The Works of Thomas De Quincey, "The English Opium Eater": Confessions of an English opium-eaterA. and C. Black, 1878 |
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... heard , indeed , that some persons , hearing of this republication , had interpreted the case thus : within the last four or five years , a practice has arisen amongst authors of gathering together into volumes their own scattered ...
... heard , indeed , that some persons , hearing of this republication , had interpreted the case thus : within the last four or five years , a practice has arisen amongst authors of gathering together into volumes their own scattered ...
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... heard attributed to any other man , having un- twisted , almost to its final links , the chain which fettered me . Such a self - conquest may reasonably be set off in counterbalance to any kind or degree of self - indulgence . Not to ...
... heard attributed to any other man , having un- twisted , almost to its final links , the chain which fettered me . Such a self - conquest may reasonably be set off in counterbalance to any kind or degree of self - indulgence . Not to ...
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... heard that his daily ration was 34 grains ( or about 850 drops of laudanum ) , divided into four portions , and administered to him at regular intervals of six hours by a confidential valet . * Who is Mr Dash , the philosopher ? Really ...
... heard that his daily ration was 34 grains ( or about 850 drops of laudanum ) , divided into four portions , and administered to him at regular intervals of six hours by a confidential valet . * Who is Mr Dash , the philosopher ? Really ...
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... heard of , and under no coercion whatever that he has any- where explained to us . A slave he was to this potent drug not less abject than Caliban to Prospero - his detested and yet despotic master . Like Caliban , he frets his very ...
... heard of , and under no coercion whatever that he has any- where explained to us . A slave he was to this potent drug not less abject than Caliban to Prospero - his detested and yet despotic master . Like Caliban , he frets his very ...
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... of Argos , could be heard to the centre of Mycenæ ; and by a gourmand , if the dinner promised to be specially good , in the re- moter suburb . were rich , and came to church in carriages : ENGLISH OPIUM - EATER . 19.
... of Argos , could be heard to the centre of Mycenæ ; and by a gourmand , if the dinner promised to be specially good , in the re- moter suburb . were rich , and came to church in carriages : ENGLISH OPIUM - EATER . 19.
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.