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The Works of Thomas De Quincey, "The English Opium Eater": Including All His ... - Page 197
by Thomas De Quincey - 1863
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volume 3

1823 - 584 pages
...new world may step in, this world must tor a time disappear. The murderers, and the murder, must be insulated — cut off by an immeasurable gulf from...dread armistice: time must be annihilated; relation to thing! without abolished; and all must pass self-withdrawn into a deep syncope and suspension of earthly...
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English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...for a time disappear. The murderers and the murder must he insulated — cut off hy an immeasurahle gulf from the ordinary tide and succession of human...locked up and sequestered in some deep recess; we must he made sensihle that the world of ordinary life is suddenly arrested — laid asleep — tranced —...
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The North British Review, Volume 39

English literature - 1863 - 634 pages
...step in, this world must for a time disappear. The murderers and the murder must be insulated—cut off by an immeasurable gulf from the ordinary tide and succession of human affairs—locked up and sequestered in some deep recess; we must be made sensible that the world of...
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The Art of Conversation and Other Papers

Thomas De Quincey - Conversation - 1863 - 346 pages
...step in, this world must for a. time disappear. The murderers, and the murder must be insulated—cut off by an immeasurable gulf from the ordinary tide and succession of human affairs—locked up and sequestered in some deep recess ; we must be made sensible that the world of...
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The Progressive English reading books, Volume 4

Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 pages
...The murderers and the murder must be insulated — cut off by an immeasurable gulf from the ordinarv tide and succession of human affairs — locked up...dread armistice: time must be annihilated; relation to tilings without abolished; and all must pass self-withdrawn into a deep syncope and suspension of earthly...
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Outlook and Independent, Volume 66

1900 - 1070 pages
...a new world may step in, this world must for a time disappear. The murderers and the murder must be insulated — cut off by an immeasurable gulf from...armistice ; time must be annihilated, relation to things abolished : and all must pass self-withdrawn into a deep syncope and suspension of earthly passion....
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Macbeth

William Shakespeare - 1873 - 524 pages
...new world may step in, this world must for a time disappear. The murderers, and the murder, must be insulated, — cut off by an immeasurable gulf from the ordinary tide and succession of human aflairs, — locked up and sequestered in some deep recess ; we must be made sensible that the world...
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Shakespeare: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art

Edward Dowden - 1875 - 448 pages
...new world may step in, this world must for a time disappear. The murderers, and the murder must be insulated — cut off by an immeasurable gulf from the ordinary tide and succession of human affairs ; we must be made sensible that the world of ordinary life is suddenly arrested, — laid asleep, —...
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Literary Criticism

Thomas De Quincey - Criticism - 1876 - 590 pages
...off by an immeasurable gulph from the ordinary tide and succession of human affairs — locked tip and sequestered in some deep recess ; we must be made...relation to things without abolished; and all must pass self- with drawn into a deep syncope and suspension of eartlily passion. Hence it is, that when the...
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The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 4

Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 596 pages
...time disappear. The murderers, and the murder, must be insulated — cut off by an immeasurable gulph from the ordinary tide and succession of human affairs...tranced — racked into a dread armistice ; time must bo annihilated ; relation to things without abolished; and all must pass self-withdrawn into a deep...
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