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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... reader , there are difficulties . But two things used to strike me , as unaccountably overlooked by Kant ; who , to say the truth , was profound yet at no time very agile in the char- acter of his understanding . First , - might we take ...
... reader , there are difficulties . But two things used to strike me , as unaccountably overlooked by Kant ; who , to say the truth , was profound yet at no time very agile in the char- acter of his understanding . First , - might we take ...
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... reader of course understands that this expression , founded on absolute calculations of Dr. Nichol , is simply meant to exhibit the relative dimensions of the mundus Ante - Rosseanus and the mundus Post - Rosseanus ; for as to the abso ...
... reader of course understands that this expression , founded on absolute calculations of Dr. Nichol , is simply meant to exhibit the relative dimensions of the mundus Ante - Rosseanus and the mundus Post - Rosseanus ; for as to the abso ...
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... reader ; positively this is the sum - total of what I can recall from the wreck of years ; and certainly it is not much . Even of Sappho , though time has made mere ducks and drakes of her lyrics , we have rather more spared to us than ...
... reader ; positively this is the sum - total of what I can recall from the wreck of years ; and certainly it is not much . Even of Sappho , though time has made mere ducks and drakes of her lyrics , we have rather more spared to us than ...
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... reader must suppose , in order to understand the depth which I have here ascribed to the impression , not as a human but as a symbolic head ; and what it symbolized to me were : 1. The peace which passeth all understanding . 2. The ...
... reader must suppose , in order to understand the depth which I have here ascribed to the impression , not as a human but as a symbolic head ; and what it symbolized to me were : 1. The peace which passeth all understanding . 2. The ...
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... reader must look to Dr. Nichol's book , at page 51 , for the picture of this abominable apparition . But then , in order to see what I see , the obedient reader must do what I tell him to do . Let him therefore view the wretch upside ...
... reader must look to Dr. Nichol's book , at page 51 , for the picture of this abominable apparition . But then , in order to see what I see , the obedient reader must do what I tell him to do . Let him therefore view the wretch upside ...
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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-à-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 près. 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.