The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 4 |
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... less eloquent to the feelings from being profoundly mysterious , and , in the English Church , forced not only upon the attention , but even upon the eye , of the most thoughtless . According to the discipline of the English Church ...
... less eloquent to the feelings from being profoundly mysterious , and , in the English Church , forced not only upon the attention , but even upon the eye , of the most thoughtless . According to the discipline of the English Church ...
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... less fervour ; he attacked Dryden with a thousand times more . Jeremy Taylor he quoted only to ridicule ; and even Locke , the confidential friend of his grandfather , he never alludes to without a sneer . As to Shakspeare , so far from ...
... less fervour ; he attacked Dryden with a thousand times more . Jeremy Taylor he quoted only to ridicule ; and even Locke , the confidential friend of his grandfather , he never alludes to without a sneer . As to Shakspeare , so far from ...
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... less when 1 He who is weak enough to kick and spurn his own native litera- ture , even if it were done with more knowledge than is shown by Lord Shaftesbury , will usually be kicked and spurned in his turn ; and accordingly it has been ...
... less when 1 He who is weak enough to kick and spurn his own native litera- ture , even if it were done with more knowledge than is shown by Lord Shaftesbury , will usually be kicked and spurned in his turn ; and accordingly it has been ...
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... less fervent in their admiration than those of the eighteenth and the nineteenth , either as respected its strength and sincerity , or as respected its open profession.1 It is therefore a false notion that the general sympathy with the ...
... less fervent in their admiration than those of the eighteenth and the nineteenth , either as respected its strength and sincerity , or as respected its open profession.1 It is therefore a false notion that the general sympathy with the ...
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... less than a century from his death , 1 should have been able to glean so little . And for the solution of this wonder we must throw ourselves chiefly upon the explanations we have made as to the Parliamentary War , and the local ravages ...
... less than a century from his death , 1 should have been able to glean so little . And for the solution of this wonder we must throw ourselves chiefly upon the explanations we have made as to the Parliamentary War , and the local ravages ...
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Page 53 - Sour-eyed disdain, and discord, shall bestrew The union of your bed with weeds so loathly That you shall hate it both : therefore, take heed, As Hymen's lamps shall light you.
Page 287 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 27 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
Page 119 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Page 153 - Thus warranted, the Fellows brought their cause before the Queen's Bench, and before the end of Easter term, 1713, obtained a rule for the Bishop to show cause why a mandamus should not issue to compel him to discharge his judicial functions. Two considerable advantages had been obtained by Bentley about this time ; he had been able to apply the principle of divide...
Page 98 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Page 263 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Page 280 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk...
Page 29 - Then to the well-trod stage anon If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Page 381 - ... the same plethoric fulness of thought, the same fine sense of the beautiful — and (I think) the same incapacity for dealing with simple and austere grandeur.