The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey: Suspiria de profundis, with other essays, critical, historical, biographical, philosophical, imaginative and humorousW. Heinemann, 1891 |
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Сторінка 276 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Сторінка 131 - The Castle of Otranto, a Story, translated by William Marshal, Gent., from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto.
Сторінка 205 - ... as mutes, and dumb as the Seriphian frogs. And indeed it is certain, great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is the most severe bridle of the tongue. For so have I heard, that all the noises and prating of the pool, the croaking of frogs and toads, is hushed and appeased upon the instant of bringing upon them the light of a candle or torch. Every beam of reason and ray of knowledge checks the dissolutions of the tongue.
Сторінка 126 - Eedcliff at Bristol, which he really had done ; and whether he simply tolerated them in running off with the idea that these particular poems, written on discoloured parchments by way of colouring the hoax, were amongst the St. Mary treasures, or positively said so, in either view, considering the circumstances of the case, no man of kind feelings will much condemn him. But Horace Walpole roundly and audaciously affirmed in the first sentence of his preface to the poor romance of ' Otranto,' that...
Сторінка 174 - ... or else it is that unity misapprehended and mistranslated by the reporters. Such, again, as the miracles of the loaves — so liable to be utterly gossip, so incapable of being watched or examined amongst a crowd of 7,000 people. Besides, were these people mad? The very fact which is said to have drawn Christ's pity, viz., their situation in the desert, surely could not have escaped their own attention on going thither. Think of 7,000 people rushing to a sort of destruction ; for if less than...
Сторінка 130 - I did,' replied B. One year later a third penitent was going off, and upon the clergyman saying, ' Bless me, is it possible ? Did you write "Junius" ? ' he replied, ' Ah, worshipful sir, you touch a painful chord in my remembrances — I now wish I had not. Alas ! reverend sir, I did.
Сторінка 227 - Yes, I affirm that there is no form through which the Infinite reveals itself in a sense comprehensible by man and adequate to man; that there is no sublime agency which compresses the human mind from infancy so as to mingle with the moments of its growth, positively none but has been in its whole origin — in every part — and exclusively developed out of that tremendous mystery which lurks under the name of sin.