 ... of the world within me ! That my pains had vanished, was now a trifle in my eyes : — this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me — in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed....  Confessions of an English Opium-eater - Page 68by Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 49 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas De Quincey - English essays - 1911 - 428 pages
...the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea, a <(xipfj.aKui' vrfirtvBfe for all human woes ; here was the secret of happiness,...might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoatpocket ; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle, and peace of mind could... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 688 pages
...happiness can be bought for a penny and carried in the waistcoat pocket ; and portable ecstacies may be had corked up in a pint bottle, and peace of mind be sent down in gallons by the mail coach." Thomas De Quincey, the famous English opium eater, has... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1917 - 716 pages
...enjoyment thus 1 A concert hall. * suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a $•apnaicov vr]trevd&il for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness,...peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach. But if I talk in this way, the reader will think I am laughing; and I can assure him, that... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English Prose Literature - 1917 - 716 pages
...abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly reveald. Here was a panacea — a 1njTrevde?1 for all humaTr woes; here was the secret of happiness, about which...peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach. But if I talk in this way, the reader will think I am laughing; and I can assure him, that... | |
 | National Institute on Drug Abuse - Drug abuse - 1979 - 470 pages
...abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea, а фарцакои iTjTreö'ec, for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness,...might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoatpocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace of mind could... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - Authors, English - 1877 - 418 pages
...pleasures." " Here was a panacea," he exclaims, "a Qdpfjuncov vrprevQes, for all hnman woes : here was'the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had...peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach. But if I talk in this way," he suddenly pulls up, " the reader will think I am laughing... | |
 | Nigel Leask - History - 2004 - 288 pages
...Fortunately happiness, like literature, is now a trade, a commodity, rather than a moral programme ; 'happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried...mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail coach' (C 72). In a pre-emptive inversion of the Coleridgean idea of a National Church with its East End settlements... | |
 | Keith Oatley - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 548 pages
...contemporary, de Quincy (1822) of his first experience of taking opium: "Here was the secret of happiness . . . happiness might now be bought for a penny and carried in the waistcoat pocket; portable ecstacies might be corked up in a pint bottle." 9. What can one say about such data? It is scarcely... | |
 | Stephen Bygrave - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 364 pages
...inexpensive substitute for the pleasures of imagination described by poets like Wordsworth and Keats. 'Happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried...mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail coach' (De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, 1971 edn, p. 72). Even in the 'pains of opium'... | |
 | Hunt Janin - History - 1999 - 236 pages
...Europeans were fond of the drug, too. The English addict Thomas de Quincey enthused, Here was a panacea ... for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness,...the waist-coat pocket; portable ecstasies might be corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail ... [Opium produces] the... | |
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