The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 14A. and C. Black, 1890 - 447 pages |
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Page 288 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Page 287 - I'll. imitate the pities of old surgeons To this lost limb, who, ere they show their art, Cast one asleep, then cut the diseas'd part...
Page 114 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 285 - The most remarkable instance of a combined movement in society which history, perhaps, will be summoned to notice, is that which, in our day, has applied itself to the abatement of intemperance. Two vast movements are hurrying into action by velocities continually accelerated, — the great revolutionary movement from political causes concurring with the great physical movement in locomotion and social intercourse from the gigantic power of steam. At the opening of such a crisis, had no third movement...
Page 144 - Walladmor' is at his service, and he can judge for himself. Not reading German, let him take my word, when I apply to the English 'Walladmor' the spirit of the old bull : — ' Had you seen but these roads before they were made, You would lift up your eyes, and bless Marshal Wade.
Page 36 - maps" tracing " the routes of armies," " plates exhibiting the costumes" of different nations : and more especially we agree with him that in teaching the classics the tutor should have at hand " plates or drawings of ships, temples, houses, altars, domestic and sacred utensils, robes, and of every object of which they are likely to read." " It is," as he says, " impossible to calculate the injury which the minds of children suffer from the habit of receiving imperfect ideas" : and it is discreditable...
Page 62 - What account does he give, of what he saw with his own eyes, and heard with his own ears...
Page 37 - Expulsion even has been resorted to, " rather than a boy should be submitted to treatment which " might lead himself and his school-fellows to forget that he " was a gentleman." In this we think the Experimentalist very wise : and precisely upon this ground it was that Mr. Coleridge in his lectures at the Royal Institution attacked Mr. Lancaster's system, which deviated from the Madras system chiefly in the complexity of the details, and by pressing so cruelly in its punishments upon the principle...
Page 351 - If, on windy days, the raven Gambol like a dancing skiff, Not the less he loves his haven On the bosom of a cliff. If almost with eagle pinion O'er the Alps the chamois roam, Yet he has some small dominion, Which, no doubt, he calls his home.
Page 144 - ... shall conclude with this proposition: — All readers of Spenser must know that the true Florimel lost her girdle, which, they will remember, was found by Sir Satyrane, and was adjudged by a whole assemblage of knights to the false Florimel, although it did not quite fit her.