The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Volum 12Hurd and Houghton, 1877 |
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Pàgina 396 - ... also is something) than from the kindling through sympathy with the object discussed, in its momentary coruscation of shifting phases, there sometimes arise glimpses and shy revelations of affinity, suggestion, relation, analogy, that could not have been approached through any avenues of methodical study. Great organists find the same effect of inspiration, the same result of power creative and revealing, in the mere movement and velocity of their own voluntaries...
Pàgina 354 - Ulysses near the inclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew : Down sat the sage, and cautious to withstand, Let fall the offensive truncheon from his hand. Sudden, the master runs ; aloud .he calls ; And from his hasty hand the leather falls ; With showers of stones he drives them far away : The scattering dogs around at distance bay.
Pàgina 520 - And, last of all, an Admiral came, A terrible man with a terrible name, A name which you all know by sight very well, But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.
Pàgina 240 - Chinese, but which (the natural inference is) would have bettered the case of Yeh, had it been known to him. Precisely at this point it is that one of two fatal blunders committed by Lord Derby, in abstracting the sum of the Canton reports, has misled all who relied on his authority. At p. 10 of the Blue-book, Sir John Bowring says [Hong-Hong, October 11]: " It appears, on examination, that the Arrow...
Pàgina 406 - Hebrew method of indicating six weeks by the phrase of 'forty days,' you will have a hundred bills or drafts on Father Time, value six weeks each, as the whole period available for intellectual labor. A solid block of about eleven and a half continuous years is all that a long life will furnish for the development of what is most august in man's nature. After...
Pàgina 218 - O'er the rocks the Chamois roam, Yet he has some small dominion Which no doubt he calls his home.
Pàgina 117 - ... brothers from a fancied inconvenience; and yet, by that very act of cruelty, he had himself called destruction upon their heads. The Nemesis that followed punished him through them — him that wronged, through those that wrongfully he sought to benefit. That spirit who watches over the sanctities of love is a strong angel — is a jealous angel; and this angel it was " That loved the bird, that loved the man That shot him with his bow.
Pàgina 466 - If he had conceited that the rockiness of the ground had secured his repose, the foolish bull is soon undeceived ; the horsemen, scarcely relaxing their speed, charge up the hill, and speedily gaining the rear of the bull, drive him at a gallop over the worst part of that impracticable ground down into the level ground below. At this point of time the stranger perceives, by the increasing light of the morning, that the hunters are armed with immense spears fourteen feet long. With these the bull...
Pàgina 404 - The world, and the customs of the world, never cease to levy taxes upon our time. That is true, and so far the blame is not ours ; but the particular degree in which we suffer by this robbery, depends much upon the weakness with which we ourselves become parties to the wrong, or the energy with which we resist it.
Pàgina 467 - ... the fleet cavalcade again took the high road; they doubled the cape which shut them out of sight; and in a moment all had disappeared and left the quiet valley to its original silence, whilst the young stranger and two grave Westmoreland statesmen (who by this time had come into sight upon some accident or other) stood wondering in silence, and saying to themselves, perhaps, — " The earth hath bubbles as the water hath ; And these are of them...