Confessions of an Opium-eaterJ. Long, 1907 - 156 sider |
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Side 14
... sometimes sequester themselves from the general population of the churchyard , as if declin- ing to claim fellowship with the great family of man , and wishing ( in the affecting language of Mr Wordsworth ) -humbly to express A ...
... sometimes sequester themselves from the general population of the churchyard , as if declin- ing to claim fellowship with the great family of man , and wishing ( in the affecting language of Mr Wordsworth ) -humbly to express A ...
Side 32
... sometimes keeping him awake , made his sleep , perhaps , when it did come , the deeper . Gathering courage from the silence , the groom hoisted his burden again , and accomplished the remainder of his descent without accident . I waited ...
... sometimes keeping him awake , made his sleep , perhaps , when it did come , the deeper . Gathering courage from the silence , the groom hoisted his burden again , and accomplished the remainder of his descent without accident . I waited ...
Side 37
... Sometimes I wrote letters of business for cottagers , who happened to have relatives in Liverpool , or in London : more often I wrote love - letters to their sweethearts for young women who had lived as servants in Shrewsbury , or other ...
... Sometimes I wrote letters of business for cottagers , who happened to have relatives in Liverpool , or in London : more often I wrote love - letters to their sweethearts for young women who had lived as servants in Shrewsbury , or other ...
Side 43
... sometimes came in upon us suddenly , and very early , sometimes not till ten o'clock , sometimes not at all . He was in constant fear of bailiffs : improving on the plan of Cromwell , every night he slept in a different quarter of ...
... sometimes came in upon us suddenly , and very early , sometimes not till ten o'clock , sometimes not at all . He was in constant fear of bailiffs : improving on the plan of Cromwell , every night he slept in a different quarter of ...
Side 44
... sometimes , indeed , there were none at all . In doing this , I committed no robbery except upon the man himself , who was thus obliged , I believe , now and then to send out at noon for an extra biscuit ; for , as to the poor child ...
... sometimes , indeed , there were none at all . In doing this , I committed no robbery except upon the man himself , who was thus obliged , I believe , now and then to send out at noon for an extra biscuit ; for , as to the poor child ...
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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.