...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... birth, Scotch by extraction; and became, as he himself did, es- sentially English by long residence and habit. Of John him- self Scotland has little ... ... Bristol Channel, and far off, the Hills of Devonshire, for boundary,—the “English Hills,” as the natives call them, visible from every eminence in th... ...t of these two Universities, Cambridge is decidedly the more catholic (not Roman catholic, but Human catholic) in its tendencies and habitudes; and th... ...ch of Sterling’s and ours. A world all rocking and plunging, like that old Roman one when the measure of its iniquities was full; the abysses, and sub... ...in camps and coun- cil-rooms, in presence-chambers and in prisons. He knew romantic Spain;—he was himself, standing withal in the vanguard of Freedom’... ...sincerity and splendor that there once was in the semi-paganism of the old Catholics comes out in St. Peter’s and its dependencies, almost as grandly ...

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...rlooked misprint for ‘uprist’—not by any means a nonce-word, but a genuine English verbal substantive of regu- lar formation, familiar to many from it... ...ll-health increased this restlessness. The sufferings occasioned by a cold English winter made him pine, especially when our colder spring arrived, fo... ...arth might become such, did mankind them- selves consent. The charm of the Roman climate helped to clothe his thoughts in greater beauty than they had... ...erest; and that the feel- ings of the company never failed to incline to a romantic pity for the wrongs, and a passionate exculpation of the hor- ribl... ...h century into cold impersonations of my own mind. They are represented as Catholics, and as Catholics deeply tinged with religion. T o a Protestant a... ... by a feigned tale to confess himself before death; this being esteemed by Catholics as essential to salvation; and she only relinquishes her purpose ... ... _130 412 V olume One To see what was romantic there. 12. 12. 12. 12. 12. And all this, though quite ideal,— Read... ...r the worshipped father of our common country, With contributions from the catholics, Will make Rebellion pale in our excess. Be these the expedients ...

...Y A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...a successful flight, and, there- fore, for the following revolution in the romance of his own abominable life. He had in his pockets above a hundred p... ...s of years. 5 Let the reader, who is disposed to regard as exaggerated or romantic the pure fiendishness imputed to Williams, recol- lect that, excep... ...ar more playful and genial than Swift’s; something of this is shown in his romance of ‘Idris,’ and oftentimes in his prose. But what the world knows W... ...d, upon principles of fidelity under political suffer- ing, with the Roman Catholics, to say little in his own de- fence. That defence, and any revers... ... at the age of twenty-four. Except that he favored the claims of the Irish Catholics, his policy was pretty uniformly that of Mr. Pitt. He supported t...

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...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE...................... 5...

... A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIO... ...P ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EATER... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...E UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER THE R THE R THE R THE R THE ROMANS OMANS OMANS OMANS OMANS ............................................... ...ve arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of their word religlo, th... ...he ancient Ro- mans. Now, considering that the word religion is originally Roman, [probably from the Etruscan,] it seems probable that it presented th... ...elief in God; how then? Is this belief special to Prot- estants? Are Roman Catholics, are those of the Greek, the Armenian, and other Christian church... ...the Ponteficii, as the more learned of our fathers always called the Roman Catholics, Mariolatry; they pay undue honors, say we, to the Virgin. They i...

...ASUISTRY ....................................................................................................................... 143 GREECE UNDER THE ROMANS..................................................................................... 189...

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...eenth century may have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romance, the shaping of the conceptions that the imagination must necessari... ...nger’s education and opinions are looked on as not sufficiently alien from Roman Catholicism, a reference to Froude’s ‘History of Queen Elizabeth’ wil... ...ike most of the other nobles of Picardy—and had thus been brought into the English camp, where, regarding Henry V. as lawfully appointed to the succes... ... ing him and his brother Nedford, he had become an ardent supporter of the English claim. He had married an English lady, and had received the grant i... ... decorated with the glorious paintings collected by Francois I., Greek and Roman statues clustered at the angles, and cabinets with gems and antiques ... ...magined that the Huguenots were on the point of rising and slaying all the Catholics, and, with the savagery of alarmed cowardice, the citizens and th... ...bound to the French Reformers who would gladly have come to terms with the Catholics at the Conference of Plassy, and regretted the more decided Calvi... ...tics. De Mericour consulted spiritual advisers, who told him that none but Catholics could be truly holy, and that what he admired were merely heathen...

...rawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romance, the shaping of the conceptions that the imagination must necessarily form when dwelling upon the records of history. That faculty which might be called the passive fancy, and might almost be described in Portia?s son...

...g student publication project to bring classi- cal works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...passes with- out its harvest, large or small, of lectures from Scot- tish, English, French, or German representatives of the science or literature of ... ...erament, as well as the peculiar political temperament, that goes with our English speech may more and more pervade and influence the world. As regard... ...l these writers; but how devoid of passion or exultation the spirit of the Roman Emperor is! Compare his fine sentence: “If gods care not for me or my... ...just as the first Christians were accused of indulgence in or- gies by the Romans. It is probable that there never has been a century in which the del... ...eauty. They read his character, not in the disordered world of man, but in romantic and har- monious nature. Of human sin they know perhaps little in ... ...ourignon, a good woman, much persecuted in her day by both Protestants and Catholics, because she would not take her religion at second hand. When a y... ...en will serve as a specimen of the orthodox philosophical theology of both Catholics and Protestants. Newman, filled with enthusiasm at God’s list of ... ...gativity of it is to the Catholic mind incomprehensible. To intel- lectual Catholics many of the antiquated beliefs and practices to which the Church ...

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... .................................................. 98 CHAPTER XV: A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE ...................................................................... ...e, some have ap- peared already in The Cornhill, Longman ’s, Scribner, The english Illustrated, The Magazine of Art, The contemporary Review; three ar... ... cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Mic... ...heir air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape. When the Scotch child sees them first he... ...nd body, more active, fonder of eat- ing, endowed with a lesser and a less romantic sense of life and of the future, and more immersed in present circ... ...e never con- demned anybody else. I have no doubt that he held all Ro- man Catholics, Atheists, and Mahometans as considerably out of it; I don’t beli...

...islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking woman. English itself, which will now frank the traveller through the most of North America, throug...

................. 92 CHAPTER XIV: A GOSSIP ON A NOVEL OF DUMAS?S ............................................................ 98 CHAPTER XV: A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE ................................................................................. 106 CHAPTER XVI: A HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE ........................................................................117...