De Quincey's WritingsTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 |
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Сторінка vii
... record of a remarkable period of my life ; according to my application of it , I trust that it will prove , not merely an interesting record , but , in a considerable degree , useful and instructive . In that hope it is , that I have ...
... record of a remarkable period of my life ; according to my application of it , I trust that it will prove , not merely an interesting record , but , in a considerable degree , useful and instructive . In that hope it is , that I have ...
Сторінка ix
... record of an experience purchased at so heavy a price , might compensate , by a vast over- balance , for any violence done to the feelings I have noticed , and justify a breach of the gen- eral rule . Infirmity and misery do not , of ne ...
... record of an experience purchased at so heavy a price , might compensate , by a vast over- balance , for any violence done to the feelings I have noticed , and justify a breach of the gen- eral rule . Infirmity and misery do not , of ne ...
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... record , by a long course of indulgence in this practice , purely for the sake of creating an artificial state of pleasurable excitement . This , however , is a misrepresentation of my case . True it is , that for nearly ten years I did ...
... record , by a long course of indulgence in this practice , purely for the sake of creating an artificial state of pleasurable excitement . This , however , is a misrepresentation of my case . True it is , that for nearly ten years I did ...
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... records of a period so dolorous to us both as the le- gend of some hideous dream that can return no more . Meantime I am again in London ; and again I pace the terraces of Oxford Street by night ; and oftentimes , when I am oppressed by ...
... records of a period so dolorous to us both as the le- gend of some hideous dream that can return no more . Meantime I am again in London ; and again I pace the terraces of Oxford Street by night ; and oftentimes , when I am oppressed by ...
Сторінка 86
... than three years and a half I am sum- moned away from these ; I am now arrived at an Iliad of woes ; for I have now to record THE PAINS OF OPIUM . as when some great painter 86 CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER. ...
... than three years and a half I am sum- moned away from these ; I am now arrived at an Iliad of woes ; for I have now to record THE PAINS OF OPIUM . as when some great painter 86 CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER. ...
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Сторінка 110 - ... and heart-breaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells! and with a sigh, such as the caves of hell sighed when the incestuous mother uttered the abhorred name of death, the sound was reverberated — everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated — everlasting farewells! And I awoke in struggles, and cried aloud — "I will sleep no more!
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