The Uncollected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Količina 1

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Scribner and Welford, 1890
 

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Stran 49 - But enough of this ; there is such a variety of game springing up before me that I am distracted in my choice and know not which to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Stran 287 - Mr. Kingston, I hear say I shall not die before noon, and I am very sorry therefore, for I thought to be dead by this time, and past my pain.
Stran 44 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion, as the lion tears the kid; Ran on embattled armies clad in iron, And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous...
Stran 49 - Porta could not have described their natures better than by the marks which the poet gives them. The matter and manner of their tales and of their telling are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
Stran 49 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.
Stran 234 - ... body of length disproportioned to his legs. In Mr. Wilson the proportions were fortunately reversed : a short trunk, and remarkably long legs, gave him one half of his advantages in the noble science of leaping ; the other half was afterwards pointed out to me by an accurate critic in these matters as lying in the particular conformation of his foot, the instep of which is arched, and the back of the heel strengthened in so remarkable a way that it would be worth paying a penny or so for a sight...
Stran 229 - Liverpool ; but for some reason of no importance to you and me, not being immediately wanted for the family of the owner, had been let for a term of three years to Mr. "Wordsworth. At the time I speak of, both Mr. Coleridge and myself were on a visit to Mr. Wordsworth ; and one room on the ground floor, designed for a breakfasting-room, which commands a sublime view of the three mountains, — Fairfield, Arthur's Chair, and Seat Sandal (the first of them within about four hundred feet of the highest...
Stran 236 - Schiitz (the same who edited jEschylus), and you will there see (as a frontispiece to the 1st vol.) a reduced whole length of Cicero from the antique ; which, in the mouth and chin, and indeed generally, if I do not greatly forget, will give you a lively representation of the contour and expression of Professor Wilson's face. Taken as a whole, though not handsome (as I have already said) when viewed in a quiescent state, the head and countenance are massy, dignified, and expressive of tranquil sagacity....
Stran 195 - maps " tracing " the routes of armies ;" " plates exhibiting the costumes" of different nations : and more especially we agree with him (at p. 135) that in teaching the classics the tutor should have at hand " plates or drawings of ships, temples, houses, altars, domestic and sacred utensils, robes, and of every object of which they are likely to read." " It is," as he says, " impossible to calculate the injury which the minds of children suffer from the habit of receiving imperfect ideas : " and...
Stran 156 - Review — as for so many absurd irrelevancies: in that situation no doubt they were so; and of this, in spite of the haste in which I had written the greater part of the book, I was fully aware. However, as they said no more than...

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