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...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE...................... 5...

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...Y A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ects of society as it really was, and supported by a comic interest of the mock-heroic derived from a playful machin- ery, instead of converting it in... ... elsewhere, As worthy of your wonder:’— Elsewhere, I mean, in Wordsworth’s poems. In reality it is impossible that these should be the best; for even ... ... fact to stand upon. Not only must Milton have composed his three greatest poems, the two ‘Paradises, and the ‘Samson,’ in a state of blindness— but s...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... birth, Scotch by extraction; and became, as he himself did, es- sentially English by long residence and habit. Of John him- self Scotland has little ... ... Bristol Channel, and far off, the Hills of Devonshire, for boundary,—the “English Hills,” as the natives call them, visible from every eminence in th... ...I 125 Thomas Carlyle should make a volume of it. I have also written some poems, and shall probably publish the Sexton’s Daughter when I return. “My ... ... proper. “I have now finished correcting the proofs of my little Volume of Poems. It has been a great plague to me, and one that I would not have incu... ... Graces three: If these prove averse to me, They will punish,—pardon Ye!” *Poems by John Sterling. London (Moxon), 1839. 167 Thomas Carlyle He had de... ...o give some judgment, proved to be in a new vein,—what might be called the mock-heroic, or sentimental Hudibrastic, reminding one a little, too, of Wi... ...red bricks and small human interests, presented as in glowing miniature; a mock-heroic action fitly interwoven;—and many a clear glance is carelessly ... ...f Poetic interests. Coeur-de-Lion, a new and more elaborate attempt in the mock-heroic or comico- 200 The Life of John Sterling didactic vein, had be...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...rides was pursuing a profitable livelihood by the recital of the very same poems. This at once determined him 8 The Odyssey of Homer to set out for C... ...owing passage betrays the same tendency to con nect the personages of the poems with the history of the poet, which has already been mentioned:— “In ... ...ring into particulars respecting the question of this unity of the Homeric poems, (at least of the Iliad,) I must express my sympathy with the sentime... ...it as a most delightful work in itself,— a work which is as much a part of English literature as Homer himself is of Greek. We must not be torn from o... ...aults of Pope, especially when we think of Chapman’s fine, bold, rough old English;—far be it from us to hold up his transla tion as what a translati...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... .... 299, sq. Section 6. I may observe that this Life has been paraphrased in English by my learned young friend Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, and appended to... ...rides was pursuing a profitable livelihood by the recital of the very same poems. This at once determined him to set out for Chios. No vessel happened... ...showed some tact in identifying Homer with certain events described in his poems, and in eliciting from them the germs of some- thing like a personal ... ...owing passage betrays the same tendency to con- nect the personages of the poems with the history of the poet, which has already been mentioned:— “In ... ...eridge, Classic Poets, p. 276.]:— “This poem,” says Coleridge, “is a short mock-heroic of ancient date. The text varies in different editions, and is ... ...it as a most delightful work in itself,— a work which is as much a part of English literature as Homer himself is of Greek. We must not be torn from o...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...bbe’s Tales, Frank, the Parent’s Assistant, and later, Croker’s Tales from English History, Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare, Tales of a Grandfather, and... ...x- cuse, the hurly-burly and horror burst upon him at unawares. Though the English loss was comparatively very small, the 21 Yo n g e Clotho was a go... ... ours, nay, doubly so in pro- portion to the ardour of her nature. Certain poems are dearer and more eloquent to me still, because the verses recall t...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...Sponsi,” one of the most beau- tiful books in any language. You have it in English, I think, Laura.’ Laura fetched it; Guy, with a constrained ‘thank ... ...en he had gathered the general meaning of a passage, or translated it into English verse, spirited and flowing, but often further from the original th... ...tic incident,’ said Charles, ‘just fit for a novel. A Petrarch leaving his poems about in blotting-books.’ Charles used the word Petrarch to stand for...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...s eloquent to the feelings from being profoundly mysteri- ous, and, in the English church, forced not only upon the attention, but even upon the eye o... ... most thoughtless. 5 Thomas de Quincey According to the discipline of the English church, the un- baptized are buried with “maimed rites,” shorn of t... ...revised by Isaac Reed, in twenty-one vols. 8vo, in 1813; and the Plays and Poems, with notes by Malone, were edited by James Boswell, and published in... ...gellation in his mind, and in- directly to confess it, in one of his Latin poems, where, speak- ing of Cambridge, and declaring that he has no longer ... ...n amongst the literature of the land; and in the most worthless of all his poems, Walsh, an established authority, and whom Dryden pronounced the able...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ................... 130 LINES SUNG BY DURASTANTI, WHEN SHE TOOK LEA VE OF THE ENGLISH STAGE. ...................... 130 UPON THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH’S HO... ...red to put his name and statue beside those of the acknowledged masters of English poetry. But apart from this, we do think that Lord Carlisle has exa... ...et’s qualities; his terse and motto-like lines— the elaborate gloss of his mock-heroic vein—the tenderness of his pathos—the point and polished streng... ...ects the ablest, the most elaborate, and the most characteristic of Pope’s poems. In embalming insignificance and impaling folly he seems to have foun... ...n the creative faculty (a deficiency very marked in two of his most lauded poems we have not specified, his “Messiah” and “Temple of Fame,” both elo- ... ..., and in the notes made upon them. What Boileau has done in almost all his poems, our author has only in this: I dare answer for him he will do it in ...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...and when they have taught him the use of the lyre, they introduce him to the poems of other excellent poets, who are the lyric poets; and these they s... ...either to ask or answer as he is inclined; but I would rather have done with poems and odes, if he does not object, and come back to the question abou...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...t once, and the red color 9 Balzac returned as he affected the airs of an Englishman, to whom life can offer no new sensation, and disappeared withou... ...at may intervene; what contending ideas have striven within the soul; what poems have been set aside; what moans and what despair have been repressed;... ...Drawing of apparently Sanskrit characters omitted here.] Or, as it runs in English: Possessing me thou shalt possess all things. But thy life is mine,... ... some of us? Look out for your digestion, and only look,” he added, with a mock-heroic gesture, “at the majestic, thrice holy, and edifying appearance... ...under in which he delights. Some pages were missing from a copy of Byron’s poems: they had gone to light a fire of a few sticks for this young person,... ...ome to you with a whole life in each, and fresh pleasures without regrets; poems are set forth for you in a few brief phrases. The coarse animal satis...