De Quincey's Writings, Volume 9Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 |
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... regard to contemporaries , is invidi- ous . In genial moments the characteristic remem- brances of men expand as fluently as buds travel into blossoms ; but criticism , if it is to be conscientious and profound , and if it is applied to ...
... regard to contemporaries , is invidi- ous . In genial moments the characteristic remem- brances of men expand as fluently as buds travel into blossoms ; but criticism , if it is to be conscientious and profound , and if it is applied to ...
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... regards the consecration to our feelings , settled , by usage and custom , upon the Saxon strands , in the mixed yarn of our native tongue . And , universally , this may be remarked that , wherever the passion of a poem is of that sort ...
... regards the consecration to our feelings , settled , by usage and custom , upon the Saxon strands , in the mixed yarn of our native tongue . And , universally , this may be remarked that , wherever the passion of a poem is of that sort ...
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... regards diction , which does require correction . And if , so far , the critics should resist Wordsworth's principle of reform , not he , but they , would have been found the patrons of deformity . This course would soon have turned the ...
... regards diction , which does require correction . And if , so far , the critics should resist Wordsworth's principle of reform , not he , but they , would have been found the patrons of deformity . This course would soon have turned the ...
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... regards the three just cited , is found in the poem of Hart - leap - well , ' over which the mysterious spirit of the noon - day , Pan , seems to brood . Out of suffering is there evoked the image of peace . Out of the cruel leap , and ...
... regards the three just cited , is found in the poem of Hart - leap - well , ' over which the mysterious spirit of the noon - day , Pan , seems to brood . Out of suffering is there evoked the image of peace . Out of the cruel leap , and ...
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... regards its opening , seems to require a recast . The inaugurating story of Mar- garet is in a wrong key , and rests upon a false basis . It is a case of sorrow from desertion . So at least it is represented . Margaret loses , in losing ...
... regards its opening , seems to require a recast . The inaugurating story of Mar- garet is in a wrong key , and rests upon a false basis . It is a case of sorrow from desertion . So at least it is represented . Margaret loses , in losing ...
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Page 169 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 8 - The pleasure-house is dust : behind, before, This is no common waste, no common gloom ; But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Page 251 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Page 174 - For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right; In faith and hope the world will disagree.
Page 37 - From an eternity of idleness I, God, awoke ; in seven days' toil made earth From nothing ; rested, and created man : I placed him in a paradise, and there Planted the tree of evil, so that he Might eat and perish, and my soul procure Wherewith to sate its malice, and to turn, Even like a heartless conqueror of the earth, All misery to my fame.
Page 49 - I do remember well the hour which burst My spirit's sleep: a fresh May-dawn it was, When I walked forth upon the glittering grass, And wept, I knew not why; until there rose From the near schoolroom, voices, that, alas! Were but one echo from a world of woes — The harsh and grating strife of tyrants and of foes.
Page 146 - Scriptures speak not of the understanding, but of ' the understanding heart,' — making the heart, ie the great intuitive (or non-discursive) organ, to be the interchangeable formula for man in his highest state of capacity for the infinite. • Tragedy, romance, fairy tale, or epopee, all alike restore to man's mind the ideals of justice, of hope, of truth, of mercy, of retribution, which else (left to the support of daily life in its realities), would languish for want of sufficient illustration.
Page 38 - O almighty one, I tremble and obey ! " O Spirit ! centuries have set their seal On this heart of many wounds, and loaded brain, Since the Incarnate came : humbly he came, Veiling his horrible Godhead in the shape Of man, scorned by the world, his name unheard, Save by the rabble of his native town, Even as a parish demagogue.
Page 165 - NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, " Most women have no characters at all." Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear, And best distinguish'd by black, brown, or fair. How many pictures of one nymph we view...
Page 168 - Calista prov'd her conduct nice, And good Simplicius asks of her advice. Sudden she storms ! she raves ! you tip the wink; But spare your censure ; Silia does not drink. All eyes may see from what the change arose ; All eyes may see — a pimple on her nose. Papillia, wedded to her amorous spark, Sighs for the shades —