The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 12A. and C. Black, 1890 - 467 pagina's |
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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 12 Thomas De Quincey,David Masson Volledige weergave - 1897 |
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Pagina 164 - But catch one glance from her angelic countenance, and then, combining the face and the person, you would have dismissed all such fancies, and have pronounced her a Pandora or an Eve, expressly accomplished and held forth by Nature as an exemplary model or ideal pattern for the future female sex — " A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, to command; And yet a spirit, too, and bright With something of an angel light.
Pagina 265 - Then, again, she would mutter indistinctly for hours together ; sometimes she would cry out frantically, and say things which terrified the bystanders, and which the physicians would solemnly caution them how they repeated ; then she would weep, and invoke Maximilian to come and aid her. But seldom, indeed, did that name pass her lips that she did not again begin to strain her eyeballs, and start up in bed to watch some phantom of her poor, fevered heart, as if it seemed vanishing into some mighty...
Pagina 262 - A great deal of talk went on throughout the city upon this discovery ; nobody uttered one word of regret on account of the wretched jailer ; on the contrary, the voice of vengeance, rising up in many a cottage, reached my ears in every direction as I walked abroad. The hatred in itself seemed horrid and unchristian, and still more so after the man's death ; but though horrid and fiendish for itself, it was much more impressive, considered as the measure and exponent of the damnable oppression which...
Pagina 156 - Darkness and formless vacancy for a beginning, or something beyond all beginning ; then next a dim lotos of human consciousness, finding itself afloat upon the bosom of waters without a shore ; then a few sunny smiles and many tears ; a little love and infinite strife ; whisperings from paradise and fierce mockeries from the anarchy of chaos ; dust and ashes, and once more darkness circling round, as if from the beginning, and in this way rounding or making an island of our...
Pagina 278 - Jewish burying-ground, came an officer, bearing an order for me to repair to Vienna. Some officer in the French army, having watched the transaction respecting my parents, was filled with shame and grief. He wrote a statement of the whole to an Austrian officer of rank, my father's friend, who obtained from the emperor an order, claiming me as a page of his own, and an officer in the household service.
Pagina 237 - In this instance it certainly did no harm to the subject of expectation, that I had been warned to look for so much. The warning, at any rate, put me on the look-out for whatever eminence there might be of grandeur in his personal appearance...
Pagina 282 - ... moment I attempted to think only of my mother's wrongs ; but, in spite of all I could do, this old man appeared to me in the light of Margaret's grandfather — and, had I been left to myself, he would have been saved. As it was, never was horror equal to mine when I met her flying to his succor. I had relied upon her absence ; and the misery of that moment, when her eye fell upon me in the very act of seizing her grandfather, far transcended all else that I have suffered in these terrific scenes....
Pagina 431 - ... has been obliged solemnly to advertise in the gazette for the information of the wits in the capital, " That he will not consider himself bound by his promise, seeing that every week he receives so many private notifications of that appointment, that it would beggar him to pay for them at any such rate.
Pagina 428 - the superb whiskers " had vanished through the city gates. Early the next morning, under solemn pledges of secrecy, the " rebellion" and the marriage were circulated in every quarter of the town ; and the more so, as strict orders had been left to the contrary. With respect to the marriage, all parties (especially...
Pagina 208 - Could it have been that in some moment of infirmity, when her better angel was away from her side, she had yielded to a sudden impulse of frailty...