 I lay inactive. Then like a chorus the passion deepened. Some greater interest was at stake, some mightier cause than ever yet the sword had pleaded or trumpet had proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms; hurryings to and fro; trepidations of innumerable...  Confessions of an English Opium-eaterby Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 49 pagesFull view - About this book
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...some mightier cause than ever yet the sword had pleaded, or trumpet had proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms : hurryings to and fro : trepidations of innumerable...whether from the good cause or the bad : darkness and light : tempest and human faces ; and at last, with the sense that all was lost, female forms, and... | |
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...proclaimed. Then came Hidden alarms : hurryings to and fro : trepidations of innumerable fugitives, 1 knew not whether from the good cause or the bad : darkness and light : tempest and human faces ; and at last, with the sense that all was lost, female forms, and... | |
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...trepidations of innumerahle fugitives — I know not whether from the good cause or the had ; darknesj and lights; tempest and human faces; and at last,...features that were worth all the world to me — and hut a moment allowed, and clasped hands, and heart-hreaking partings, and then everlasting farewells... | |
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...proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms, and hurryings to and fro; trepidations of innumerable fugitives ; I know not whether from the good cause or the bad ; darkness...human faces ; and, at last, with the sense that all yeas lost, female forms, and the features that were worth all the world to me, — and but a moment... | |
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...cause than ever yet the sword had pleaded, or trumpet had proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms, and hurryings to and fro; trepidations of innumerable...and the features that were worth all the world to me,^and but a moment allowed, — and clasped hands, and heartbreaking partings, and then everlasting... | |
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...some mightier cause than ever yet the sword had pleaded, or trumpet had proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms; hurryings to and fro; trepidations of innumerable...that were worth all the world to me, and but a moment allowed,—-and clasped hands, and heart-breaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells! and,... | |
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