Confessions of an English Opium-eater: And Suspiria de ProfundisTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 - 272 стор. |
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... heart . This truth I felt deeply , when I came to leave a place which I did not love , and where I had not been happy . On the evening before I left for ever , I grieved when the ancient and lofty school - room resounded with the ...
... heart . This truth I felt deeply , when I came to leave a place which I did not love , and where I had not been happy . On the evening before I left for ever , I grieved when the ancient and lofty school - room resounded with the ...
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... heart not yet impaired . The family con- sisted , at that time , of four sisters and three brothers , all grown up , and remarkable for elegance and delicacy of manners . So much beauty , and so much native good breeding and refinement ...
... heart not yet impaired . The family con- sisted , at that time , of four sisters and three brothers , all grown up , and remarkable for elegance and delicacy of manners . So much beauty , and so much native good breeding and refinement ...
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... heart . Soon after this , I contrived , by means which I must omit for want of room , to transfer myself to London . And now began the latter and fiercer stage of my long sufferings ; without using a disproportionate expression I might ...
... heart . Soon after this , I contrived , by means which I must omit for want of room , to transfer myself to London . And now began the latter and fiercer stage of my long sufferings ; without using a disproportionate expression I might ...
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... heart ; and per- haps she thought justly that the most upright judge , and the most righteous tribunals , could do nothing to repair her heaviest wrongs . Something , however , would perhaps have been done ; for it had been settled ...
... heart ; and per- haps she thought justly that the most upright judge , and the most righteous tribunals , could do nothing to repair her heaviest wrongs . Something , however , would perhaps have been done ; for it had been settled ...
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... heart and perfect love , how often have I wished that , as in ancient times the curse of a father was believed to have a supernatural power , and to pursue its object with a fatal necessity of self- fulfilment , even so the benediction ...
... heart and perfect love , how often have I wished that , as in ancient times the curse of a father was believed to have a supernatural power , and to pursue its object with a fatal necessity of self- fulfilment , even so the benediction ...
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Сторінка 100 - ... 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,
Сторінка 87 - The minutest incidents of childhood, or forgotten scenes of later years, were often revived. I could not be said to recollect them; for, if I had been told of them when waking, I should not have been able to acknowledge them as parts of my past experience. But, placed as they were before me in dreams like intuitions, and clothed in all their evanescent circumstances and accompanying feelings, I recognized them instantaneously.
Сторінка 69 - He had placed himself nearer to the girl than she seemed to relish, though her native spirit of mountain intrepidity contended with the feeling of simple awe which her countenance expressed as she gazed upon the tiger-cat before her. And a more striking picture there could not be imagined...
Сторінка 42 - That my pains had vanished, was now a trifle in my eyes : — this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me — in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a ^UMO-/ nviyStt for all human woes: here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages...
Сторінка 162 - From the highest, As from the vilest thing of every day, He learns to wean himself: for the strong hours Conquer him.
Сторінка 165 - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
Сторінка 216 - She also carries a key ; but she needs it little. For her kingdom is chiefly amongst the tents of Shem, and the houseless vagrant of every clime. Yet in the very highest...
Сторінка 87 - ... wholly incommunicable by words. I seemed every night to descend — not metaphorically, but literally to descend — into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended.
Сторінка 142 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of Nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Сторінка 166 - ... that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom; that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord.