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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... many quarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing a far profounder interest in ... ...e character of my thoughts changed greatly; for so representative are some acts, that one single case of the class is sufficient to throw open before ... ... And perhaps this natural prece- dency in authority of years and judgment, united to the ten- der humility with which she declined to assert it, had b... ...h. O mighty and essential solitude, that wast, and art, and art to be, thy kingdom is made perfect in the grave; but even over those that keep watch o... ...ex the images, and that, perhaps, it is which gives him the air of one who acts reluctantly or evasively. Now, again, the sun shines more brightly, an... ...all the incalculable genera- tions that had trot this earth before us. The Parliament of living men, Lords and Commons united, what a miserable array ... ...ellectual amuse- ments, occupied ourselves at times in governing imaginary kingdoms. I do not mention this as any thing unusual; it is a common resour...

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................................................................................................................... 27 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE EARTH: MOTHER OF ALL .................................................................................. 28 HOMER?S HYMN TO MINERVA................................................................................................................

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ...not strange. _95 He, like the vulgar, thinks, feels, acts and lives Just as his father did; the unconquered powers Of precedent ... ...170 No atom of this turbulence fulfils A vague and unnecessitated task, Or acts but as it must and ought to act. Even the minutest molecule of light, ... ... _230 Unfurled their pinions to the winds of Heaven. The Body and the Soul united then, A gentle start convulsed Ianthe’s frame: Her veiny eyelids qui... ...ch should limit its duration? A husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each other: any law which should bind them to cohabitat... ...man qualities and governing the universe as an earthly monarch governs his kingdom. Their addresses to this imagi- nary being, indeed, are much in the... ...ENS : OMENS : OMENS : OMENS : OMENS Published by Medwin, “Shelley Papers”, 1833; dated 1807. Hark! the owlet flaps his wings In the pathless dell bene... ...d, _35 Whilst to poor humble merit small praise is allowed, As in parliament votes, so in pictures a name, Oft determines a fate at the altar...

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