The Works of Thomas De Quincey: Style and rhetoric and other papersA. & C. Black, 1862 |
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Pagina xiv
... once a boy ; and , when not more than nine years old , he was solemnly led by his father to the blazing altar of some fierce aveng- ing deity [ Moloch perhaps ] such as his compatriots wor- shipped , and by all the sanctities that ever ...
... once a boy ; and , when not more than nine years old , he was solemnly led by his father to the blazing altar of some fierce aveng- ing deity [ Moloch perhaps ] such as his compatriots wor- shipped , and by all the sanctities that ever ...
Pagina xxii
... once restored to its place , is left to slumber for a generation . So far as regards the Time which is coming ; but Dr. Johnson's insulting farewell was an arrow feathered to meet the Past and Present . We may the mob of mechanics and ...
... once restored to its place , is left to slumber for a generation . So far as regards the Time which is coming ; but Dr. Johnson's insulting farewell was an arrow feathered to meet the Past and Present . We may the mob of mechanics and ...
Pagina 7
... once ; none whatever . Such being the character of the Commissioner's private corre- spondence , several councilmen were disposed , on reflection , to treat his recent communication as very questionable and apocryphal , amongst whom was ...
... once ; none whatever . Such being the character of the Commissioner's private corre- spondence , several councilmen were disposed , on reflection , to treat his recent communication as very questionable and apocryphal , amongst whom was ...
Pagina 10
... assured him that he was much mistaken if he thought that his Highness ever did these things by halves , or would cease to watch over the fortunes of a family whom he had once taken into his special grace , the good man 10 THE INCOGNITO ;
... assured him that he was much mistaken if he thought that his Highness ever did these things by halves , or would cease to watch over the fortunes of a family whom he had once taken into his special grace , the good man 10 THE INCOGNITO ;
Pagina 11
Thomas De Quincey. once taken into his special grace , the good man absolutely sobbed like a child , and could neither utter a word , nor get a wink of sleep that night . All night the workmen pursued their labours , and by morning the ...
Thomas De Quincey. once taken into his special grace , the good man absolutely sobbed like a child , and could neither utter a word , nor get a wink of sleep that night . All night the workmen pursued their labours , and by morning the ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 56 - Such are their ideas ; such their religion, and such their law. But as to our country and our race, as long as the wellcompacted structure of our church and state, the sanctuary, the holy of holies of that ancient law, defended by reverence, defended by power, a fortress at once and a temple...
Pagina 57 - As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects, the lords and commons of this realm — the triple cord which no man can break...
Pagina 56 - Sion — as long as the British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state, shall, like the proud Keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers...
Pagina 120 - And, last of all, an Admiral came, A terrible man with a terrible name, A name which you all know by sight very well, But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.
Pagina 90 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Pagina 57 - ... and each other's rights ; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order, for every kind and every quality of property and of dignity, — as long as these endure, so long the Duke of Bedford is safe, and we are all safe together : the high from the blights of envy and the spoliation of rapacity ; the low from the iron hand of oppression and the insolent spurn of contempt. Amen ! and so be it : and so it will be ' Dum Domus ^Enese Capitoli immobile saxum Accolet, imperiumque Pater...
Pagina 251 - Euripides ; and that his pupils ^Eschines and Demosthenes contended for the crown of patriotism in the presence of Aristotle, the master of Theophrastus, who taught at Athens with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects.
Pagina 37 - Few writers have shown a more extraordinary compass of powers than Donne ; for he combined — what no other man has ever done — the last sublimation of dialectical subtlety and address with the most impassioned majesty.
Pagina 272 - ... union is too subtle; the intertexture too ineffable, each co-existing not merely with the other, but each in and through the other. An image, for instance, a single word, often enters into a thought as a constituent part. In short, the two elements are not united as a body with a separable dress, but as a mysterious incarnation. And thus, in what proportion the thoughts are subjective, in that same proportion does their very essence become identical with the expression, and the style become confluent...
Pagina 74 - Any composition in verse, (and none that is not,) is always called, whether good or bad, a Poem, by all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain.