De Quincey's WritingsTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854 |
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Strana 98 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...
Strana 200 - A DELICATE child, pale and prematurely wise, was complaining on a hot morning that the poor dewdrops had been too hastily snatched away, and not allowed to glitter on the flowers like other happier dewdrops that live the whole night through, and sparkle in the moonlight and through the morning onwards to noonday. " The sun," said the child, " has chased them away with his heat, or swallowed them in his wrath.
Strana 176 - I will notice before I conclude. For the present, I shall observe only, that in the case of Schiller, I love his works chiefly because I venerate the memory of the man...
Strana 117 - at all that is good of you or your religion as it distinguishes " from us and ours : we hope that the good which you have " common with us may obtain pardon, directly or indirectly, " or may be an antidote of the venom, and an amulet against " the danger, of your very great errors. So that, if you can " derive any confidence from our concession, you must " remember where it takes root,—not upon anything of " yours, but wholly upon the excellence of ours.
Strana 196 - I looked, and in a moment came a twilight ; in the twinkling of an eye a galaxy ; and then with a choral burst rushed in all the company of stars. For centuries gray with age, for millennia hoary with antiquity, had the starry light been. on its road to us; and at length, out of heights inaccessible to thought, it had reached us. Now then, as through some renovated century, we flew through new cycles of heavens. At length again came a starless interval; and far longer it endured before the beams...
Strana 95 - Mackintosh has not overlooked it ; he has in fact expressed it repeatedly, but always in terms that would hardly have conveyed the full meaning to my mind if I had not been expressly seeking for such a meaning. At p. 14 (vol. i. ) he thus distinguishes : — " These momentous inquiries relate to at least two perfectly distinct subjects : I. The nature of the distinction between Right and Wrong in human conduct ; and, II. The nature of those feelings with which Right and Wrong are contemplated by...
Strana 205 - Then also thy temple, 0 eternal Truth ! that now stands half below the earth, made hollow by the sepulchres of its witnesses, will raise itself in the total majesty of its proportions, and will stand in monumental granite ; and every pillar on which it rests will be fixed in the grave of a martyr.
Strana 105 - ... under all these disguises, it is very evident that Kant's original determination was to a coarse, masculine pursuit of science, and that literature in its finer departments, whose essence is power and not knowledge, was to him, at all parts of his life, an object of secret contempt. Out of regard to what he considered the prejudices of society, it is true he concealed his contempt, and perhaps, in its whole extent, he did not even avow it to himself ; but it is clear that it lurked in his inner...
Strana 20 - Gillies, the advocate, whose name I repeat with a sigh of inexpressible sadness, such as belongs of right to some splendid Timon of Athens, so often as on the one hand I revivify to my mind his gay saloons, resonant with music and festal laughter — the abode for years of a munificent hospitality, which Wordsworth characterised as "all but princely...
Strana 201 - So then, I am parted from you to all eternity by an impassable abyss: the great universe of suns is above, below, and round about me : but I am chained to a little ball of dust and ashes.