| Thomas De Quincey - 1896 - 172 lehte
...Thomas, brought lip among girls and women, was thoughtful and imaginative. "From my birth," he says, " I was made an intellectual creature, and intellectual...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been even from my schoolboy days." 1 Add that he was finely sensitive, and you will see that such a boy,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1897 - 132 lehte
...and brilliant, though sometimes prejudiced, critic. ADDITIONAL CRITICAL OPINIONS. MY life has been on the whole the life of a philosopher ; from my birth...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been. THOMAS DE QUINCEY. Although his chief excellences may not be fully perceptible, except to mature tastes,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1898 - 282 lehte
...last. 30 For my own part, without breach of truth or modesty, I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher : from my...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days. If opium-eating be a sensual pleasure, and if I am bound to confess that... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 lehte
...intellectual. "Without breach of truth or modesty," he says, " I may affirm that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher ; from my...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days." Even his irrepressible humor has an eminently intellectual flavor. De... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1900 - 264 lehte
...the last. For my own part, without breach of truth or modesty, I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher : from my...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, 25 even from my schoolboy days. If opium-eating be a sensual pleasure, and if I am bound to confess... | |
| Henry S. Salt - 1904 - 140 lehte
...incidental blemish in a long and honourable career. " I may affirm," he wrote, " that my life has been on the whole the life of a philosopher: from my birth...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been." Nor was this all; for what is especially praiseworthy in De Quincey, yet has not received one half... | |
| John William Cunliffe - 1904 - 344 lehte
...wrote, years afterwards : " Without breach of truth or modesty I may affirm that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher : from my...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days." In 1807 he paid a visit to Coleridge and escorted Mrs. Coleridge and... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 lehte
...intellectual. " Without breach of truth or modesty," he says, " I may affirm that my life ha^s been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher; from my birth...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days." Even his irrepressible humor has an eminently intellectual flavor. De... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 lehte
...intellectual. " Without breach of truth or modesty," he says, " I may affirm that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher; from my birth...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days." Even his irrepressible humor has an eminently intellectual flavor. De... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1906 - 206 lehte
...was occupied constantly during his early years with books and daydreams. "From my birth," he says, "I was made an intellectual creature, and intellectual...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been even from my schoolboy days." He first received instruction from a clergyman in Manchester; he spent... | |
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