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" ... of the world within me ! 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.... "
The Unity of Medicine: Its Corruptions and Divisions by Law Established in ... - Page 219
by Frederick Davies - 1870 - 302 pages
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On disorders of assimilation, digestion, etc

Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton - 1901 - 538 pages
...abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a <pap^aKov wjirevfle's — for all human woes. Here was the secret of happiness...might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket ; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle ; and peace of mind could...
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Sierra Educational News, Volume 7

California Teachers Association - 1911 - 600 pages
...commonwealth. As the most enlightened and communicative of the opium eaters has observed: "Happiness may be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket; portable ecstasy may be had corked up in a pint bottle; peace of mind may be set down in gallons by the mailhtt...
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Confessions of an Opium-eater

Thomas De Quincey - 1907 - 174 pages
...thus suddenly revealed. Here was a pana-\ J cea — a tpappaitov vfaivStg for all human woes : here! F was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers...penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket : portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle : and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons...
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Popular Drugs: Their Use and Abuse

Sydney Hillier - Drug abuse - 1910 - 200 pages
...the abyss of Divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a fapfuaKov vrpnvOK — for all human woes. Here was the secret of happiness...penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket ; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle ; and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons...
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De Quincey

Thomas De Quincey - English essays - 1911 - 428 pages
...the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea, a <(xipfj.aKui' vrfirtvBfe for all human woes ; here was the secret of happiness,...might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoatpocket ; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle, and peace of mind could...
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Readings in English Prose of the Nineteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English Prose Literature - 1917 - 716 pages
...enjoyment thus 1 A concert hall. * suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a $•apnaicov vr]trevd&il for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness,...penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle, and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons...
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Readings in English Prose of the Nineteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English Prose Literature - 1917 - 716 pages
...abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly reveald. Here was a panacea — a 1njTrevde?1 for all humaTr woes; here was the secret of happiness, about which...penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle, and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons...
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Handbook on Drug Abuse

National Institute on Drug Abuse - Drug abuse - 1979 - 470 pages
...abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea, а фарцакои iTjTreö'ec, for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness,...might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoatpocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace of mind could...
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Thomas De Quincey: His Life and Writings, with Unpublished Correspondence

Alexander Hay Japp - Authors, English - 1877 - 418 pages
...pleasures." " Here was a panacea," he exclaims, "a Qdpfjuncov vrprevQes, for all hnman woes : here was'the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had...penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket ; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle, and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons...
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Best Laid Schemes: The Psychology of the Emotions

Keith Oatley - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 548 pages
...contemporary, de Quincy (1822) of his first experience of taking opium: "Here was the secret of happiness . . . happiness might now be bought for a penny and carried...the waistcoat pocket; portable ecstacies might be corked up in a pint bottle." 9. What can one say about such data? It is scarcely a matter for saying,...
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