The Universal Anthology; A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes Volume 21
The Universal Anthology; A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes Volume 21
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Author: Richard Garnett
Number of Pages: 150 pages
Published Date: 05 May 2014
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: Englishhttps://d3by36x8sj6cra.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/1754/9781175402875.jpg
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9781234925666
File size: 47 Mb
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... All ask the cottage of his birth, Gaze on the soenes he loved and sung, And gather feelings not of earth His fields and streams among. They linger by the Doon's low trees, And pastoral Nith, and wooded Ayr, And round thy sepulchres, Dumfries! The poet's tomb is there. But what to them the sculptor's art, His funeral columns, wreaths, and urns? Wear they not graven on the heart The name of Robert Burns? A NARCOTIAN TRIO. Confessions Of An Opium-eater. Bt THOMAS DE QUINCEY. [For biographical sketch, see page 396.] I NOW pass to what is the main subject of these latter confessions, to the history and journal of what took place in my dreams; for these were the immediate and proximate cause of my acutest suffering. The first notice I had of any important change going on in this part of my physical economy, was from the reawaking of a state of eye generally incident to childhood, or exalted states of irritability. I know not whether my reader is aware that many children, perhaps most, have a power of painting, as it were, upon the darkness, all sorts of phantoms: in some that power is simply a mechanic affection of the eye; others have a voluntary or semi-voluntary power to dismiss or summon them; or, as a child once said to me, when I questioned him on this matter, "I can tell them to go, and they go; but sometimes they come when I don't tell them to come." Whereupon I told him that he had almost as unlimited a command over apparitions as a Roman centurion over his soldiers. In the middle of 1817, I think it was that this faculty became positively distressing to me: at night, when I lay awake in bed, vast processions passed along in mournful pomp; friezes of never ending stories, that to my feelings were as sad and solemn as if they were...
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The Universal Anthology; A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes Volume 21 by Richard Garnett
Author: Richard Garnett
Number of Pages: 150 pages
Published Date: 05 May 2014
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: Englishhttps://d3by36x8sj6cra.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/1754/9781175402875.jpg
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9781234925666
File size: 47 Mb
File Name: The.Universal.Anthology;.A.Collection.of.the.Best.Literature,.Ancient,.Mediaeval.and.Modern,.with.Biographical.and.Explanatory.Notes.Volume.21.pdf
Download Link: The Universal Anthology; A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes Volume 21
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... All ask the cottage of his birth, Gaze on the soenes he loved and sung, And gather feelings not of earth His fields and streams among. They linger by the Doon's low trees, And pastoral Nith, and wooded Ayr, And round thy sepulchres, Dumfries! The poet's tomb is there. But what to them the sculptor's art, His funeral columns, wreaths, and urns? Wear they not graven on the heart The name of Robert Burns? A NARCOTIAN TRIO. Confessions Of An Opium-eater. Bt THOMAS DE QUINCEY. [For biographical sketch, see page 396.] I NOW pass to what is the main subject of these latter confessions, to the history and journal of what took place in my dreams; for these were the immediate and proximate cause of my acutest suffering. The first notice I had of any important change going on in this part of my physical economy, was from the reawaking of a state of eye generally incident to childhood, or exalted states of irritability. I know not whether my reader is aware that many children, perhaps most, have a power of painting, as it were, upon the darkness, all sorts of phantoms: in some that power is simply a mechanic affection of the eye; others have a voluntary or semi-voluntary power to dismiss or summon them; or, as a child once said to me, when I questioned him on this matter, "I can tell them to go, and they go; but sometimes they come when I don't tell them to come." Whereupon I told him that he had almost as unlimited a command over apparitions as a Roman centurion over his soldiers. In the middle of 1817, I think it was that this faculty became positively distressing to me: at night, when I lay awake in bed, vast processions passed along in mournful pomp; friezes of never ending stories, that to my feelings were as sad and solemn as if they were...
Read online The Universal Anthology; A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes Volume 21 Buy The Universal Anthology; A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes Volume 21 Download and read The Universal Anthology; A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes Volume 21 for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook The Universal Anthology; A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes Volume 21 ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent