 | 1853 - 816 sider
...Happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket : portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle ; and peace...could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach." Those who understand best and feel most for the sorrows and pains of the poverty- stricken humbler... | |
 | 1877 - 798 sider
...happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat - pocket ; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pintbottle ; and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail." With this affectionate banter and playful solemnity does the Opiumeater, on first assuming... | |
 | 1821 - 724 sider
...world. up in a pint bottle: and peace of mind could be Bent down in gallons by the mail coach. But, it' I talk in this way, the reader will think I am laughing...laugh long who deals much with opium : its pleasures eveu are of a grave and solemn complexion ; and in his happiest state, the opium-eater cannot present... | |
 | 1822 - 962 sider
...and carried in the waistcoat pocket : portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle : and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail coach. But, if I talk in this way, the reader will think I am laughing : and I can assure him,... | |
 | 1853 - 672 sider
...waistcoat-pocket — and how portable eestasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle — and how peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach. He then comments on his own chequered mood, as follows : " But, if I talk in this way, the reader will... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 sider
...and carried in the waistcoat pocket : portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle : and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail coach. But, if I talk in this way, the reader will think I am laughing : and I can assure him,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 316 sider
...should abscond, that is, into the other world. carried in the waist-coat pocket ; portable ecslacies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle ; and peace...be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach. But if 1 talk in this way, the reader will think I am laughing ; and I can assure him that nobody will laugh... | |
 | 1852 - 516 sider
...waistcoatpocket — and how portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle — and how peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach. He then comments on his own chequered mood, as follows : " But, if I talk in this way, the reader will... | |
 | 1852 - 524 sider
...the waistcoatpocket—and how portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle—and how peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach. He then comments on his own chequered mood, as follows : " But, if I talk in this way, the reader will... | |
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Here was a panacea . . . for all human woes: here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered: happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket: portable ecstasies... 
