Miscellaneous EssaysTickner, Reed, and Fields, 1851 - 276 sivua "Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone." -Thomas de Quincey Miscellaneous Essays (1851) is a collection of essays by Thomas De Quincey, who has been called "...one of the greatest prose stylists of the English Romantic era." It has also been said of the author that he "was a pioneer in sensationalism," and it is that quality which characterizes this volume by expanding his writings on murder and death. The 8 titles it includes are, "On the Knocking at the Gate," "In Macbeth," "Joan of Arc," "The English Mail-Coach," "The Vision of Sudden Death," "Dinner, Real and Reputed," "Orthographic Mutineers," "Murder, Considered As One of the Fine Arts," and "Second Paper on Murder," of which the last two essays are also available as individual releases from Cosimo Classics. |
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Sivu 15 - sensible that the world of ordinary life is suddenly arrested — laid asleep — tranced — racked into a dread armistice: time must be annihilated ; relation to things without abolished; and all must pass selfwithdrawn into a deep syncope and suspension of earthly passion. Hence it is, that when the deed is done, when the work of
Sivu 192 - Whence the sound Of instruments, that made melodious chime, Was heard, of harp and organ; and who mov'd Their stops and chords, was seen ; his volant touch Instinct through all proportions, low and high, Fled and pursued transverse the resonant fugue.
Sivu 79 - that never once — no, not for a moment of weakness — didst thou revel in the vision of coronets and honor from man. Coronets for thee ! O no! Honors, if they come when all is over, are for those that share thy blood. 2 Daughter of Domremy, when the gratitude
Sivu 182 - the first timid tremblings of the dawn, were now blending : and the blendings were brought into a still more exquisite state of unity, by a slight silvery mist, motionless and dreamy, that covered the woods and fields, but with a veil of equable transparency. Except the feet of our own horses,
Sivu 118 - amidst peals redoubling upon peals, volleys upon volleys, from the saluting clarions of martyrs. Bishop of Beauvais! because the guilt-burthened man is in dreams haunted and waylaid by the most frightful of his crimes, and because upon that fluctuating mirror—rising (like the mocking mirrors of mirage in Arabian deserts) from the fens of
Sivu 201 - Was it from the reddening dawn that now streamed through the windows ? Was it from the crimson robes of the martyrs that were painted on the windows ? Was it from the bloody bas-reliefs of earth? Whencesoever it were—there, within that crimson radiance, suddenly appeared a female head, and then a female figure. It was the
Sivu 236 - removed into limbus patrum for their offences in the flesh : — " Cramming, as they on earth were cramm'd ; All sipping wine, all sipping tea ; But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all
Sivu 192 - Their stops and chords, was seen ; his volant touch Instinct through all proportions, low and high, Fled and pursued transverse the resonant fugue.
Sivu 139 - is this plebeian wretch ! The single ornament on our dark ground of chocolate color was the mighty shield of the imperial arms, but emblazoned in proportions as modest as a signet-ring bears to a seal of office. Even this was displayed only on a single panel, whispering, rather than proclaiming, our relations to the
Sivu 179 - we've lost an hour by your criminal conduct at the post-office : which, however, though I do not mean to part with a serviceable ground of complaint, and one which really is such for the horses, to me secretly is an advantage, since it compels us to recover this last hour