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" Fuseli in modern times, that they thought proper to eat raw meat for the sake of obtaining splendid dreams: how much better for such a purpose to have eaten opium, which yet I do not remember that any poet is recorded to have done, except • the dramatist... "
Confessions of an English Opium-eater - Page 72
by Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 49 pages
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The London Magazine, Volume 4

1821 - 724 pages
...remember that any poet is recorded to have done, except the dramatist Shadwell : and in ancient days, Homer is, I think, rightly reputed to have known the...and silvery expanses of water : — these haunted me »o much, that I feared (though poj. sibly it will appear hulicrous to a medical man) that some dropsical...
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The United States Literary Gazette, Volume 1

Literature - 1825 - 426 pages
...power of making the most terrific md distressing combinations out of beautiul and tender fancies. " To my architecture succeeded dreams of lakes — and...thus be making itself (to use a metaphysical word) olijtctive ; and the sentient organ prmtcl itself as "its own object. — For two months 1 suffered...
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The North American Review, Volume 18

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 478 pages
...beheld such pomp of cities and palaces, as was never yet beheld by the waking eye, unless in the clouds. To my architecture succeeded dreams of lakes and silvery expanses of water. But subsequently the waters changed their character ; from translucent lakes, shining like mirrors,...
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De Quincey's Writings: Confessions of an English opium-eater, and Suspiria ...

Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 290 pages
...remember that any poet is recorded to have done, except the dramatist Shadwell; and in ancient days, Homer is, I think, rightly reputed to have known the virtues of opium. To^my architecture succeeded dreams of lakes, and silvery expanses of water: these haunted me so much,...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...remember that any poet is recorded to have done, except the dramatist Shadwell : and in ancient days, Homer is, I think, rightly reputed to have known the...much, that I feared (though possibly it will appear ludicroas to a medical man) that some dropsical state or tendency of the brain might tins be making...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1856 - 358 pages
...remember that any poet is recorded to have done, except the dramatist Shadwell : and in ancient days, Homer is, I think, rightly reputed to have known the...dreams of lakes — and silvery expanses of water •. 278 HALF-HOUB8 WITH THE BEST ACTHORS. [THOMAS DE QVDiCZf these haunted me so much, that I feared...
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Confessions of an English Opium-eater, and Suspiria de Profundis

Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1864 - 304 pages
...lakes, and silvery expanses of water : these haunted me so much, that I feared (though possibly it wi'l appear ludicrous to a medical man) that some dropsical state or tendency of the brain might thus be inaking itself (to use a metaphysical word) objective, and the sentient organ project itself as its...
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The Literature and Curiosities of Dreams: A Commonplace Book of ..., Volume 2

Alexander Henley Grant - Dreams - 1865 - 420 pages
...reported to have known the virtues of opium as a iftaft/iaKuv vijirivOli; — >•<•• as an anodyne. ' To my architecture succeeded dreams of lakes and silvery...of water ; these haunted me so much, that I feared lest some dropsical state or tendency of the brain might thus bo making itself (to use a metaphysical...
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The literature and curiosities of dreams, by Frank Seafield, Volume 2

Alexander Henley Grant - 1865 - 414 pages
...rightly, reported to have known the virtues of opium as a <j>dpfj.a.Kov vrjTTiv&tQ — ie as an anodyne. ' To my architecture succeeded dreams of lakes and silvery...of water ; these haunted me so much, that I feared lest some dropsical state or tendency of the brain might thus be making itself (to use a metaphysical...
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Confessions of an English Opium-eater: And Analects from John Paul Richter

Thomas De Quincey - 1867 - 142 pages
...remember that any poet is recorded to have done, except the dramatist Shadwell : and in ancient days, Homer is, I think, rightly reputed to have known the...of the brain might thus be making itself (to use a metaphysi.V cal word) objective : and the sentient orga.n project itself as its own object. — For...
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