 | Nigel Leask - History - 2004 - 288 pages
...Fortunately happiness, like literature, is now a trade, a commodity, rather than a moral programme ; '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 be sent down in gallons... | |
 | Stephen Bygrave - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 364 pages
...inexpensive substitute for the pleasures of imagination described by poets like Wordsworth and Keats. '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 be sent down in gallons... | |
 | Hunt Janin - History - 1999 - 236 pages
...Europeans were fond of the drug, too. The English addict Thomas de Quincey enthused, Here was a panacea ... for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness,...penny, and carried in the waist-coat pocket; portable ecstasies might be corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail ...... | |
 | Frank Tallis - Psychology - 2002 - 226 pages
...taking the prescribed quantity. His response is best described in his own words: Here was a panacea ... for all human woes: here was the secret of happiness,...waistcoat pocket: portable ecstacies might be had corked in a pint bottle: and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail coach. Clearly, the effect... | |
 | Steven B. Karch MD, Olaf Drummer, Steven B. Karch MD FFFLM - Law - 2001 - 568 pages
...artistic community, he was the most vocal advocate of opium, having written, among other things, that "happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket." De Quincy's Confessions of an English Opium Eater was first published in 1821, and a revised, considerably... | |
 | Robert P. Waxler, Linda Waxler - Bereavement - 2003 - 212 pages
...Lake District, said something similar the first time he fell under the magic enthrallment of opium: "...here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages." For him now, "peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail coach." I went to Jonathan's... | |
 | John J. McGraw - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2004 - 422 pages
...help the poor of Calcutta and become the very ideal of the saint while Thomas de Quincey discovered, "...the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages..." Of course, the dopamine projections that suffuse the limbic system and the frontal cortex are not the... | |
 | Árpád von Klimó, Malte Rolf - Alcoholism - 2006 - 330 pages
...Opium-Eater von 1 822: »Here was a panacea - a yaglmxor itfzerBrc, for all human woes: here was tlle secret of happiness, about which philosophers had...might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waisteoat pocket: portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle: and peace of mind could... | |
 | Louise Foxcroft - Medical - 2007 - 218 pages
...first dose had miraculously revealed to him 'the secret of happiness', a secret, moreover, which could 'be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket: portable ecstasies . . . corked up in a pint bottle'. But, despite his youthful, delirious eulogies, De Quincey,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1862 - 608 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,...had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered." The author is also desirous of convincing the world, on his own ample experience, that two other Commonly... | |
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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.... 
