... the purposes of the poet. What then must he do? He must throw the interest on the murderer. Our sympathy must be with him (of course I mean a sympathy of comprehension, a sympathy by which we enter into his feelings, and are made to understand them,... The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey - Sivu 392tekijä(t) Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 455 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| 1823 - 584 sivua
...are made to understand them, — not a sympathy* of pity or approbation :) in the murdered person-all strife of thought, all flux and reflux of passion...with its petrific mace." But in the murderer, such * It seems almost ludicrous to guard and explain my use of a word in a situation where it should naturally... | |
| 1823 - 696 sivua
...into his feelings, and are made to understand them, — not a sympathy* of pity or approbation:) in pétrifie mace." But in the murderer, such a murderer as a poet will condescend to, there must be raging... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 284 sivua
...present so general, by which, instead of taking it in its proper sense, as the act of or approbation.) In the murdered person, all strife of thought, all flux...condescend to, there must be raging some great storm of passion,—jealousy, ambition, vengeance, hatred,— which will create a hell within him; and into... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 280 sivua
...present so general, by which, instead of taking it in its proper sense, as the act of or approbation.) In the murdered person, all strife of thought, all flux...death smites him ' with its petrific mace.' But in the murderer,j3uch a murderer as a poet will condescend to, there must be raging some great storm of passion,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 sivua
...into his feelings and :ire made to understand them — not a sympathy1 of pity or approbation.) In the murdered person all strife of thought, all flux...instant death smites him "with its petrific mace." IJut in the murderer — such a murderer as a poet will condescend to, there must be raging some great... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 sivua
...enter into his feelings and are made to understand them — not a sympathy1 of pity or approhation.) In the murdered person all strife of thought, all flux and reflux of passion and of purpose, are erushed hy one overwhelming panic : the fear of instant death smites him "with its petrific mace."... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 346 sivua
...enter into his feelings, and are made to understand them,—not a sympathy of pity or approbation*). In the murdered person, all strife of thought, all flux...condescend to, there must be raging some great storm of passion—jealousy, ambition, vengeance, hatred—which will create a hell within him ; and into this... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 sivua
...or approbation). In the murdered person all strife of thought, all flnx and reflux of passion arid of purpose, are crushed by one overwhelming panic : the fear of instant death smites him " with its pctrific mace." But in the murderer — such a murderer as a poet will condescend to — there must... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1865 - 320 sivua
...into his feelings, and are made to understand them, — not a sympathy l of pity or approbation.) In the murdered person, all strife of thought, all flux and reflux of passion and of pur1 It seems almost ludicrous to guard and explain my use of a word, in a situation where it would... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1873 - 596 sivua
...into his feelings, and are made to understand them, — not a sympathy1 of pity or approbation.) In the murdered person, all strife of thought, all flux and reflux of passion and of pur1 It seems almost ludicrous to guard and explain my use of a word, in a situation where it would... | |
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