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...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of s...

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...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE..........................................

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...es Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...rance of the fiendish heart was to be expressed and made sensible. Another world has stepped in; and the murderers are taken out of the region of huma... ...ire a thief per se, and, as to Mr. Howship, it is well known that he makes war upon all ulcers; and, without suffering himself to be se- duced by thei... ...ther, warm already, became warmer; culinary and meta- physical irritations united to derange his liver: he took to his bed, and died. Such is the comm... ...r accordingly was cheerfully granted 59 to them in three great successive battles by the English and by the Turkish sultan, viz., at Crécy, at Nicopo... ...ves them out with heretical grape and deistical round-shot enough to lay a kingdom under interdict. Any miracles, to which Joanna might treat the grim... ... the eye in one poem, unless by sacrificing all unity of theme, or else by involving the earlier half, as a narrative episode, in the latter;—this mig... ..., (as an old tradition of all public car- riages from the reign of Charles II.,) that they, the illustrious quaternion, constituted a porcelain variet...

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...ve by George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...lassics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ... of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the represen... ...examples and types under the broad Alpine survey of the spirit born of our united social intelli- gence, which is the Comic Spirit? Wise men say the l... ...ousness has enfolded us as with the arms of Amphitrite! We hear a shout of war for a diversion.—Comedy he pronounces to be our means of read- ing swif... ...btle manifestation of the very old thing from which he had sprung. CHAPTER II THE YOUNG SIR WILLOUGHBY THESE LITTLE SCOUNDREL IMPS, who have attained ... ...illness?” “None.” “My bride must have her health if all the doctors in the kingdom die for it! My darling!” “And tell me: the dogs?” “Dogs and horses ... ...t she had plunged herself in the thick of the strife of one of their great battles. Her personal position, however, was instilling knowledge rapidly, ... ...nted by the figure 4. Four happy instead of two miserable. He had said it, involving her among the four; and so it must be, she con- sidered, and she ...

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... 11 CHAPTER I MARX AND SOCIALIST DOCTRINE................................................................................................. 11 CHAPTER II BAKUNIN AND ANARCHISM........................................................................................................... 29 CHAPTER III THE SYNDICALIST REVOLT...........................................................

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