The Works of Thomas De Quincey, "The English Opium Eater": Confessions of an English opium-eaterA. and C. Black, 1878 |
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... efforts to publish itself , still it remains , for the world of possible readers , " as good as manuscript ? " Not to insist , however , upon any romantic rigour in constructing this idea , and abiding by the ordinary standard of what ...
... efforts to publish itself , still it remains , for the world of possible readers , " as good as manuscript ? " Not to insist , however , upon any romantic rigour in constructing this idea , and abiding by the ordinary standard of what ...
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... effort , by a vagrant but thoughtful mind ; through the coercion of its theme , sometimes it became ambitious , but I did not give to it an ambitious title . Still I felt that the meanest of these suggestions merited a valuation ...
... effort , by a vagrant but thoughtful mind ; through the coercion of its theme , sometimes it became ambitious , but I did not give to it an ambitious title . Still I felt that the meanest of these suggestions merited a valuation ...
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... effort , was earnest to the last . For my own part , without breach of truth or modesty , I may affirm that my life has been , on the whole , the life of a philosopher : from my birth , I was made an intellectual creature ; and ...
... effort , was earnest to the last . For my own part , without breach of truth or modesty , I may affirm that my life has been , on the whole , the life of a philosopher : from my birth , I was made an intellectual creature ; and ...
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... ( un- expectedly to myself ) arise for claiming it . I have thus made the reader acquainted with one out of two cross currents that tended to thwart my efforts for improving this little work . There was , meantime , PREFATORY NOTICE . xiii.
... ( un- expectedly to myself ) arise for claiming it . I have thus made the reader acquainted with one out of two cross currents that tended to thwart my efforts for improving this little work . There was , meantime , PREFATORY NOTICE . xiii.
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... efforts . All along I had relied upon a crowning grace , which I had reserved for the final pages of this volume , in a succession of some twenty or twenty - five dreams and noon - day visions , which had arisen under the latter stages ...
... efforts . All along I had relied upon a crowning grace , which I had reserved for the final pages of this volume , in a succession of some twenty or twenty - five dreams and noon - day visions , which had arisen under the latter stages ...
Términos y frases comunes
accident amongst anodyne anxiety Arundel marbles Bangor 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 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 287 - And when the ground was white with snow, And I could run and slide, My brother John was forced to go, And he lies by her side.
Página 273 - Then came sudden alarms: hurryings to and fro: trepidations of innumerable fugitives, I knew not whether from the good cause or the bad: darkness and lights: tempest and human faces: and at last, with the sense that all was lost, female forms, and the features that were worth all the world to me, and but a moment allowed, — and clasped hands, and heart-breaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells!
Página 259 - 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 re-ascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had re-ascended.
Página 195 - 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 272 - I had the power, if I could raise myself, to will it; and yet again had not the power, for the weight of twenty Atlantics was upon me, or the oppression of inexpiable guilt. 'Deeper than ever plummet sounded,
Página 207 - But this is a subject foreign to my present purposes ; it is sufficient to say, that a chorus, &c., of elaborate harmony, displayed before me, as in a piece of arraswork, the whole of my past life, — not as if recalled by an act of memory, but as if present and incarnated in the music ; 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 288 - Then did the little maid reply, "Seven boys and girls are we; Two of us in the churchyard lie Beneath the churchyard tree.
Página 288 - My stockings there I often knit My 'kerchief there I hem ; And there upon the ground I sit — I sit and sing to them. "And often after sunset, sir, When it is light and fair, I take my little porringer And eat my supper there.
Página 261 - 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 262 - Livy, whom I confess that I prefer, both for style and matter, to any other of the Roman historians ; and I had often felt as most solemn and appalling sounds, and most emphatically representative of the majesty of the Roman people, the two words so often occurring in Livy — Consul Romanus ; especially when the consul is introduced in his military character.