The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Τόμος 7A. and C. Black, 1890 - 456 σελίδες |
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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Τόμος 7 Thomas De Quincey,David Masson Πλήρης προβολή - 1897 |
The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Τόμος 7 Thomas De Quincey,David Masson Πλήρης προβολή - 1897 |
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Σελίδα 154 - hundred, joined themselves : who was slain ; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed and came to nought. After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the enrolment, and drew away some of the people after him : he also perished ; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad." So in the Revised Version.—M.
Σελίδα 36 - Crammed, just as they on earth were crammed ; Some sipping punch, some sipping tea ; But, as you by their faces see, All silent and all d d." How well does that one word silent describe those venerable ancestral dinners — " All silent !" Contrast this infernal silence of voice, and fury of eye, with the
Σελίδα 298 - Excursion to Moscow—an admirable sketch of Napoleon's Expedition (which had the honour to be sung on the stage of every theatre great and small throughout the three kingdoms)— " And last of all an admiral came, A terrible man with a terrible name : A name which you all must know very well, Which nobody can speak, and nobody can spell.
Σελίδα 368 - the wild barbaric character of those who conducted the movement. In the unity of purpose connecting this myriad of wills, and in the blind but unerring aim at a mark so remote, there is something which recalls to the mind those almighty instincts that propel the migrations of the swallow and the leeming,
Σελίδα 372 - people with whom he had to deal, and from the frank carelessness of his unconscious competitor. At the very outset of his treacherous career, Zebek-Dorchi was sagacious enough to perceive that nothing could be gained by open declaration of hostility to the reigning prince : the choice had been a deliberate act on the part of
Σελίδα 376 - and his own father-in-law, Erempel, a ruling prince of some tribe in the neighbourhood of the Caspian Sea, recommended to his favour not so much by any strength of talent corresponding to the occasion as by his blind devotion to himself, and his passionate anxiety to promote the elevation of his daughter and his son-in-law to
Σελίδα 401 - sheep, or goat, not one survived—only the camels. These arid and adust creatures, looking like the mummies of some antediluvian animals, without the affections or sensibilities of flesh and blood—these only still erected their speaking eyes to the eastern heavens, and had to all appearance come out from this long tempest of trial unscathed and hardly
Σελίδα 380 - resentment, and their wrath at seeing the trampled worm turn or attempt a feeble retaliation, react upon the unfortunate Kalmucks. At this crisis, it is probable that envy and wounded pride, upon witnessing the splendid victories of Oubacha and Momotbachaover the Turks and Bashkirs, contributed strength to the
Σελίδα 368 - or the life-withering marches of the locust. Then, again, in the gloomy vengeance of Russia and her vast artillery, which hung upon the rear and the skirts of the fugitive vassals, we are reminded of Miltonic images—such, for instance, as that
Σελίδα 386 - would have a better chance of winning a favourable audience. These things, in the irritated condition of the simple Tartars, passed by acclamation ; and all returned homewards to push forward with the most furious speed the preparations for their awful undertaking. Eapid and energetic these of necessity were ; and in that degree they became noticeable and manifest to the