The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 4A. and C. Black, 1890 - 439 pagina's |
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Pagina 30
... speak of ordinary minds ; but in cases of public entertainments , deriv- ing part of their power from scenery and stage pomp , novelty is for all minds an essential condition of attraction . More- over , in some departments of the comic ...
... speak of ordinary minds ; but in cases of public entertainments , deriv- ing part of their power from scenery and stage pomp , novelty is for all minds an essential condition of attraction . More- over , in some departments of the comic ...
Pagina 47
... speak a plainer language , and in which the restraints of factitious or conventional decorum are exchanged for the restraints of mere sexual decency . ( It is a noticeable fact to all who have looked upon human life with an eye of ...
... speak a plainer language , and in which the restraints of factitious or conventional decorum are exchanged for the restraints of mere sexual decency . ( It is a noticeable fact to all who have looked upon human life with an eye of ...
Pagina 54
... " a substantial yeoman , " who would expect some fortune in his daughter's suitors , she had , to speak coarsely , a little outlived her market . Time she had none to lose . William 54 BIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES.
... " a substantial yeoman , " who would expect some fortune in his daughter's suitors , she had , to speak coarsely , a little outlived her market . Time she had none to lose . William 54 BIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES.
Pagina 71
... speak , as by the force of a creative nature , in the complex system of a human life : a life in which all the elements move and play simultaneously , and , with something more than mere simultaneity or co- existence , acting and re ...
... speak , as by the force of a creative nature , in the complex system of a human life : a life in which all the elements move and play simultaneously , and , with something more than mere simultaneity or co- existence , acting and re ...
Pagina 84
... speaking of Cambridge , and declaring that he had no longer any pleasure in the thoughts of revisiting that university , he says , — " Nec duri libet usque minas perferre magistri , Cæteraque ingenio non subeunda meo . " This last line ...
... speaking of Cambridge , and declaring that he had no longer any pleasure in the thoughts of revisiting that university , he says , — " Nec duri libet usque minas perferre magistri , Cæteraque ingenio non subeunda meo . " This last line ...
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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 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 et...
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 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 24 - Ms reader's imagination ; and made him capable of succeeding, where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius. There is something so wild, and yet so solemn, in the speeches of his ghosts, fairies, witches, and...