Confessions of an Opium-eaterJ. Long, 1907 - 156 sider |
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... once tasted the divine luxuries of opium , will afterwards descend to the gross and mortal enjoyments of alcohol , I take it for granted , That those eat now , who never ate before ; And those who always ate , now eat the more . Indeed ...
... once tasted the divine luxuries of opium , will afterwards descend to the gross and mortal enjoyments of alcohol , I take it for granted , That those eat now , who never ate before ; And those who always ate , now eat the more . Indeed ...
Side 33
... once that they find it necessary to impress a sense of their consequence upon others , they meet with a thou- sand occasions for moderating and tempering this sense by acts of courteous condescension . With the families of bishops it is ...
... once that they find it necessary to impress a sense of their consequence upon others , they meet with a thou- sand occasions for moderating and tempering this sense by acts of courteous condescension . With the families of bishops it is ...
Side 37
... once , in particular , near the village of Llan - y- styndw ( or some such name ) , in a sequestered part of Merionethshire , I was entertained for up- wards of three days by a family of young people , with an affectionate and fraternal ...
... once , in particular , near the village of Llan - y- styndw ( or some such name ) , in a sequestered part of Merionethshire , I was entertained for up- wards of three days by a family of young people , with an affectionate and fraternal ...
Side 38
... once or twice in Westmorland and Devonshire . They spoke English : an accomplishment not often met with in so many members of one family , especially in villages remote from the high road . Here I wrote , on my first introduction , a ...
... once or twice in Westmorland and Devonshire . They spoke English : an accomplishment not often met with in so many members of one family , especially in villages remote from the high road . Here I wrote , on my first introduction , a ...
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... once learnedly and facetiously observed to him - the several members of it must have stood in the relation to each other ( not sat in any relation whatever - of succession , as the metaphysicians have it , and not of co - existence ; in ...
... once learnedly and facetiously observed to him - the several members of it must have stood in the relation to each other ( not sat in any relation whatever - of succession , as the metaphysicians have it , and not of co - existence ; in ...
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Side 82 - 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 VTTTrevOes1 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 pocket; portable ecstasies might...
Side 137 - ... furnished me often with matter of reflection, now furnished me with matter for my dreams. Often I used to see, after painting upon the blank darkness a sort of rehearsal whilst waking, a crowd of ladies, and perhaps a festival, and dances. And I heard it said, or I said to myself, 'These are English ladies from the unhappy times of Charles I. These are the wives and...
Side 99 - ... bringest an assuaging balm; eloquent opium! that with thy potent rhetoric stealest away the purposes of wrath...
Side 52 - Oh, youthful benefactress! how often in succeeding years, standing in solitary places, and thinking of thee with grief of heart and perfect love — how often have I wished that, as in ancient times, the curse of a father was believed to have a supernatural power, and to pursue its object with a fatal necessity of...
Side 144 - I was buried, for a thousand years, in stone coffins, with mummies and sphinxes, in narrow chambers at the heart of eternal pyramids. I was kissed, with cancerous kisses, by crocodiles; and laid, confounded with all unutterable slimy things, amongst reeds and Nilotic mud.
Side 146 - And so often did this hideous reptile haunt my dreams that many times the very same dream was broken up in the very same way: I heard gentle voices speaking to me (I hear...
Side 135 - Space swelled and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or one hundred years in one night; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in that time, or, however, of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience.
Side 134 - I seemed every night to descend, not metaphorically, but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended.
Side 131 - But for misery and suffering, I might indeed be said to have existed in a dormant state. I seldom could prevail on myself to write a letter ; an answer of a few words to any that I received was the utmost that I could accomplish, and often that not until the letter had lain weeks or even months on my writing-table.
Side 92 - Now opium, by greatly increasing the activity of the mind generally, increases, of necessity, that particular mode of its activity by which we are able to construct out of the raw material of organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure.