Literary Reminiscences: From the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater, Volumen1Ticknor and Fields, 1861 |
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... felt , lest any rude echoes might be roused . An ancient housekeeper was equally venerable , equally gentle in her deportment , quiet in her movements , and inaudible in her tread . One or other of these upper domestics , for the others ...
... felt , lest any rude echoes might be roused . An ancient housekeeper was equally venerable , equally gentle in her deportment , quiet in her movements , and inaudible in her tread . One or other of these upper domestics , for the others ...
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... felt , and little from immediate sympathy with the author ; and his animation was artificial , though his courtesy , which prompted the effort , was the truest and most unaffected possible . - 6 more The connection between us must have ...
... felt , and little from immediate sympathy with the author ; and his animation was artificial , though his courtesy , which prompted the effort , was the truest and most unaffected possible . - 6 more The connection between us must have ...
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... felt the warm pressure of his hand , saw dimly the outline of his venerable figure , more dimly his saintly counte- nance , and quitted that gracious presence , which , in this world , I was destined no more to revisit . The night was ...
... felt the warm pressure of his hand , saw dimly the outline of his venerable figure , more dimly his saintly counte- nance , and quitted that gracious presence , which , in this world , I was destined no more to revisit . The night was ...
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... felt of him in that relation , not so much as of a feeble man , but absolutely as of a Sporus , ( that was his very expres- sion , ) or a man emasculated . Right or wrong in his views , he showed the most painful defect of good sense ...
... felt of him in that relation , not so much as of a feeble man , but absolutely as of a Sporus , ( that was his very expres- sion , ) or a man emasculated . Right or wrong in his views , he showed the most painful defect of good sense ...
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... felt . The public of that day felt with regard to Burns exactly LITERARY NOVITIATE . 33.
... felt . The public of that day felt with regard to Burns exactly LITERARY NOVITIATE . 33.
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Literary Reminiscences: From the Autobiography of an English Opium ..., Volumen1 Thomas De Quincey Vista de fragmentos - 1851 |
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Página 235 - My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Página 235 - I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Página 353 - But how can He expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all...
Página 362 - The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
Página 275 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Página 348 - When she I loved was strong and gay, And like a rose in June, I to her cottage bent my way, Beneath the evening Moon. Upon the Moon I fixed my eye, All over the wide lea : My Horse trudged on — and we drew nigh Those paths so dear to me. And now we reached the orchard plot ; And, as we climbed the hill, Towards the roof of Lucy's cot The Moon descended still.
Página 126 - There need not schools, nor the Professor's chair, Though these be good, true wisdom to impart; He, who has not enough for these to spare Of time, or gold, may yet amend his heart, And teach his soul, by brooks and rivers fair: Nature is always wise in every part.
Página 235 - O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live; Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud...
Página 306 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover, and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired...
Página 162 - Coleridge's essay is prefaced by a few words, in which, aware of his coincidence with Schelling, he declares his willingness to acknowledge himself indebted to so great a man, in any case where the truth would allow him to do so ; but in this particular case, insisting on the impossibility that he could have borrowed arguments which he had first seen some years after he had thought out the whole hypothesis proprio marte...