 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...  Confessions of an English Opium-eater - Página 72por Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 49 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1821 - 724 páginas
...remember that any poet is recorded to have done, except the dramatist Shadwell : and in ancient days, Homer is, I think, rightly reputed to have known the...and silvery expanses of water : — these haunted me »o much, that I feared (though poj. sibly it will appear hulicrous to a medical man) that some dropsical... | |
 | 1825 - 426 páginas
...power of making the most terrific md distressing combinations out of beautiul and tender fancies. " To my architecture succeeded dreams of lakes — and...thus be making itself (to use a metaphysical word) olijtctive ; and the sentient organ prmtcl itself as "its own object. — For two months 1 suffered... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 478 páginas
...beheld such pomp of cities and palaces, as was never yet beheld by the waking eye, unless in the clouds. To my architecture succeeded dreams of lakes and silvery expanses of water. But subsequently the waters changed their character ; from translucent lakes, shining like mirrors,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 290 páginas
...remember that any poet is recorded to have done, except the dramatist Shadwell; and in ancient days, Homer is, I think, rightly reputed to have known the virtues of opium. To^my architecture succeeded dreams of lakes, and silvery expanses of water: these haunted me so much,... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 páginas
...remember that any poet is recorded to have done, except the dramatist Shadwell : and in ancient days, Homer is, I think, rightly reputed to have known the...much, that I feared (though possibly it will appear ludicroas to a medical man) that some dropsical state or tendency of the brain might tins be making... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 páginas
...remember that any poet is recorded to have done, except the dramatist Shadwell : and in ancient days, Homer is, I think, rightly reputed to have known the...dreams of lakes — and silvery expanses of water •. 278 HALF-HOUB8 WITH THE BEST ACTHORS. [THOMAS DE QVDiCZf these haunted me so much, that I feared... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1864 - 304 páginas
...lakes, and silvery expanses of water : these haunted me so much, that I feared (though possibly it wi'l appear ludicrous to a medical man) that some dropsical state or tendency of the brain might thus be inaking itself (to use a metaphysical word) objective, and the sentient organ project itself as its... | |
 | Alexander Henley Grant - 1865 - 420 páginas
...reported to have known the virtues of opium as a iftaft/iaKuv vijirivOli; — >•<•• as an anodyne. ' To my architecture succeeded dreams of lakes and silvery...of water ; these haunted me so much, that I feared lest some dropsical state or tendency of the brain might thus bo making itself (to use a metaphysical... | |
 | Alexander Henley Grant - 1865 - 414 páginas
...rightly, reported to have known the virtues of opium as a <j>dpfj.a.Kov vrjTTiv&tQ — ie as an anodyne. ' To my architecture succeeded dreams of lakes and silvery...of water ; these haunted me so much, that I feared lest some dropsical state or tendency of the brain might thus be making itself (to use a metaphysical... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1867 - 142 páginas
...remember that any poet is recorded to have done, except the dramatist Shadwell : and in ancient days, Homer is, I think, rightly reputed to have known the...of the brain might thus be making itself (to use a metaphysi.V cal word) objective : and the sentient orga.n project itself as its own object. — For... | |
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