De Quincey's Writings: Literary reminiscences; from The autobiography of an English opium-eater. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 55 - all Christian countries ; and this he had expressed by calling it 1 The bird, whom by some name or other, All men who know thee call their brother ' — which passage the Reviewer had so little understood as to direct attention to it by italics. Yet the explanation was found in what immediately followed : — < Their Thomas in Finland And Russia far inland
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Side 87 - Such were they — such through life they might have been, In union, in partition only such : Otherwise wrought the will of the Most High/ They might have exhibited the image of a double tree, in union, throughout their joint lives.* Diis aliter visum
Side 281 - spiritual that it is possible for the human eye to wear. The light which resides in them is at no time a superficial light ; but, under favorable accidents, it is a light which seems to come from depths below all depths ; in fact, it is more truly entitled to be held
Side 319 - The one that held acquaintance with the stars, undisturbed by space or time ; The other that was a god — yea, many gods — Had voices more than all the winds, and was A joy, a consolation, and a hope.
Side 155 - I have : and it was in a German author. This German, understand, is a poor stick of a man, not to be named on the same day with Coleridge : so that, if it should appear that Coleridge has robbed him, be assured that he has done the scamp too much honor.
Side 351 - reasonable anxieties about the final interests of his children ; that at all times he has been blessed with leisure, the very amplest that ever man enjoyed, for intellectual pursuits the most delightful ; yes, that even for those delicate and coy pursuits, he has possessed, in combination, all the
Side 151 - that I first saw this illustrious man, the largest and most spacious intellect, the subtlest and the most comprehensive, in my judgment, that has yet existed amongst men. My knowledge of him as a man of most original genius began about the year 1799. A little before that time Mr. Wordsworth had published the first edition (in a single volume) of the
Side 342 - When she I loved was strong and gay, And like a rose in June ; ' or perhaps (but less powerfully so, because here the passion, though profound, is less the peculiar passion of love) from the impassioned lamentation for