 | 1821 - 724 Seiten
...markets and theatres are not the appropriate haunts of the opium-eater, when in the divincst state incident to his enjoyment. In that state, crowds become...silence, as indispensable conditions of those trances, or profoundest reveries, which are the crown and consummation of what opium can do for human nature. I,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 Seiten
...that markets and theatres are not the appropriate haunts of the opium-eater when in the divinest state incident to his enjoyment. In that state, crowds become...music even, too sensual and gross. He naturally seeks soliti.de and silence, as indispensable conditions of those trances, or profoundest reveries, which... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 316 Seiten
...markets and theatres are not the appropriate haunts of the opium-eater, when in the divinest state incident to his enjoyment. In that state, crowds become...silence, as indispensable conditions of those trances, or profoundest reveries, which are the crown and consummation of what opium can do for human nature. I,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 300 Seiten
...that markets and theatres are not the appropriate haunts of the opium-eater, when in the dwinest state incident to his enjoyment. In that state, crowds become...silence, as indispensable conditions of those trances, or profoundest reveries, which are the crown and consummation of what opium can do for human nature. I,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 324 Seiten
...markets and theatres are not the appropriate haunts of the opium-eater, when in the divinest state incident to his enjoyment. In that state, crowds become...silence, as indispensable conditions of those trances, or profoundest reveries, which are the crown and consummation of what opium can do for human nature. I,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 312 Seiten
...markets and theatres are not the appropriate haunts of the opium-eater, when in the divinest state incident to his enjoyment. In that state, crowds become...silence, as indispensable conditions of those trances, or profoundest reveries, which are the crown and consummation of what opium can do for human nature. I,... | |
 | 1851 - 682 Seiten
...be described as, strictly speaking, "a. solitary vice." " The opium-eater," observes our author, " naturally seeks solitude and silence as indispensable conditions of those trances or profoundest reveries which are the crown and consummation of what opium can do for nature;" but even... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 290 Seiten
...markets and theatres are not the appropriate haunts of the opium-eater, when in the divinest state incident to his enjoyment. In that state, crowds become...silence, as indispensable conditions of those trances, or profoundest reveries, which are the crown and consummation of what opium can do for human nature. I,... | |
 | James Finlay Weir Johnston - 1855 - 410 Seiten
...theatres," says De Quincey, " are not the appropriate haunts of the opium-eater when in the divinest state incident to his enjoyment. In that state crowds become...silence as indispensable conditions of those trances or profoundest reveries, which are the crown and consummation of what opium can do for human nature. At... | |
 | James Finlay Weir Johnston - 1855 - 388 Seiten
...theatres," says De Quincey, " are not the appropriate haunts of the opium-eater when in the divinest state incident to his enjoyment. In that state crowds become...silence as indispensable conditions of those trances or profoundest reveries, which are the crown and consummation of what opium can do for human nature. At... | |
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In that state, crowds become an oppression to him ; music even, too sensual and gross. He naturally seeks solitude and silence, as indispensable conditions of those trances, or 
