ... of the world within me ! 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, at once discovered : happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat...
Página 73 - I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by paroquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas, and was fixed, for centuries, at the summit, or in secret rooms: I was the idol; I was the priest; I was worshipped; I was sacrificed.
Página 69 - Of these I have about five thousand, collected gradually since my eighteenth year. Therefore, painter, put as many as you can into this room. Make it populous with books, and, furthermore, paint me a good fire; and furniture plain and modest, befitting the unpretending cottage of a scholar.
Página 72 - Asiatic things, of their institutions, histories — above all, of their mythologies, &c. — is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A young Chinese seems to me an antediluvian man renewed. Even Englishmen, though not bred in any knowledge of such institutions, cannot but shudder at the mystic sublimity of castes that have flowed apart, and refused to mix, through such immemorial tracts of time...
Página 72 - Fuseli in modern times, that they thought proper to eat raw meat for the sake of obtaining splendid dreams: how much better for such a purpose to have eaten opium, which yet I do not remember that any poet is recorded to have done, except • the dramatist Shadwell : and in ancient days, j Homer is, I think, rightly reputed to have known the virtues of opium.
Página 69 - ... to its effects. But this is not so : it is by the re-action of the mind upon the notices of the ear, (the matter coming by the senses, the form from the mind) that the pleasure is constructed : and therefore it is that people of equally good ear differ so much in this point from one another.
Página 69 - I am surprised to see people overlook it, and think it matter of congratulation that winter is going, or, if coming, is not likely to be a severe one On the contrary, I put up a petition, annually, for as much snow, hail, frost, or storm of one kind or other, as the skies can possibly afford us.
Página 70 - I feared to exercise this faculty ; for, as Midas turned all things to gold, that yet baffled his hopes and defrauded his human desires, so whatsoever things capable of being visually represented I did but think of in the darkness, immediately shaped themselves into phantoms of the eye...