Confessions of an English Opium-eaterW. Smith, 1847 - 49 Seiten |
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... confess that I have indulged in it to an excess , not yet recorded * of any other man , it is no less true , that I have struggled against this fascinating enthralment with a religious zeal , and have , at length , accomplished what I ...
... confess that I have indulged in it to an excess , not yet recorded * of any other man , it is no less true , that I have struggled against this fascinating enthralment with a religious zeal , and have , at length , accomplished what I ...
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... confess that I have indulged in it to an excess , not yet recorded * of any other man , it is no less true , that I have struggled against this fascinating enthralment with a religious zeal , and have , at length , accomplished what I ...
... confess that I have indulged in it to an excess , not yet recorded * of any other man , it is no less true , that I have struggled against this fascinating enthralment with a religious zeal , and have , at length , accomplished what I ...
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... confess , however , that the authority of a surgeon , and one who was reputed a good one , may seem a weighty one to my prejudice : but still I must plead my experience , which was greater than his greatest by 7000 drops a - day ; and ...
... confess , however , that the authority of a surgeon , and one who was reputed a good one , may seem a weighty one to my prejudice : but still I must plead my experience , which was greater than his greatest by 7000 drops a - day ; and ...
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... confess , is not acceptable to my ear , from the predomi- nance of the clangorous instruments , and the absolute tyranny of the violin . The choruses were divine to hear : and when Grassini ap- peared in some interlude , as she often ...
... confess , is not acceptable to my ear , from the predomi- nance of the clangorous instruments , and the absolute tyranny of the violin . The choruses were divine to hear : and when Grassini ap- peared in some interlude , as she often ...
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... confess it , as a besetting infirmity of mine , that I am too much of an Eudæmonist : I hanker too much after a state of happiness , both for myself and others : I cannot face misery , whether my own or not , with an eye of sufficient ...
... confess it , as a besetting infirmity of mine , that I am too much of an Eudæmonist : I hanker too much after a state of happiness , both for myself and others : I cannot face misery , whether my own or not , with an eye of sufficient ...
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Seite 68 - ... 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. Here was a panacea — a ^UMO-/ nviyStt 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 carried in the waistcoat...
Seite 73 - I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by paroquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas, and was fixed, for centuries, at the summit, or in secret rooms: I was the idol; I was the priest; I was worshipped; I was sacrificed.
Seite 69 - Of these I have about five thousand, collected gradually since my eighteenth year. Therefore, painter, put as many as you can into this room. Make it populous with books, and, furthermore, paint me a good fire; and furniture plain and modest, befitting the unpretending cottage of a scholar.
Seite 72 - Asiatic things, of their institutions, histories — above all, of their mythologies, &c. — is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A young Chinese seems to me an antediluvian man renewed. Even Englishmen, though not bred in any knowledge of such institutions, cannot but shudder at the mystic sublimity of castes that have flowed apart, and refused to mix, through such immemorial tracts of time...
Seite 72 - Fuseli in modern times, that they thought proper to eat raw meat for the sake of obtaining splendid dreams: how much better for such a purpose to have eaten opium, which yet I do not remember that any poet is recorded to have done, except • the dramatist Shadwell : and in ancient days, j Homer is, I think, rightly reputed to have known the virtues of opium.
Seite 69 - ... to its effects. But this is not so : it is by the re-action of the mind upon the notices of the ear, (the matter coming by the senses, the form from the mind) that the pleasure is constructed : and therefore it is that people of equally good ear differ so much in this point from one another.
Seite 69 - I am surprised to see people overlook it, and think it matter of congratulation that winter is going, or, if coming, is not likely to be a severe one On the contrary, I put up a petition, annually, for as much snow, hail, frost, or storm of one kind or other, as the skies can possibly afford us.
Seite 70 - I feared to exercise this faculty ; for, as Midas turned all things to gold, that yet baffled his hopes and defrauded his human desires, so whatsoever things capable of being visually represented I did but think of in the darkness, immediately shaped themselves into phantoms of the eye...