 | Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1876 - 640 pages
...in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea, a cpu^uxov ve7ifvdtt, for all human woes here was the secret of happiness,...discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and * Evanesced : — this way of going off from the stage of life appears to have been well known in the... | |
 | Opioid abuse - 1876 - 172 pages
...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 had~disputed for so many ages, at once discovered ; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and... | |
 | Francis Espinasse - Great Britain - 1877 - 526 pages
...me, in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea, a paj/xaxov triwH1f, 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."... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - Literary Criticism - 1877 - 418 pages
..." minister of celestial pleasures." " Here was a panacea," he exclaims, "a (frdpfiaicov vrjTrevdes, 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... | |
 | Scotland - 1877 - 812 pages
...abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a QapftaKov vqirevQec — for all human woes: here was the secret of happiness,...which philosophers had disputed "for so many ages, at onco discovered ; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket ;... | |
 | William Mathews - English literature - 1877 - 360 pages
...wand, — a fresh tree of knowledge had yielded its fruit, and it seemed as good as it was beautiful. " Happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket ; portable ecstasies might now be had, corked up in a pint bottle ; and peace of mind sent down in gallons by... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1878 - 350 pages
...in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea, a <pa^ax.av vqxivllis, 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... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - Curiosities and wonders - 1880 - 418 pages
...dose, just after he had discovered its mystic potencies: "Here was a panacea, a (jxipfiannv ri'I>retOes 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 corked in a pint-bottle ; and peace of mind could be... | |
 | George Black (M.D.) - 1881 - 870 pages
...in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a QappaKov n^rffSes for all human woes. Here was the secret of happiness,...penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket ; portable ecstasies corked up in a pint-bottle ; and peace of mind sent down in gallons by the mail-coach." This... | |
 | H. Mortimer Franklyn - 1881 - 830 pages
...commonwealth. As the most enlightened and communicative of the opium eaters has observed: — "Happinness may be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket; portable ecstacy may be had corked up in a pint bottle; peace of mind may be set down in gallons by the mail... | |
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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.... 
