The pulses of the heart, the motions of the will, the phantoms of the brain, must repeat themselves in secret hieroglyphics uttered by the flying footsteps. Even the articulate or brutal sounds of the globe must be all so many languages and ciphers that... Autobiographic Sketches - Página 147por Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 593 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 396 páginas
...flying footsteps. Even the inarticulate or brutal sounds of the globe must be all so many languages and ciphers that somewhere have their corresponding keys...and she, whose sympathy with my meaning was always so quick and true, often outrunning electrically my imperfect expressions, felt the passage in the... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 404 páginas
...flying footsteps. Even the inarticulate or brutal sounds of the globe must be all so many languages and ciphers that somewhere have their corresponding 'keys...own grammar and syntax ; and thus the least things in-the universe must be secret mirrors to the greatest. Palmistry has something of the same dark sublimity.... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1861 - 388 páginas
...flying footsteps. Even the inarticulate or brutal sounds of the globe must be all so many languages and ciphers that somewhere have their corresponding keys...and she, whose sympathy with my meaning was always so quick and true, often outrunning electrically my imperfect expressions, felt the passage in the... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 488 páginas
...flying footsteps. Even the articulate or brutal sounds of the globe must be all so many languages and ciphers that somewhere have their corresponding keys...and she, whose sympathy with my meaning was always so quick and true, often outrunning electrically my imperfect expressions, felt the passage in the... | |
| Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1889 - 472 páginas
...flying footsteps. Even the articulate or brutal sounds of the globe must be all so many languages and ciphers that somewhere have their corresponding keys...and she, whose sympathy with my meaning was always so quick and true, often outrunning electrically my imperfect expressions, felt the passage in the... | |
| Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1896 - 456 páginas
...flying footsteps. Even the articulate or brutal sounds of the globe must be all so many languages and ciphers that somewhere have their corresponding keys...and she, whose sympathy with my meaning was always so quick and true, often outrunning electrically my imperfect expressions, felt the passage in the... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1909 - 278 páginas
...ciphers that somewhere have corresponding keys — have their own grammar and syntax ; and thus that the least things in the universe must be secret mirrors to the greatest'. Nothing is a more constant characteristic of De Quincey's thought than the tendency to regard all facts... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1911 - 428 páginas
...flying footsteps. Even the inarticulate or brutal sounds of the globe must be all so many languages and ciphers that somewhere have their corresponding keys...the universe must be secret mirrors to the greatest. Even so was De Quincey's ear laid close to the earth, to find "new and infinite symbols " in the confusion... | |
| Jorge Luis Borges - 1964 - 496 páginas
...by De Quincey:1 "Even the articulate or brutal sounds of the globe must be all so many languages and ciphers that somewhere have their corresponding keys...universe must be secret mirrors to the greatest.") A verse from St. Paul (I Corinthians, 13:12) inspired Leon Bloy. Videmus minc per speculum in aenigmate:... | |
| David Dalton - 2009 - 286 páginas
...brutal sounds of the globe," De Quincey wrote in his Autobiography, "must ali be so many languages and ciphers that somewhere have their corresponding keys...universe must be secret mirrors to the greatest," Freedom Hall, where the concert took place, is a monster indoor stadium designed for wrestling matches... | |
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