De Quincey's writings [ed. by J.T. Fields. 23 vols., comprising the final set of 22 and the original vol. 5, Life and manners, subsequently replaced by vol. 12, Autobiographic sketches].Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 |
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Page 11
... give way ? Secondly , I ask peremptorily , - Does it stand with good sense , is it reasonable that Earth is waning , science drooping , man looking downward , precisely in that epoch when , first of all , man's eye is arming itself for ...
... give way ? Secondly , I ask peremptorily , - Does it stand with good sense , is it reasonable that Earth is waning , science drooping , man looking downward , precisely in that epoch when , first of all , man's eye is arming itself for ...
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... give the history of a rose tree from infancy to age : how could the same rose tree , at the same time , be young and old ? Yet by taking the different developments of its flowers , even as they hang on the same tree , from the earliest ...
... give the history of a rose tree from infancy to age : how could the same rose tree , at the same time , be young and old ? Yet by taking the different developments of its flowers , even as they hang on the same tree , from the earliest ...
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... give nine lives , if he had them , to the watching of that awful appear- ance in Hercules , which pretends to some rights over our own unoffending system ? Why may he not mount guard with public approbation , for the next fifty years ...
... give nine lives , if he had them , to the watching of that awful appear- ance in Hercules , which pretends to some rights over our own unoffending system ? Why may he not mount guard with public approbation , for the next fifty years ...
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... give such an interpretation to a few playful expressions upon the age of our earth , & c . , as to class him with those who use geology , cosmology , & c . , for purposes of attack , or insinua- tion against the Scriptures . Upon` this ...
... give such an interpretation to a few playful expressions upon the age of our earth , & c . , as to class him with those who use geology , cosmology , & c . , for purposes of attack , or insinua- tion against the Scriptures . Upon` this ...
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... tanto -to contradict a previous purpose of silent indications from the fore did God give to m scientific difficulties ? continual occasions , t thousands of generati ing ITATE I # TT T P A. T --asteart 22. 44 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS.
... tanto -to contradict a previous purpose of silent indications from the fore did God give to m scientific difficulties ? continual occasions , t thousands of generati ing ITATE I # TT T P A. T --asteart 22. 44 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS.
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Page 129 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike the' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 79 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Page 193 - God's most dreaded instrument In working out a pure intent Is man arrayed for mutual slaughter, Yea, Carnage is his daughter!
Page 6 - So saying, with delight he snuff'd the smell Of mortal change on earth. As when a flock Of ravenous fowl, though many a league remote, Against the day of battle, to a field, Where armies lie...
Page 174 - The most remarkable instance of a combined movement in society which history, perhaps, will be summoned to notice, is that which, in our day, has applied itself to the abatement of intemperance. Two vast movements are hurrying into action by velocities continually accelerated, — the great revolutionary movement from political causes concurring with the great physical movement in locomotion and social intercourse from the gigantic power of steam. At the opening of such a crisis, had no third movement...
Page 28 - Angel, I will go no farther. For the spirit of man aches with this infinity. Insufferable is the glory of God. Let me lie down in the grave from the persecutions of the infinite; for end, I see, there is none.
Page 63 - Je me dis : Je m'en vais jeter cette pierre contre l'arbre qui est vis-ŕ-vis' de moi : si je le touche, signe de salut; si je le manque , signe de damnation. Tout en disant ainsi je jette ma pierre d'une main tremblante et avec un horrible battement de cœur , mais si heureusement , qu'elle va frapper au beau milieu de l'arbre ; ce qui véritablement n'était pas difficile, car j'avais eu soin de le choisir fort gros et fort prčs. Depuis lors je n'ai plus douté de mon salut.
Page 27 - ... by spans — that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measure were the architraves, past number were the archways, beyond memory the gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities below ! Above was below, below was above, to the man stripped of gravitating body ; depth was swallowed up in height insurmountable, height was swallowed up in depth unfathomable. Suddenly, as thus they rode from infinite to infinite, suddenly, as thus they tilted over...
Page 108 - The incident, indeed, was singular : going down the Strand, in one of his day-dreams, fancying himself swimming across the Hellespont, thrusting his hands before him as in the act of swimming, his hand...
Page 135 - 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.