 | English literature - 1863 - 634 pages
...knowledge had yielded its fruit, and it seemed good as it was beautiful ! There was indeed a discovery. ' 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 sent down by the mail.' That Duke... | |
 | 1863 - 568 pages
...Happiness might now be bqught for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket ; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle ; and peace of mind sent down by the mail." De Quincey is eloquent upon the pleasures of opium, and is careful to point... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1867 - 140 pages
...the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a (jxipfiaxov vqSifvBfs 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... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1867 - 142 pages
...of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a <j>apfi.aKov vrjSxvBfs for yall human woes : here was the secret of happiness, about...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... | |
 | Horace B. Day - Drug abuse - 1868 - 344 pages
...me in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea, a tyappaKov vmtvQeg, for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness,...pocket; portable ecstacies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach. But if I talk in this... | |
 | Charles Knight - Autobiography - 1868 - 506 pages
...in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea, a <t>ap/jMKov vrprfvOK 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 by the mail."... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 pages
...the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea, — a ya/tfiaxuv ve—evOey 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... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 pages
...abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea, — a y>ap/ja-/.ov vs-xsvQss 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... | |
 | Insanity (Law) - 1875 - 374 pages
...which had opened before me in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea for all human woes ; here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers kad disputed for so many ages, at once discovered ; happiness might be bought for a penny, and carried... | |
 | Guy's Hospital - Clinical medicine - 1876 - 506 pages
...but with an undercurrent of profound significance, " Here was a panacea, a </mMIIOMIV i'ii7rn'W[<;, 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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... 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.... 
