De Quincey's Writings: Confessions of an English opium-eater, and Suspiria de profundis. [Stereotyped ed.] 1853Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 |
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... light , " and beginning to crimson with the radiant lustre of a cloudless July morning . I was firm and immovable in my purpose , but yet agitated by anticipation of uncer- tain danger and troubles ; and if I could have foreseen the ...
... light , " and beginning to crimson with the radiant lustre of a cloudless July morning . I was firm and immovable in my purpose , but yet agitated by anticipation of uncer- tain danger and troubles ; and if I could have foreseen the ...
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... light as mine ; as if my scholarship were sufficient evidence that I was of " gentle blood . " Thus I lived with them for three days , and great part of a fourth ; and , from the undiminished kindness which they continued to show me , I ...
... light as mine ; as if my scholarship were sufficient evidence that I was of " gentle blood . " Thus I lived with them for three days , and great part of a fourth ; and , from the undiminished kindness which they continued to show me , I ...
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... lights in the front drawing - room , I observed a domestic party , assembled , perhaps , at tea , and apparently cheerful and gay ; -marvellous contrast , in my eyes , to the darkness , cold , silence , and desola- tion , of that same ...
... lights in the front drawing - room , I observed a domestic party , assembled , perhaps , at tea , and apparently cheerful and gay ; -marvellous contrast , in my eyes , to the darkness , cold , silence , and desola- tion , of that same ...
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... light , and hear those airs played on a barrel - organ which years ago solaced me and my dear companion ( as I must always call her ) , I shed tears , and muse with myself at the mysterious dispensation which so suddenly and so ...
... light , and hear those airs played on a barrel - organ which years ago solaced me and my dear companion ( as I must always call her ) , I shed tears , and muse with myself at the mysterious dispensation which so suddenly and so ...
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... lights of Hounslow ( for , in spite of my wishes and efforts , I had fallen asleep again within two minutes from the time I had spoken to him ) , I found that he had put his arm round me to protect me from falling off ; and for the rest ...
... lights of Hounslow ( for , in spite of my wishes and efforts , I had fallen asleep again within two minutes from the time I had spoken to him ) , I found that he had put his arm round me to protect me from falling off ; and for the rest ...
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abstrac affecting amongst anguish ayah beatific beauty brain Brocken called casuistry child childhood clouds Confessions connected crasy creature darkness daugh death deep dreadful dreams earth English Eton Euripides evanescent experience expression eyes face faculty fear feelings forever grave Greek grief guardian hand to God happiness heard heart heaven hope horror hour human incident intellectual lady laudanum less Levana light lived London look Malay Merionethshire mighty mind misery mysterious namely nature never night Obeah occasion oftentimes once opium opium-eater Oxford-street painful palimpsest passed passion perhaps periphrasis person pleasure poor present reader reason seemed sense sister sleep solitary solitude sometimes Sophocles sorrow spirit stomach stood sublime suddenly suffering summer suppose SUSPIRIA DE PROFUNDIS sweet thee thing thou thought tion torpor truth utter vellum whilst Whitsunday whole words young youthful
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Página 193 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ...
Página 193 - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
Página 118 - I was buried for a thousand years in stone coffins, with mummies and sphinxes, in narrow chambers at the heart of eternal pyramids. I was kissed, with cancerous kisses, by crocodiles ; and laid, confounded with all unutterable slimy things, amongst reeds and Nilotic mud.
Página 66 - ... 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...
Página 118 - 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 124 - ... 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! And with a sigh, such as the caves of Hell sighed when the incestuous mother uttered the abhorred name of death, the sound was reverberated — everlasting farewells!...
Página 119 - Into these dreams only it was, with one or two slight exceptions, that any circumstances of physical horror entered. All before had been moral and spiritual terrors. But here the main agents were ugly birds, or snakes, or crocodiles, especially the last.
Página 111 - The sense of space, and in the end the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast, as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity.
Página 239 - The complaint is not entered by the registrar as grief; but that it is. Grief of that sort, and at that age, has killed more than ever have been counted amongst its martyrs. Therefore it is that Levana often communes with the powers that shake man's heart; therefore it is that she dotes upon grief.
Página 123 - I lay inactive. Then, like a chorus, the passion deepened. Some greater interest was at stake, — some mightier cause than ever yet the sword had pleaded or trumpet had proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms...