Letters of De Quincey, the English Opium-eater, to a Young Man Whose Education Has Been NeglectedJohn Penington, 1843 - 166 páginas |
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Página 32 - Ipyov (or business), and literature as a irapepyov (an accessary, or mere by-business), how far is literature itself likely to benefit by such an arrangement ? Mr. Coleridge insists upon it that it will ; and at page 225 he alleges seven names, to which at page 233 he adds an eighth, of celebrated men who have " shown the possibility of combining weighty performances in literature with full and independent employment.
Página 85 - ... and hardly within the dawn of consciousness — as myriads of modes of feeling are at this moment in every human mind for want of a poet to organize them ? I say when these inert and sleeping forms are organized, when these possibilities are actualized, is this conscious and living possession of mine power, or what is it...
Página 98 - ... two extremities of exalted and forlorn humanity, its vanward and its rearward man, a Roman consul and an abject slave. But their natural relations to each other were by the caprice of fortune monstrously inverted : the consul was in chains ; the slave was for a moment the arbiter of his fete.
Página 141 - No complex or very important truth was ever transferred in full development from one mind to another; truth of that character is not a piece of furniture to be shifted; it is a seed which must be sown, and pass through the several stages of growth. No doctrine of importance can be transferred in a matured shape into any man's understanding from without; it must arise by an act of genesis within the understanding itself.
Página 50 - Silence may have borrowed from another man half of a joke, or echoed the roar of his laughter, is possible ; but of any more grave or laborious attempts to rob he stands ludicrously acquitted by the exemplary imbecility of his nature. No ; Dr. Watts did not steal from Mr. Locke ; in matters of dulness a man is easily original ; and I suppose that even Feeble or Shallow might have had credit for the effort necessary to the following counsels, taken at random from Dr. Watts, at the page where the book...
Página 33 - Nay, the social silence or undisturbing voices of a wife or sister will be like a restorative atmosphere, or soft music which moulds a dream without becoming its object.
Página 85 - The true antithesis to knowledge, In this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that Is not literature, to communicate knowledge.
Página 86 - Lear, the height, and depth, and breadth of human passion is revealed to us — and for the purposes of a sublime anta8 gonism is revealed in the weakness of an old man's nature, and in one night two worlds of storm are brought face to face — the human world, and the world of physical nature — mirrors of each other, semichoral antiphonies, strophe and. antistrophe heaving with rival convulsions, and with the double darkness of night and madness...
Página 126 - All languages, as it has been remarked, tend to clear themselves of synonymes as intellectual culture advances, — the superfluous words being taken up and appropriated by new shades and combinations of thought evolved in the progress of society.
Página 140 - ... no complex or very important truth was ever yet transferred in full developement from one mind to another : truth of that character is not a piece of furniture to be shifted ; it is a seed which must be sown, and pass through the several stages of growth.