Confessions of an Opium-eaterJ. Long, 1907 - 156 sider |
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... passed , and during his travels , he tells us that he met a young lady with whom for a day he discussed Latin poetry : " From this day , " he says , " I was an altered creature , never again relapsing into the careless , irreflective ...
... passed , and during his travels , he tells us that he met a young lady with whom for a day he discussed Latin poetry : " From this day , " he says , " I was an altered creature , never again relapsing into the careless , irreflective ...
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... passing through Manchester , I was informed by several cotton manufacturers that their work - people were rapidly getting into the practice of opium - eating ; so much so , that on a Saturday afternoon the counters of the druggists were ...
... passing through Manchester , I was informed by several cotton manufacturers that their work - people were rapidly getting into the practice of opium - eating ; so much so , that on a Saturday afternoon the counters of the druggists were ...
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... passing the head - master , who was standing by , I bowed to him , and looked earnestly in his face , thinking to myself , " He is old and infirm , and in this world I shall not see him again . " I was right : I never did see him again ...
... passing the head - master , who was standing by , I bowed to him , and looked earnestly in his face , thinking to myself , " He is old and infirm , and in this world I shall not see him again . " I was right : I never did see him again ...
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... passed the head- master's chamber door . I was a favourite with all the servants ; and , knowing that any of them would screen me , and act confidentially , I communicated my embarrassment to a groom of the head - master's . The groom ...
... passed the head- master's chamber door . I was a favourite with all the servants ; and , knowing that any of them would screen me , and act confidentially , I communicated my embarrassment to a groom of the head - master's . The groom ...
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... passed it , I doubt not , within a few hours of read- ing this . For myself , I never fail to visit it when business draws me to London ; about ten o'clock , this very night , August 15 , 1821 , being my birth- day , I turned aside from ...
... passed it , I doubt not , within a few hours of read- ing this . For myself , I never fail to visit it when business draws me to London ; about ten o'clock , this very night , August 15 , 1821 , being my birth- day , I turned aside from ...
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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.