The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 10A. & C. Black, 1897 |
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... human thought on the face of the earth ; I have often said so , and I am still of that opinion . But the question now is about the Greek Literature . Well , I know what is within these walls , and pretty generally all that is within ...
... human thought on the face of the earth ; I have often said so , and I am still of that opinion . But the question now is about the Greek Literature . Well , I know what is within these walls , and pretty generally all that is within ...
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... human nature . And why ? Simply for this reason , that our power to exercise the faculties on such subjects is not , as it is on others , in defiance of our own spirits ; the difficulties and resistances to our progress in these ...
... human nature . And why ? Simply for this reason , that our power to exercise the faculties on such subjects is not , as it is on others , in defiance of our own spirits ; the difficulties and resistances to our progress in these ...
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... human research , yet did not forget to pay the price at which only any right to be thus discursive can be earned . He sacrificed to the austerer muses . Knowing that God geometrizes eternally , he rightly supposed that in the universal ...
... human research , yet did not forget to pay the price at which only any right to be thus discursive can be earned . He sacrificed to the austerer muses . Knowing that God geometrizes eternally , he rightly supposed that in the universal ...
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... ( as I am now going to do ) directly and in abstracto . A mere course of reading , there- fore , is much below what I propose ; on the other hand , an organon of the human understanding is as much above it LETTERS TO A YOUNG MAN 23.
... ( as I am now going to do ) directly and in abstracto . A mere course of reading , there- fore , is much below what I propose ; on the other hand , an organon of the human understanding is as much above it LETTERS TO A YOUNG MAN 23.
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Thomas De Quincey, David Masson. organon of the human understanding is as much above it . Such a work is a labour for a life ; that is to say , though it may take up but a small part of every day , yet could it in no other way accumulate ...
Thomas De Quincey, David Masson. organon of the human understanding is as much above it . Such a work is a labour for a life ; that is to say , though it may take up but a small part of every day , yet could it in no other way accumulate ...
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Page 309 - But enough of this ; there is such a variety of game springing up before me that I am distracted in my choice and know not which to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Page 99 - So am I as the rich, whose blessed key Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure, The which he will not every hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since, seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
Page 329 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Page 336 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke...
Page 117 - ... of the low fat Bedford Level will have nothing to fear from all the pickaxes of all the levellers of France. As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects, the lords and commons of this realm — the triple cord which no man can break...
Page 336 - ... more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Page 394 - O mighty poet! - Thy works are not as those of other men, simply and merely great works of art; but are also like the phenomena of nature, like the sun and the sea, the stars and the flowers, like frost and snow, rain and dew, hail-storm and thunder, which are to be studied with entire submission of our own faculties, and in the perfect faith that in them there can be no too much or too little, nothing useless or inert - but that, the further we press in our discoveries, the more we shall see proofs...
Page 305 - No strength of man, or fiercest wild beast, could withstand ; Who tore the lion as the lion tears the kid ; Ran on embattled armies clad in iron ; And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous, useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear, the hammer'd cuirass, Chalybean-temper'd steel, and frock of mail Adamantean proof?
Page 391 - ... exhibits human nature in its most abject and humiliating attitude. Such an attitude would little suit the purposes of the poet. What then must he do? He must throw the interest on the murderer: our sympathy must be with him...
Page 280 - ... standing aloof as a sort of monster hired to play tricks of funambulism for the night. Yet again, if he contents himself with a musket like other people, then for...