 | Thomas De Quincey - 1913 - 304 sivua
...inferred from the mean, undistinguished'omside, as seen presenting itself endways in Oxford Street. 2 ' Evanesced ' : — This way of going off from the stage of life appears lo have been well known in the seventeenth century, but at that time to have been considered a peculiar... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 sivua
...enjoyment thus 1 A concert hall. * suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a $•apnaicov vr]trevd&il for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness,...discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle, and peace... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 sivua
...abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly reveald. Here was a panacea — a 1njTrevde?1 for all humaTr woes; here was the secret of happiness, about which...discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle, and peace... | |
 | National Institute on Drug Abuse - 1979 - 470 sivua
...abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea, а фарцакои iTjTreö'ec, for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness,...discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoatpocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1877 - 418 sivua
...pleasures." " Here was a panacea," he exclaims, "a Qdpfjuncov vrprevQes, for all hnman woes : here was'the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had...discovered : happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket ; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle, and peace... | |
 | Hunt Janin - 1999 - 236 sivua
...Europeans were fond of the drug, too. The English addict Thomas de Quincey enthused, Here was a panacea ... for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness,...discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waist-coat pocket; portable ecstasies might be corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace... | |
 | Jill Jonnes - 1999 - 536 sivua
...in 1 804 when he was a student at Oxford. From the moment he first drank laudanum, he was smitten: "[H]ere was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers...discovered: happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket: portable ecstacies might be had corked up in a pint bottle: and peace... | |
 | Frank Tallis - 2002 - 226 sivua
...taking the prescribed quantity. His response is best described in his own words: Here was a panacea ... for all human woes: here was the secret of happiness,...discovered: happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket: portable ecstacies might be had corked in a pint bottle: and peace... | |
 | Robert P. Waxler, Linda Waxler - 2003 - 212 sivua
...Lake District, said something similar the first time he fell under the magic enthrallment of opium: "...here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages." For him now, "peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail coach." I went to Jonathan's... | |
 | John J. McGraw - 2004 - 422 sivua
...help the poor of Calcutta and become the very ideal of the saint while Thomas de Quincey discovered, "...the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages..." Of course, the dopamine projections that suffuse the limbic system and the frontal cortex are not the... | |
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That my pains had vanished, was now a trifle in my eyes : — this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me — in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea —... 
