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eBooks di Titolo C di Thomas De Quincey di Formato Pdf
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. E-book. Formato PDF Thomas De Quincey - Freeriver Publishing, 2017 -
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is a classic text by Thomas De Quincey.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: With "Levana," "the Rosicrucians and Freemasons," "Notes From the Pocket-Book of a Late Opium-Eater," Etc. E-book. Formato PDF Thomas De Quincey - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Landor utters a fine and true saying when in one of his Imaginary Conversations he makes Vittoria Colonna remark that the human heart is a world of poetry the imagina tion is only its atmosphere. It is because so much of De Quincey's 'finest work is so essentially human that he has taken and is likely to retain the high place in the realm of literature which is undeniably his. Universal human interest — herein lies the sole secret of literary immortality the revelation of the individual heart, its struggles and sorrows, its keen human sympathies in contact with a difficult world, finding an unrestful ease in that power of dreaming which is so familiar and yet SO mysterious, and whose visionary emanations have never ceased to interest Since waking and Sleeping first were. Given these things, and for their interpretation the magic of a style like De Quincey's at its best, and the result is one of the rarest in litera ture — a work whose appeal out of space, out of time, is perennial, unaffected by the changing fashions and periods of the literary world.
Confessions of an English Opium Eater. E-book. Formato PDF Thomas De Quincey - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude; and, even in the choice of a grave, will sometimes sequester themselves from the general population of the church-yard, as if declining to claim fellow ship with the great family of man, and wishing (in the affecting language of Mr. Wordsworth)