The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 4A. and C. Black, 1890 - 439 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... already , but hitherto in vain . There were beckonings to him from Edinburgh by his friend Christopher North , now lord of Blackwood's Magazine , and able to convince the proprietors of that periodi- cal , if they required to be ...
... already , but hitherto in vain . There were beckonings to him from Edinburgh by his friend Christopher North , now lord of Blackwood's Magazine , and able to convince the proprietors of that periodi- cal , if they required to be ...
Pagina 8
... already know , began the tenancy of that pleasant cottage at Lasswade , seven miles out of the town , which was to be the more convenient home thenceforward for the young people when their father's literary labours did not permit him to ...
... already know , began the tenancy of that pleasant cottage at Lasswade , seven miles out of the town , which was to be the more convenient home thenceforward for the young people when their father's literary labours did not permit him to ...
Pagina 10
... already distinguished officer of the Bengal Engineers , afterwards known as Colonel Baird Smith , to whom she had been for some time engaged . As it was hardly possible then that the remaining and youngest daughter , Emily , should be ...
... already distinguished officer of the Bengal Engineers , afterwards known as Colonel Baird Smith , to whom she had been for some time engaged . As it was hardly possible then that the remaining and youngest daughter , Emily , should be ...
Pagina 12
... Already , by her leave , we have been able to present the reader with reproductions of several of these , viz . the chalk - drawing group of De Quincey , retat . 70 , with two of his daughters ( Mrs. Craig and Miss De Quincey ) , which ...
... Already , by her leave , we have been able to present the reader with reproductions of several of these , viz . the chalk - drawing group of De Quincey , retat . 70 , with two of his daughters ( Mrs. Craig and Miss De Quincey ) , which ...
Pagina 15
... already accounted for . It was with some natural interest that , on looking at an old copy of the number containing this first contribution of De Quincey to the North British Review , I found that the very next article to it in that ...
... already accounted for . It was with some natural interest that , on looking at an old copy of the number containing this first contribution of De Quincey to the North British Review , I found that the very next article to it in that ...
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Pagina 53 - Sour-eyed disdain, and discord, shall bestrew The union of your bed with weeds so loathly That you shall hate it both : therefore, take heed, As Hymen's lamps shall light you.
Pagina 287 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Pagina 27 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
Pagina 119 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Pagina 153 - Thus warranted, the Fellows brought their cause before the Queen's Bench, and before the end of Easter term, 1713, obtained a rule for the Bishop to show cause why a mandamus should not issue to compel him to discharge his judicial functions. Two considerable advantages had been obtained by Bentley about this time ; he had been able to apply the principle of divide...
Pagina 98 - 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 263 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Pagina 280 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk...
Pagina 29 - Then to the well-trod stage anon If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Pagina 381 - ... the same plethoric fulness of thought, the same fine sense of the beautiful — and (I think) the same incapacity for dealing with simple and austere grandeur.