The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, 3 tomasA. and C. Black, 1890 - 472 psl. |
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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, 3 tomas Thomas De Quincey,David Masson Visos knygos peržiūra - 1897 |
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acquaintance Allan Cunningham Altrincham amongst believe called casuistry character Charles Lamb Church circumstances Coleridge Confessions connexion Cunningham darkness dreams edition Edward Irving effect England English experience expression eyes fact feelings felt French Grasmere Greek guardian happened Hazlitt heard heart Holyhead honour hope human intellectual interest Junius known labours Lamb's laudanum Lebanon less letter literary literature London Magazine looked Lord Manchester Grammar School Meantime mighty mind misanthropy mode moral morning nature never night notice object occasion once opium opium-eater original Oxford Oxford Street pain party perhaps person philosophic pleasure poor possible present principle question Quincey Quincey's reader reason regard respect seemed sense sensibility Sir Philip Francis Sir Walter Scott sleep spirit Street suddenly suffering suppose things thought tion truth Walking Stewart whilst whole word Wordsworth
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