I were to linger upon this, the greatest event in the unfolding of my own mind. Let me say in one word, that, at a period when neither the one nor the other writer was valued by the public — both having a long warfare to accomplish of contumely and... The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey - Página 139por Thomas De Quincey - 1889 - 454 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 386 páginas
...valued by the public, — both having a long warfare to accomplish of contumely and ridicule before they could rise into their present estimation, — I found...that, precisely at the same time, Professor Wilson, about the same age as myself, received the same startling and profound impres sions from the same volume.... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 378 páginas
...valued by the public, — both having a long warfare to accomplish of contumely and ridicule before they could rise into their present estimation, — I found...that, precisely at the same time, Professor Wilson, about the same age as myself, received the same startling and profound impressions from the same volume.... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 364 páginas
...valued by the public — both having a long warfare to accomplish of contumely and ridicule, before they could rise into their present estimation — I found...same startling and profound impressions from the same volume. With feelings of reverential interest, so early and so deep, pointing towards two contemporaries,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 380 páginas
...valued by the public — both having a long warfare to accomplish of contumely and ridicule before they could rise into their present estimation, — I found...amongst men. I may here mention that, precisely at the sarqe time, Professor Wilson, about the same age as myself, received the same startling and profound... | |
| 1854 - 542 páginas
...of contumely and ridicule, before they could rise into their present estimation — I found in their poems "the ray of a new morning," and an absolute...worlds, teeming with power and beauty as yet unsuspected among men.' These are the .words of De Quincey. Now we think it a very remarkable fact, and one to... | |
| 1854 - 616 páginas
...they could rise into their present estimation — I found in their poems ' the ray of a new morning1 and an absolute revelation of untrodden worlds, teeming with power and beauty as yet unsuspected among men." These are the words of De Quincey. Now we think it a very remarkable fact, and one to which,... | |
| 1857 - 754 páginas
...before they could ri«e into their present estimation — I found in these poems [Lyrical Uallads] ' the ray of a new morning,' and an absolute revelation...power and beauty as yet unsuspected amongst men." It was, moreover, a crowning interest in the case of Coleridge, to hear, a few years later, that he... | |
| Peter Bayne - 1860 - 432 páginas
...contumely and ridicule, before they could rise into their present estimation, •— I found in their poems ' the ray of a new morning,' and an absolute...worlds, teeming with power and beauty as yet unsuspected among men." These are the words of De Quincey, Now, we think it a very remarkable fact, and one to... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 454 páginas
...valued by the public — both having a long warfare to accomplish of contumely and ridicule before they could rise into their present estimation — I found...an absolute revelation of untrodden worlds, teeming with^xnver and beauty, as yet unsuspected amongst men. I had received directions for finding out the... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 270 páginas
...valued by the public — both having a long warfare to accomplish of contumely and ridicule, before they could rise into their present estimation — I found...same startling and profound impressions from the same volume. With feelings of reverential interest, so early and so deep, pointing towards two contemporaries,... | |
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