Confessions of an English Opium-eater: And Suspiria de ProfundisTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 - 272 psl. |
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... child , and had latterly treated me with great distinction , requesting that she would " lend " me five guineas . For upwards of a week no answer came ; and I was beginning to despond , when , at length , a servant put into my hands a ...
... child , and had latterly treated me with great distinction , requesting that she would " lend " me five guineas . For upwards of a week no answer came ; and I was beginning to despond , when , at length , a servant put into my hands a ...
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... children , carry about with them , in their very titles , a sufficient notification of their rank . Nay , their very names ( and this applies also to the children of many untitled houses ) are often , to the English ear , adequate ...
... children , carry about with them , in their very titles , a sufficient notification of their rank . Nay , their very names ( and this applies also to the children of many untitled houses ) are often , to the English ear , adequate ...
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... children of bishops carry about with them an austere and repulsive air , indicative of claims not generally acknowledged , a sort of noli me tangere manner , nervously apprehensive of too familiar approach , and shrinking with the ...
... children of bishops carry about with them an austere and repulsive air , indicative of claims not generally acknowledged , a sort of noli me tangere manner , nervously apprehensive of too familiar approach , and shrinking with the ...
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... child , apparently ten years old ; but she seemed hunger- bitten ; and sufferings of that sort often make children look older than they are . From this forlorn child I learned , that she had slept and lived there alone , for some time ...
... child , apparently ten years old ; but she seemed hunger- bitten ; and sufferings of that sort often make children look older than they are . From this forlorn child I learned , that she had slept and lived there alone , for some time ...
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And Suspiria de Profundis Thomas De Quincey. poor child crept close to me for warmth , and for security against her ghostly enemies . When I was not more than usually ill , I took her into my arms , so that , in general , she was ...
And Suspiria de Profundis Thomas De Quincey. poor child crept close to me for warmth , and for security against her ghostly enemies . When I was not more than usually ill , I took her into my arms , so that , in general , she was ...
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219 psl. - ... rocks under conspiracies of tempest from without and tempest from within. Madonna moves with uncertain steps, fast or slow, but still with tragic grace. Our Lady of Sighs creeps timidly and stealthily. But this youngest sister moves with incalculable motions, bounding, and with tiger's leaps.
91 psl. - The minutest incidents of childhood, or forgotten scenes of later years, were often revived. I could not be said to recollect them; for, if I had been told of them when waking, I should not have been able to acknowledge them as parts of my past experience. But, placed as they were before me in dreams like intuitions, and clothed in all their evanescent circumstances and accompanying feelings, I recognized them instantaneously.
146 psl. - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of Nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
16 psl. - The poor child crept close to me for warmth, and for security against her ghostly enemies. When I was not more than usually ill...
91 psl. - The sense of space, and in the end the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, etc., 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.
48 psl. - ... 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...
49 psl. - Here was a panacea . . . for all human woes: here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered: happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket: portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle: and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail coach.
213 psl. - These ladies/'' said I softly to myself, on seeing the ministers with whom Levana was conversing, " these are the Sorrows ; and they are three in number : as the Graces are three, who dress man's life with beauty; the...
171 psl. - 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.
214 psl. - ... but by signs in heaven, by changes on earth, by pulses in secret rivers, heraldries painted on darkness, and hieroglyphics written on the tablets of the brain.