{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Qass\\nBook\\nCOPYRIGHT DEPOSIT", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "3 X.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "THOMAS DE QUINCEY.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THE CONFESSIONS\\nOF\\nAN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER\\nBn ns an l\u00c2\u00a3.rtract from i\\\\}t ilife of a Sdjolar\\nTHOMAS DE QUINCEY\\nM\\n(Reprinted froui The London Magazine for September and October,\\n1821, and December, 182 2)\\nEDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES\\nBY\\nARTHUK BEATTY, Ph.D.\\nINSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH IN THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN\\nChoice iooi (l and measured phrase, above the reach\\nOf ordinary men a. stcttely speech.\\nt\\nTHE. ^^ACMILLAN COMPANY\\nLONDON: MACMILLAN CO., Ltd.\\n1900\\nAll rights reserved", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "TWO COPIES REtJSlVfiO,\\nOffios of thi\\nAPR 12 1900\\nfiegletir ef eopyrlghtft\\n56710\\nCopyright, 1900,\\nBy the M ACM ill an COMPANY.\\nI\\nt\\nSECOND COPY,\\nNortoool) ^ress\\nJ. S. Gushing Co. Berwick Smith\\nNorwood Mass. U.S.A.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION XV\\nto maintain himself during a tramp in the Welsh\\nmountains. He wandered about Wales from July to\\nNovember, 1802, keeping up a correspondence with\\nhis friends at first but later he cut himself off from\\nthem completely, thus depriving himself of his allow-\\nance from home, which had been granted on condition\\nof his keeping his friends informed of his whereabouts.\\nHis vagrancy began in Wales, and in November, 1802,\\nhe took that wonderful plunge into London (to\\nuse Masson s w^ords) and now began that all-impor-\\ntant period of his vagrancy his life in London.\\nHe himself calls this episode an impassioned paren-\\nthesis in his life and such, indeed, it is, for the\\nsufferings he now endured, united with those endured\\nin Wales, caused the disorders which led to the taking\\nof opium, with all the amazing consequences. The\\nevents of this period are all told in the Confessions\\nwith such delicacy and candor that nothing more can\\nbe added.\\nBy some means a way was opened for a return to\\nhis friends, and in the autumn of 1803 we find him\\nduly entered as a student at Worcester College, Ox-\\nford. Here he remained for four years, practically\\nunknown, but busily engaged in reading all manner\\nof books, especially those of English literature. It\\nwas during this period that he learned the use of\\nopium, on one of his frequent visits to Loudon, in", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "XVI INTRODUCTION\\n1804. Just before graduation he suddenly left the\\nUniversity, because his great shyness led him to fear\\nthe oral examinations, despite the fact that he had\\npassed most brilliant written ones.\\nNext year, 1808, we find him in London, ostensibly\\nstudying law, but in reality carrying on his reading\\nover still greater ranges of literature and science, and\\nmaking the acquaintance of many of the leading\\nliterary men of the day. Such was his faith in Cole-\\nridge, that, soon after he made his acquaintance, he\\ngave him \u00c2\u00a3300, through Cottle, Coleridge s publisher.\\nAt this time began his acquaintance with Charles\\nLamb, which later ripened into intimacy. Through\\nColeridge he also met Wordsworth, with whom he had\\nbeen carrying on a correspondence from the earliest\\nyears of his university course.\\nIn 1809, as a result of this meeting, De Quincey\\nwent to live at Grasmere, in order that he might be\\nnear Wordsworth. Here he lived his bachelor life\\nuntil 1816, when he married Margaret Simpson, the\\ndaughter of a statesman, or hereditary farmer, of\\nWestmoreland. He remained in Grasmere until 1821,\\nengaged in his extensive reading, in writing for the\\nWestmoreland Gazette, BlackivoocVs Edinhtirgh Maga-\\nzine, the Quarterly Bevieto, and in editing the West-\\nmoreland Gazette for a year. In spite of the fact that\\nhis writing brought him in considerable income, his", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION xvii\\nextravagant habits consumed this, together with the\\nsomewhat large inheritance from his father and he\\nbegan to feel the pinch of want. So, in the year 1820,\\nhe went down to London to seek for literary opportu-\\nnities, and was fortunate enough to secure an intro-\\nduction to Taylor and Hessey, the publishers of the\\nLondon Magazine, the most important London peri-\\nodical at that time. As a result of this introduction\\nthere appeared, in the September and October num-\\nbers for 1821, a long, anonymous article in two parts,\\nentitled The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater\\nBeing an Extract from the Life- of a Scholar. The\\ngreatest interest was aroused De Quincey s career was\\ndetermined and from this time forward his energies\\nexpressed themselves almost exclusively in contribu-\\ntions to the magazines.\\nHe soon returned to his wife and family in Gras-\\nmere, and continued to live there until 1828, when he\\nwent to Edinburgh in search of a wider literary field\\nthan was afforded him by the Lake district. Edin-\\nburgh was well known to him, as were many of the\\nleading literary lights of the northern capital, since\\nhe had visited that city in the winter of 1814-1815, for\\nthe purpose of visiting John Wilson, better known in\\nliterature as Christopher North, with whom De Quincey\\nhad been made acquainted by Wordsworth. Relying\\non his acquaintance with the literary men of Edin-", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "xviii INTRODUCTION\\nburgh, he went in hopes of relieving his increasing\\nfinancial difficulties by means of profitable literary\\nwork nor was he disappointed, for he began almost\\nat once to write for BlackwoocVs Magazine^ and for\\nTait s Magazine. In a couple of years he began to\\nfeel somewhat established in Edinburgh, and in 1830\\nMrs. De Quincey and the children came to live with\\nhim. They lived here and there in the city, never\\nremaining long in one place. In 1837 Mrs. De Quincey\\ndied, and in 1840 De Quincey and his children settled\\nin Lasswade, near Edinburgh, where he made his\\nhome for the rest of his life, though he spent most of\\nhis time in lodgings in the city.\\nThere is little more to tell about him. From 1851\\nto 1859 his time was largely taken up with gathering\\nhis writings from the various magazines to which he\\nhad contributed, into a collected edition. So great\\nwas his popularity in Am.erica that, in 1851, Mr. Fields\\nbegan the issue of a collective edition; and in 1853\\nHogg, the publisher of Hogg^s Instructor, to which\\nDe Quincey was at this time a regular contributor, took\\nthe hint from the American publisher, and urged\\nDe Quincey s consent to a similar enterprise. The first\\nvolume appeared in 1853, and the last one in 1860, the\\nyear after his death, which occurred on the 8th of\\nDecember, 1859.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION XIX\\nHISTORY OF THE CONFESSIONS\\nWhen De Quincey came to London in 1821, his\\nacquaintance with Taylor and Hessey, the pro^orietors\\nof the London Magazine, led to the publication of the\\nConfessions of an English Opium-Eater in the columns\\nof that periodical. The Confessions appeared in the\\nSeptember and October numbers for 1821, occupying\\npages 293 to 312 (in double columns), and 353 to 379\\nof Volume IV. These portions consist of Parts I. and\\nII. in their short, original form.\\nThe interest aroused by these papers was very great\\nand in connection with a note sent by De Quincey, cor-\\nrecting a slight chronological error in the first part, the\\neditor speaks, in the October number, of the articles in\\nthe following terms\\nWe are not often in the habit of eulogising our own work\\nbut we cannot neglect the opportunity which the following\\nexplanatory note gives us of calling the attention of our readers\\nto the deep, eloquent, and masterly paper which stands first in\\nour present number. Such Confessions, so powerfully uttered,\\ncannot fail to do more than interest the reader.\\nThe public clamored for still more Confessions; and\\nin a letter printed in the December number of the\\nLondon Magazine for 1821 De Quincey promised to\\nsupply this demand by a Third Part which would", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "XX INTR OD UCTION\\nrecord the particular effects of Opium between 1804-\\n12, and which he hoped to draw up with such as-\\nsistance from fuller memoranda as he should be able\\nto command on his return to the north. The editors\\ndefinitely announced this promised Third Part in the\\nsame number of their magazine; but months passed\\non, and no Third Part appeared. Finally, in the De-\\ncember number of 1822, or one year after the prom-\\nise of the Third Part, there appeared an Appendix to\\nthe Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, on pages\\n512-517 of Volume VI. This Appendix had been pre-\\npared for the Confessions, on their publication in book\\nform in 1822, and serves as an apology by both author\\nand publisher for the non-appearance of the long-\\npromised Third Part. This Ai^pendix, so well char-\\nacterized by Masson as whimsical, has little or no\\nconnection with the rest of the book, and destroys its\\nsymmetry. It must not be thought of as being a part\\nof the work in any artistic sense, as it does nothing\\ntoward making us better understand or appreciate\\nthe earlier parts. It is reprinted in this edition only\\nbecause it was the conclusion written by De Quincey,\\nand because of its bibliographical interest.\\nThis closes the history of the work for the first\\nthirty-odd years of its existence, except that as many\\nas six editions appeared between 1821 and 1856. In\\nthe latter year the Collective Edition had reached the", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "INTBODUCTION xxi\\nfifth volume, and De Quincey himself explains the sit-\\nuation, in a letter to his daughter, October, 1855, as\\nfollows\\nA doubt had arisen whether, with my own horrible recoil\\nfrom the labour of converging and unpacking all hoards of\\nMSS., I could count on bringing together enough of the Sus-\\npira (yet unpublished) materially to enlarge the volume. If\\nnot, this volume (standing amongst sister volumes of 320-360\\npp.) would present only a beggarly amount of 120 pp. Upon\\nwhich arose this dilemma Either the volume must be strength-\\nened by the addition of papers altogether alien, which to me was\\neminently disagreeable, as breaking up the unity of the volume\\nor else, if left in the slenderness of figure, would really to my\\nfeeling involve us in an act that looked very like swindling. How\\ncould 7s. M. be reasonably charged to the public for what obvi-\\nously was but a third part in bulk of the other volumes But\\ncould not the price for this anomalous volume have been com-\\nmensurately lessened? No. Mr. H[ogg], the publisher, who\\nknows, of course, so much more than I do about such cases, as-\\nsures me that nothing so much annoys the trade as any interrup-\\ntion of the price scale upon a series of volumes. Such being the\\ncase, no remedy remained but that I should doctor the book,\\nand expand it into a portliness that might countenance its price,\\nI should, however, be misleading you if any impression were\\nleft upon your mind that I had eked out the volume by any\\nwire-drawing process on the contrary, nothing has been added\\nwhich did not originally belong to my outline of the work, hav-\\ning been left out chiefly through hurry at the period of first, i.e.\\noriginal, publication in the autumn of 1821. i\\n1 A. H. Japp, Thomas De Quincey His Life and Writings,\\npp. 387-388.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "XXll INTRODUCTION\\nAccordingly, the book was published in 1856 in a\\ngreatly enlarged form and in this same letter we have\\nthe author s own judgment on the new form of the\\nwork\\nIt is almost rewritten and there cannot be much doubt\\nthat here and there it is enlivened, and so far improved. To\\njustify the enormous labour it has cost me, most certainly it\\nought to be improved. And yet, reviewing the volume as a tvJiole,\\n}M)yv that I can look back from nearly the end to the beginning,\\ngreatly I doubt whether many readers will not prefer it in its\\noriginal fragmentary state to its present full-blown develop-\\nment. 1\\nWe thus see tliat De Quincey was very little satisfied\\nwith the improved version, and that as an artistic\\nwhole he favored the earlier version. This judgment\\nlater critics have amply upheld and the words of Gar-\\nnett admirably sum up the state of critical opinion on\\nthe subject\\nI The additions to the Opium-Eater are for the most part\\nbrilliant superfluities. They are not indeed mere excrescences,\\nand may rather be compared to those excursions and variations\\ninto which a musician may be betrayed by consciousness of mas-\\ntery and pleasure in execution until he has lost sight of his origi-\\nnal theme. They convert the brief, pregnant narrative of one\\nepisode in a life into a diffuse autobiography.\\n1 A. H. Japp, Thomas De Quincey His Life and Writings,\\npp. 387-388.\\n2 Richard Garnett, Confessions, p. viii.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION xxiii\\nThere can be no doubt that this is perfectly true for\\nin the enlarged edition the First Part is intolerably-\\nlong and involved, to the extent of positive obscurity.\\nBut even if the two versions were more equally mer-\\nitorious, the fact that the work in its original form had\\nbeen before the public for over thirty years as the only\\nversion, and the fact that it had been recognized as\\none of the minor English classics long before the re-\\nvised edition made its appearance, abundantly justifies\\nus in preferring the earlier version, even though it is\\nnot the authoritative form.\\nThe work as it appeared in the magazine is chosen\\nas the text of the present edition, rather than the re-\\nprint of 1822, because it is probably nearer to what\\nDe Quincey actually wrote than that volume. At any\\nrate, it is probable that it received somewhat more\\nattention in proof. (See p. 162.)\\nSTYLE OF THE CONFESSIONS\\nIn the biographical sketch of De Quincey we have\\ntried to point out the truth of the various incidents\\nrecorded in the work, and thus to show that the book\\nis a very real human document, a veritable tran-\\nscript from the author s life. But, while this is true,\\nand while this faithfulness and truth to his unique\\nexperiences does give to the book an enduring interest,", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "XXIV INTR OD UCTION\\nit remains true that the permanence and lasting qual-\\nity of the book does not arise from this cause, but from\\nsomething far different. Many books live for no reason\\nother than that the things they contain are of last-\\ning value. They contain the thoughts, the ideas, or\\nthe principles, that mankind most needs for its best\\nlife and so their content alone guarantees their last-\\ning vitality, in spite of the lapse of time and indepen-\\ndently of the faults or excellences of the manner in\\nwhich the contents are expressed. Other books, again,\\nlive, not because the thoughts or principles that they\\ncontain are important, but often because their very\\nmediocre thought, which has very little worth in its\\nnaked form, acquires a new value through perfection\\nof expression. Such books live, as we say, by their\\nstyle; and it is to this latter class that the Confessions\\nbelongs for, w^hile the matter contained in the book\\nis not by any means trivial or mediocre, it remains true\\nthat the book is not the expression of any great thought\\nor principle. Of course, the book derives a great part\\nof its interest from the unique experience which it re-\\ncords, and from the intimate view it gives us of the\\nauthor s personality, his sensations, his ideas, and his\\nfeelings but, on the other hand, none of the things\\nrecorded in the book have any very great value, in the\\nintellectual or moral sense of the word. Indeed, we\\nmay say that, in common with the whole class of con-", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION xxv\\nfessions, the book labors under the disadvantage of\\napproaching to morbidity, because it records things and\\nexperiences that are usually regarded as too personal\\nand intimate for public view. Moreover, the book is\\na revelation of the rise and progress of a vice, with all\\nits frightful and demoralizing consequences. From\\nthis charge of morbidity the book is delivered only\\nby the childlike purity and delicacy of the author s\\ntreatment.\\nNor does the book reveal any excuse for its being\\nwritten because of some great moral or ethical impulse\\nwhich drove the author to expression. Indeed, there\\nis little or no interest in questions of conduct or mo-\\nrality shown in the book, nor does the author seem to\\nhave considered in any serious way the possible serious\\nconsequences of his revelations. He does defend him-\\nself from the charge of sensuality in his indulgence in\\nopium-eating and of a lack of moral sense, but he does\\nnot enter very heartily into the defence, nor is it woven\\ninto the texture of the narrative. It is not meant by\\nthis that De Quincey was immoral all that is meant\\nis that his very purity and childlike simplicity did\\nnot permit him to see the possible moral question\\ninvolved, from the grosser standpoint of the average\\nmortal.\\nSince the Confessions contains no great intellectual\\nor moral matter, how are we then to account for the", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "XXVI INTRODUCTION\\nundoubted vitality of the book There is only one\\nanswer, and that is that the book is great and impor-\\ntant as literature because of its style. When we con-\\nsider its style, we see why almost from its first\\npublication it was regarded as a minor classic for\\nit has those qualities that are characteristic of all\\ngreat literature distinction of treatment, choiceness\\nof word and phrase, adequacy of expression by means\\nof which the thought and emotion of the book stand\\nout in all the clearness of their original conception.\\nBut while the book is distinguished by its style, the\\nstyle possesses a peculiar quality. It is not a style of\\nrounded fulness, such as is the expression of a man,\\nwho, full of thought and burning with emotion, can\\nyet fuse both and give utterance to what is in him in\\ncalm and balanced phrase. The style, as is the case\\nwith most writers, is more or less one-sided and the\\nquality lacking in De Quincey is the intellectual one,\\nwdiile the emotional and imaginative qualities stand\\nout with distinctive excellence. By this is not meant\\nthat the style is not clear clear it certainly is, in that\\nthe thought is adequately expressed, but the clearness\\nis not so much the clearness of the logical faculty as\\nthe clearness of the feelings. In nearly every case\\nthe clearness is not clearness of thought solely and\\nsimply, but it is that clearness which loses itself in\\nvividness of feeling and emotion. To be sure, De", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION- xxvii\\nQuincey himself lias laid claim to being an analytical\\nand logical thinker, and others have supported it but\\nhis work, as a body, contains comparatively little ana-\\nlytical thought. At any rate, the ]3arts that display\\nhis analytic faculty are not the memorable or char-\\nacteristic parts by which he lives in literature. His\\nbest and most distinctive work is the outcome of the\\nopposite mode of thought, that is, the imaginative.^\\nThe words and phrases are chosen, not to dissect the\\nidea or thing, so to speak, but to paint it as it is in\\nreal life, palpitating Avith vitality, and surrounded\\nwith all the associated ideas and emotions with which\\nwe surround the persons and things in daily life. He\\nsays in the Confessions that he was made an intel-\\nlectual creature from his birth, and that intellec-\\ntual in the highest sense his pursuits and interests\\nwere. But while De Quincey undoubtedly Avas inter-\\nested profoundly in the things of the mind, over all\\nthe book there is an atmosphere, not of intellectuality,\\nbut of sentiment and feeling. Macaulay and Matthew\\nArnold are intellectual and we have only to mention\\nthese names to bring out the difference between their\\npages and those of the Confessions. The characteristic\\npassages of the Confessions the flight from school,\\nthe trunk, the outcast Ann, the incident of the Malay,\\nand lastly the magnificent opium-drearas would all\\nbecome either trivial or vulgar or ridiculous, were it", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "xxvill INTRODUCTION\\nnot for the ennobling touch of the sweet and pensive\\nmelancholy with which the whole book is suffused.\\nIn such creations the intellect plays only a very sub-\\nordinate part feeling and imagination are their very\\nlife and substance. Indeed, so dominant are De\\nQuincey s sensations and emotions that they seem\\nto get the better of his judgment at times. Hence\\nthe somewhat irreverent jesting in the midst of\\nserious passages, the facetious digressions, and the\\nhundred other irritating peculiarities with which his\\nreaders are familiar. Such blemishes are very few\\nin the Confessions; but they appear with sufficient\\nplainness to show that De Quincey retained the irre-\\nsponsible gayety of the child, which constantly broke\\nthrough the dignity and reserve of manhood.\\nDe Quincey s style has been called poetic; and it is\\ncertain that no prose has more nearly approached the\\nrealm of poetry, in that it exhibits a freer play of the\\nimagination than does that of almost any other writer.\\nThis is especially seen in those passages of the Con-\\nfessions which contain his impassioned addresses, and\\nin those which describe his opium-dreams. It is to\\nbe noticed that in these dreams the scenery and objects\\nare for the most part vague and undefined. Objects\\ndo not stand out clearly through the gorgeous imagery\\nand diction we are given the idea of vast extents of\\ntime and space, of centuries on centuries, of infinite", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION xxix\\ncloud, of mighty mountain all is magnificence and\\ngrandeur; but one object melts into another, not re-\\ntaining its clearness and distinctness of outline, as, for\\ninstance, in Dante, in whom the organizing intellectual\\nactivity was sufficiently strong to retain distinctness of\\noutline in the object without destroying its grandeur.\\nThese are the most striking pages in the book, and\\nthey show most clearly the characteristics of its style.\\nWhen w^e take into account this dominance of the\\nemotional over the intellectual, we are not surprised\\nto find that one of the chief sources of the peculiar\\nquality of the style is the excellence of the dioice of\\nivords. The word is the primary element out of which\\na composition in prose or verse is built up; and the poet\\nand the imaginative prose writer attach much more\\nimportance to the single word than does the intellec-\\ntual, or logical, writer. With the poet and the imagina-\\ntive prose writer, the words have an individuality, they\\nstand for something individually, and hence it is in\\nthe poet and the imaginative writer that we see the\\nmost careful choice of words. In the choice of words,\\nin this imaginative sense, the Confessions stands su-\\npreme among prose compositions. Examples abound\\nthroughout the book, of De Quincey s almost unerring\\nsense for words. Indeed, carefully to study the book\\nis in itself an education in this exquisite and all-\\nimportant branch of composition.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "XXX INTRODUCTION-\\nNot only in the choice of single words, but in the\\ngrouping of them into sentences and paragraphs, does\\nDe Quincey occupy a very high place, and in some\\nrespects a unique one. His ear is of remarkable sensi-\\ntiveness to sound effects, and his knowledge of the\\nEnglish vocabulary is so extensive that his sentences\\nand paragraphs are things of beauty in themselves\\nand are so remarkable for stately rhythm, or for\\nsweetness of sound, or for smoothness of flow, that we\\ndo not notice the extreme slightness of the thought\\nthat often underlies them. As Leslie Stephen says\\nLanguage, according to the common phrase, is the dress of\\nthought and that dress is the best, according to modern canons\\nof taste, which attracts least attention from its wearer. De\\nQuincey scorns this sneaking maxim of prudence, and boldly\\nchallenges our admiration by appearing in the richest colouring\\nthat can be got out of the dictionary. His language deserves a\\ncommendation sometimes bestowed by ladies upon rich gar-\\nments, that it is capable of standing up by itself. The form\\nis so admirable that, for purposes of criticism, we must con-\\nsider it as something apart from the substance, f The most ex-\\nquisite passages in De Quincey s writings are all more or less\\nattempts to carry out the idea expressed in the title of the\\ndream fugue. They are intended to be musiccil compositions,\\nin which words have to play the part of notes. They are im-\\npassioned, not in the sense of expressing any definite sentiment,\\nbut because, from the structure and combination of the sen-\\ntences, they harmonise with certain phases of emotion. i\\n1 Leslie Stephen, Hours in a Library^ First Series, pp. 356-357.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "IN TROD UCTION xxxi\\nDe Quincey has divided literature into two classes\\nthe literature of knoivledge and the literature of power.\\nIt is to this latter class that his own writings belong\\nand they belong to it, not because they show a high\\norder of constructive imagination, but almost solely\\nbecause they show a marvellous power of expressing\\nemotion in the inevitable word or phrase, which stands\\nout as a thing of perfect beauty in itself. They live\\nbecause they are the expression of a man who is\\nkeenly alive to a few of the primary feelings and\\nemotions of himself and of humanity, and who ex-\\npresses them in language which is so perfect a mirror\\nthat we feel and experience these feelings and emo-\\ntions almost as vividly as in life. Perhaps the words\\nof Wordsworth that are quoted on the title-page do not\\nfall far short of a definitive summary of De Quincey s\\ndistinctive significance in English prose\\nChoice word and measured phrase, above the reach\\nOf ordinary men; a stately speech.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "BIBLIOGRAPHY\\n(1) Works De Quincey s Collected Writings, edited by David\\nMasson, 14 vols., veitli good index. London.\\nDe Quincey s Works, 14 vols. Boston.\\n(2) Confessions of an English Opium-Eater\\nThe London Magazine, September and October,\\n1821 December, 1822.\\nFirst edition (in book form), English edition,\\n1822.\\nAmerican edition, eilited by Fields,\\n1851.\\nEdited by Garnett, 1885.\\nEdited by Sharp, 1886.\\nSecond edition, 1850.\\nEdited by Hunter, 1896.\\nPartly first and partly second edition, edited by\\nWauchope, 1898.\\n(3) Life of De Quincey\\nAutobiography, Vols. I. and II, of Collected\\nWritings.\\nH. A. Page (i.e. A. IT. Japp), Thomas De Quin-\\ncey His Life and Writings.\\nDavid Masson, De Quincey (in English Men of\\nLetters Series).\\nxxxii", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "BIBLIOGRAPHY XXXIU\\nH. A. Page {i.e. A. H. Japp), De Quincey 3Ie-\\nmorials.\\nJames Hogg, De Quincey and his Friends.\\n(Contains very interesting and valuable rem-\\niniscences and recollections by Woodliouse,\\nEae-Brown, Findlay, Hogg, Jacox, Payn\\nessays by Burton and Hodgson and a Life by\\nPage (Japp).\\n(4) Criticism\\nLeslie Stephen, Life of De Quiticey (in Dictionary\\nof National Biography).\\nPeter Bayne, Essays on Biography and Criticism.\\nJ. Scott Cla,rk, A Study of English Prose Writers.\\nG. Gilfillan, Literary Portraits.\\nShadwortli Hodgson, The Genius of De Quincey\\n(in Outcast Essays, or in Hogg s De Quincey\\nand his Friends).\\nT. W. Hunt, Bepresentative English Prose.\\nDavid Masson, Essays Biographical and Critical.\\nW. Minto, English Prose Literature.\\nMrs. Oliphant, Victorian Age of English Litera-\\nture.\\nGeorge Saintsbury, Essays on English Literature,\\n{1780-1860).\\nLeslie Stephen, Hours in a Library, I.\\nAtlantic Monthly, XII., 345-308.\\nQuarterly Review, CCX., 1-35.\\nBevue des deux mondes, CXXXVIIL, 116-146,\\nand 343-376.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH\\nOPIUM-EATER\\nPART T\\nTO THE READER\\nI HERE present you, courteous reader, with the\\nrecord of a remarkable period in my life according\\nto my application of it, I trust that it will prove, not\\nmerely an interesting record, but, in a considerable\\ndegree, useful and instructive. In that hope it is, that\\nI have drawn it up and that must be my apology for\\nbreaking through that delicate and honourable reserve,\\nwhich, for the most part, restrains us from the public\\nexposure of our own errors and infirmities. Nothing,\\nindeed, is more revolting to English feelings, than the\\nspectacle of a human being obtruding on our notice\\nhis moral ulcers or scars, and tearing away that\\ndecent drapery, which time, or indulgence to\\nB 1", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "2 CONFESSION S OF AN\\nhuman frailty, may have drawn over them accord-\\ningly, the greater part of our confessions (that is,\\nspontaneous and extra-judicial confessions) proceed\\nfrom demireps, adventurers, or swindlers and for any\\n5 such acts of gratuitous self-humiliation from those\\nwho can be supposed in sympathy with the decent\\nand self-respecting part of society, we must look to\\nFrench literature, or to \u00c2\u00b0that part of the German,\\nwhich is tainted with the spurious and defective sensi-\\n10 bility of the French. All this I feel so forcibly, and\\nso nervously am I alive to reproach of this tendency,\\nthat I have for many months hesitated about the pro-\\npriety of allowing this, or any part of my narrative,\\nto come before the public eye, until after my death\\n15 (when, for many reasons, the whole will be published)\\nand it is uot without an anxious review of the reasons,\\nfor and against this step, that I have, at last, concluded\\non taking it.\\nGuilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from\\n20 public notice they court privacy and solitude and,\\neven in their choice of a grave^ will sometimes seques-\\nter themselves from the general population of the\\nchurchyard, as if declining to claim fellowship with\\nthe great family of man, and wishing (in the affecting\\n25 language of Mr. AVordsworth)", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 3\\n\u00c2\u00b0liumbly to express\\nA penitential loneliness.\\nIt is well, upon the whole, and for the interest of\\nus all, that it should be so nor would I willingly, in\\nmy own person, manifest a disregard of such salutary 5\\nfeelings; nor in act or word do anything to weaken\\nthem. But, on the one hand, as my self-accusation\\ndoes not amount to a confession of guilt, so, on the\\nother, it is possible that, if it did, the benefit resulting\\nto others, from the record of an experience purchased 10\\nat so heavy a price, might compensate, by a vast over-\\nbalance, for any violence done to the feelings I have\\nnoticed, and justify a breach of the general rule.\\nInfirmity and misery do not, of necessity, imply\\nguilt. They approach, or recede from, the shades of 15\\nthat dark alliance, in proportion to the probable\\nmotives and prospects of the offender, and the j^allia-\\ntions, known or secret, of the offence in proportion\\nas the temptations to it were potent from the first,\\nand the resistance to it, in act or in effort, was earnest 20\\nto the last. For my own part, without breach of truth\\nor modesty, I may aftirm, that my life has been, on the\\nwhole, the life of a ])hilosopher from my birth I was\\nmade an intellectual creature and intellectual in the\\nhighest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, 25", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "4 COyFUSSlOJVS OF AN\\neven from my schoolboy days. If opium-eating be a\\nsensual pleasure, and if I am bound to confess that I\\nhave indulged in it to an excess, \u00c2\u00b0not yet recorded of\\nany other man, it is no less true, that I have struggled\\n5 against this fascinating enthralment with a religious\\nzeal, and have, at length, accomplished what I never\\nyet heard attributed to any other man have untwisted,\\nalmost to its final links, the accursed chain which fet-\\ntered me. Such a self-conquest may reasonably be\\n10 set off in counterbalance to any kind or degree of self-\\nindulgence, Not to insist, that in my case, the self-\\nconquest was unquestionable, the self-indulgence open\\nto doubts of casuistry, according as that name shall be\\nextended to acts aiming at the bare relief of pain, or\\n1 5 shall be restricted to such as aim at the excitement of\\npositive pleasure.\\nGuilt, therefore, I do not acknowledge and, if I\\ndid, it is possible that I might still resolve on the\\npresent act of confession, in consideration of the ser-\\n20 vice which I may thereby render to the whole class\\nof opium-eaters. But who are they Keader, I am\\nsorry to say, a very numerous class indeed. Of this\\nI became convinced some years ago, by computing, at\\nthat time, the number of those in one small class of\\n25 English society (the class of men distinguished for", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 5\\ntalents, or of eminent station), who were known to\\nme, directly or indirectly, as opium-eaters; such for\\ninstance, as the eloquent and benevolent William\\nWilberforce] the late \u00c2\u00b0Dean of [Carlisle] \u00c2\u00b0Lord [Ers-\\nkine] \u00c2\u00b0Mr. the philosopher a late \u00c2\u00b0Under-Sec- 5\\nretary of State (who described to me the sensation\\nwhich first drove him to the use of opiuii, in the very\\nsame words as the Dean of [Carlisle], viz. that he\\nfelt as though rats were gnawing and abrading the\\ncoats of his stomach \u00c2\u00b0Mr. [Coleridge]; and many 10\\nothers, hardly less known, whom it would be tedious\\nto mention. Now, if one class, comparatively so\\nlimited, could furnish so many scores of cases (and\\nthat within the knowledge of one single inqiurer), it\\nwas a natural inference, that the entire population of 15\\nEngland would furnish a proportionable number. The\\nsoundness of this inference, however, I doubted, until\\nsome facts became known to me, which satisfied me,\\nthat it was not incorrect. I will mention two: 1. Three\\nrespectable London druggists, in widely remote quarters 20\\nof London, from whom I happened lately to be purchas-\\ning small quantities of opium, assured me, that the num-\\nber of amateur opium-eaters (as I may term them) was,\\nat this time, immense and that the difficulty of dis-\\ntinguishing those persons, to whom habit had rendered 25", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "6 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nopium necessary, from such as were purchasing it with\\na view to suicide, occasioned them daily trouble and\\ndisputes. This evidence respected London only. But,\\n2. (which will possibly surprise the reader more,)\\nsome years ago, on passing through Manchester, I was\\ninformed by several cotton manufacturers, that their\\nworkpeople were rapidly getting into the practice of\\nopium-eating; so much so, that on a Saturday after-\\nnoon the counters of the druggists were strewed with\\npills of one, two, or three grains, in preparation for\\nthe known demand of the evening. The immediate\\noccasion of this practice was the lowness of wages,\\nwhich, at that time, would not allow them to indulge\\nin ale or spirits and, wages rising, it may be thought\\nthat this practice would cease but, as I do not readily\\nbelieve that any man, having once tasted the divine\\nluxuries of opium, will afterwards descend to the\\ngross and mortal enjoyments of alcohol, I take it\\nfor granted,\\n\u00c2\u00b0That those eat now, who never ate before\\nAnd those who always ate, now eat the more.\\nIndeed the fascinating powers of opium are ad-\\nmitted, even by medical writers, who are its greatest\\nenemies: thus, for instance, \u00c2\u00b0Awsiter, apothecary to", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 7\\nGreenwich-hospital, in his Essay on the Effects of\\nOpium (published in the year 1763), when attempt-\\ning to explain, why \u00c2\u00b0Mead had not been sufficiently\\nexplicit on the properties, counteragents, c. of this\\ndrug, expresses himself in the following mysterious\\nterms (juavavra crvveTOKTi) perhaps he thought the\\nsubject of too delicate a nature to be made common;\\nand as many people might then indiscriminately use\\nit, it would take from that necessary fear and caution,\\nwhich should prevent their experiencing the extensive\\npower of this drug for there are many properties in it,\\nif universally known, that would hdhituate the use, and\\nmake it more in request with 2ts than the Turks them-\\nselves: the result of which knowledge, he adds,\\nmust prove a general misfortune. In the neces-\\nsity of this conclusion I do not altogether concur:\\nbut upon that point I shall have occasion to speak at\\nthe close of my confessions, where I shall present the\\nreader with the moral of my narrative.\\nPRELIMINARY CONFESSIONS\\nThese preliminary confessions, or introductory narra-\\ntive of the youthful adventures which laid the founda-\\ntion of the writer s habit of opium-eating in after-life.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "8 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nit has been judged proper to premise, for three several\\nreasons\\n1. As forestalling that question, and giving it a sat-\\nisfactory answer, which else Avould painfully obtrude\\n5 itself in the course of the Opium Confessions How\\ncame any reasonable being to subject himself to such\\na yoke of misery, voluntarily to incur a captivity so\\nservile, and knowingly to fetter himself with such a\\nsevenfold chain a question which, if not some-\\nlo where plausibly resolved, could hardly fail, by the in-\\ndignation which it would be apt to raise as against an\\nact of wanton folly, to interfere with that degree of\\nsympathy which is necessary in any case to an author s\\npurposes.\\n15 2, As furnishing a key to some parts of that tremen-\\ndous scenery which afterwards peopled the dreams of\\nthe Opium-eater.\\n3. As creating some previous interest of a personal\\nsort in the confessing subject, apart from the matter of\\n20 the confessions, which cannot fail to render the confes-\\nsions themselves more interesting. If a man whose\\ntalk is of oxen, should become an Opium-eater, the\\nprobability is, that (if he is not too dull to dream\\nat all) he will dream about oxen: whereas, in the\\n25 case before him, the reader will lind that the Opium-", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 9\\neater boasteth himself to be a jjliilosopher and accord-\\ningly, that the phantasmagoria of his dreams (waking\\nor sleeping, day-dreams or night-dreams) is suitable to\\none who, in that character,\\n\u00c2\u00b0Humani nihil a se aHeniim putat.\\nEor amongst the conditions which he deems indis-\\npensable to the sustaining of any claim to the title of\\nphilosopher, is not merely the possession of a superb\\nintellect in its analytic functions (in which part of\\nthe pretention, however, England can for some gen-\\nerations show but few claimants at least, he is not\\naware of any known candidate for this honour who\\ncan be styled emphatically a subtle thinker, with the\\nexception of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and in a nar-\\nrower department of thought, with the recent illustri-\\nous exception of David Eicardo) but also on such\\na constitution of the moral faculties as shall give him\\nan \u00c2\u00b0inner eye and power of intuition for the vision\\nand the mysteries of our human nature that consti-\\ntution of faculties, in short, which (amongst all the\\ngenerations of men that from the beginning of time\\nhave deployed into life, as it were, upon this planet)\\nour English poets have possessed in the highest degree\\nand Scottish professors in the lowest.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "10 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nI have often been asked how I first came to be a\\nregular opium-eater; and have suffered, very unjustly,\\nin the oi: inion of my acquaintance, from being reputed\\nto have brought upon myself all the sufferings which\\nI shall have to record, by a long course of indulgence\\nin this practice, purely for the sake of creating an\\nartificial state of pleasurable excitement. This, how-\\never, is a misrepresentation of iny case. True it is,\\nthat for nearly ten years I did occasionally take\\nopium, for the sake of the exquisite pleasure it gave\\nme but so long as I took it with this view, I was\\neffectually protected from all material bad conse-\\nquences by the necessity of interposing long intervals\\nbetween the several acts of indulgence, in order to\\nrenew the pleasurable sensations. It was not for the\\npurpose of creating pleasure, but of mitigating pain\\nin the severest degree, that I first began to use opium\\nas an article of daily diet. In the twenty-eighth year\\nof my age, \u00c2\u00b0a most painful affection of the stomach,\\nwhich I had first experienced about ten years before,\\nattacked me in great strength. This affection had\\noriginally been caused by extremities of hunger, suf-\\nfered in my boyish days. During the season of hope\\nand redundant happiness which succeeded (that is,\\nfrom eighteen to twenty-four) it had slumbered for", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 11\\nthe three following years it had revived at intervals:\\nand now, under unfavourable circumstances, from\\ndepression of spirits, it attacked me with a violence\\nthat yielded to no remedies but opium. As the youth-\\nful sufferings, which first produced this derangement\\nof the stomach, were interesting in themselves, and in\\nthe circumstances that attended them, I shall here\\nbriefly retrace them.\\nMy father died, when I was about seven j^ears old,\\nand left me to the care of four guardians. I was sent\\nto various schools, great and small and was very\\nearly distinguished for my classical attainments, espe-\\ncially for my knowledge of Greek. At thirteen, I\\nwrote Greek with ease and at fifteen my command\\nof that language was so great, that I not only com-\\nposed Greek verses in lyric metres, but could converse\\nin Greek fluently and without embarrassment an\\naccomplishment which I have not since met with in\\nany scholar of my times, and Avhich, in my case, was\\nowing to the practice of daily reading off the news-\\npapers into the best Greek I could furnish extempore\\nfor the necessity of ransacking my memory and inven-\\ntion, for all sorts and combinations of x^eriphrastic\\nexpressions, as equivalents for modern ideas, images,\\nrelations of things, c. gave me a compass of diction", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "12 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nwhich woukl never have been called out by a dull\\ntranslation of moral essays, c. That boy, said\\none of my masters, pointing the attention of a stranger\\nto me, that boy could harangue an Athenian mob,\\nbetter than you and I could address an English one.\\nHe who honoured me with this eulogy, was a scholar,\\nand a \u00c2\u00b0ripe and a good one and of all my tutors,\\nwas the only one whom I loved or reverenced. Un-\\nfortunately for me (and, as I afterwards learned, to\\nthis worthy man s great indignation), I was trans-\\nferred to the care, first of a blockhead, who was in\\na x)erpetual panic, lest I should expose his ignorance\\nand finally, to that of a respectable scholar, at the\\nhead of a great school on an ancient foundation.\\nThis man had been appointed to his situation by\\n[Brasenose] College, Oxford and was a sound, well-\\nbuilt scholar, but (like most men, whom I have known\\nfrom that college) coarse, clumsy, and inelegant. A\\nmiserable contrast he presented, in my eyes, to the\\nEtonian brilliancy of my favourite master and be-\\nsides, he could not disguise from my hourly notice,\\nthe poverty and meagreness of his understanding. It\\nis a bad thing for a boy to be, and to know himself,\\nfar beyond his tutors, whether in knowledge or in\\npower of mind. This was the case, so far as regarded", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATEJR 13\\nknowledge at least, not with myself only for the\\ntwo boys, who jointly with myself composed the first\\nform, were better Grecians than the head-master,\\nthough not more elegant scholars, nor at all more\\naccustomed to \u00c2\u00b0sacrifice to the graces. When I first\\nentered, I remember that we read \u00c2\u00b0Sophocles and it\\nwas a constant matter of triumph to us, the learjied\\ntriumvirate of the first form, to see our Archididas-\\ncalus (as he loved to be called) conning our lessons\\nbefore we went up, and laying a regular train, with\\nlexicon and grammar, for blowing up and blasting (as\\nit were) any difficulties he found in the choruses\\nwhilst we never condescended to open our books, until\\nthe moment of going up, and were generally employed\\nin writing \u00c2\u00b0epigranis upon his wig, or some such im-\\nportant matter. My two class-fellows were poor, and\\ndependant for their future prospects at the university,\\non the recommendation of the head-master: but I,\\nwho had a small patrimonial property, the income of\\nwhich was sufficient to support me at college, wished\\nto be sent thither immediately. I made earnest rep-\\nresentations on the subject to my guardians, but all\\nto no purpose. One, who was more reasonable, and\\nhad more knowledge of the world than the rest, lived\\nat a distance two of the other three resigned all their", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "14 CONFESSIOJVS OF AN\\nauthority into the hands of the fourth and this fourth\\nwith whom I had to negotiate, was a worthy man, in\\nhis way, but haughty, obstinate, and intolerant of all\\nopposition to his will. After a certain number of\\n5 letters and personal interviews, I found that I had\\nnothing to hope for, not even a compromise of the\\nmatter, from my guardian: unconditional submission\\nwas what he demanded and I prepared myself,\\ntherefore, for other measures. Summer was now com-\\nlo ing on with hasty steps, and my seventeenth birth-\\nday was fast approaching; after which day I had\\nsworn within myself, that I would no longer be num-\\nbered amongst schoolboys. Money being what I chiefly\\nwanted, I wrote to a \u00c2\u00b0woman of high rank, who,\\n5 though young herself, had known me from a child,\\nand had latterly treated me with great distinction,\\nrequesting that she would lend me five guineas.\\nFor upwards of a week no answer came and I was\\nbeginning to despond, when, at length, a servant put\\n:o into my hands a double letter, with a coronet on the\\nseal. The letter was kind and obliging: the fair\\nwriter was on the sea-coast, and in that way the delay\\nhad arisen she enclosed double of what I had asked,\\nand good-naturedly hinted, that if I should never re-\\n15 pay her, it would not absolutely rtdn her. Now then.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 15\\nI was prepared for my scheme ten guineas, added\\nto about two which I had remaining from my pocket\\nmoney, seemed to me sufficient for an indefinite length\\nof time and at that happy age, if no definite boun-\\ndary can be assigned to one s power, the spirit of hope 5\\nand pleasure makes it virtuall} infinite.\\nIt is a \u00c2\u00b0just remark of Dr. Johnson s (and what\\ncannot often be said of his remarks, it is a very feel-\\ning one), that we never do anything consciously for\\nthe last time (of things, that is, which we have long 10\\nbeen in the habit of doing) without sadness of heart.\\nThis truth I felt deeply, when I came to leave [Man-\\nchester], a place which I did not love, and where I\\nhad not been happy. On the evening before I left\\n[Manchester] for ever, I grieved when the ancient 15\\nand lofty schoolroom resounded with the evening ser-\\nvice, performed for the last time in my hearing; and\\nat night, when the muster-roll of names was called\\nover, and mine (as usual) was called first, I stepped\\nforward, and, passing the head-master, who was stand- 20\\ning by, I bowed to him, and looked earnestly in his\\nface, thinking to myself, He is old and infirm, and\\nin this world I shall not see him again. I was right\\nI never did see him again, nor ever shall. He looked\\nat me complacently, smiled goodnaturedly, returned 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "16 COIiFESSIONS OF AN\\nmy salutation (or rather, my valediction), and we\\nparted (though he knew it not) for ever. I could not\\nreverence him intellectually: but he had been uni-\\nformly kind to me, and had allowed me many indul-\\n5 gencies and I grieved at the thought of the mortifica-\\ntion I should inflict upon him.\\nThe morning came, which was to launch me into\\nthe world, and from which my whole succeeding life\\nhas, in many important points, taken its colouring. I\\n10 lodged in the head-master s house, and had been al-\\nlowed, from my first entrance, the indulgence of a\\nprivate room, which I used both as a sleeping room\\nand as a study. At half after three I rose, and gazed\\nwith deep emotion at the ancient towers of [the col-\\n15 legiate church], drest in earliest light, and beginning\\nto crimson with the radiant lustre of a cloudless July\\nmorning. I was firm and immovable in my purpose\\nbut yet agitated by anticipation of uncertain danger\\nand troubles and, if I could have foreseen the hurri-\\n20 cane, and perfect hail-storm of affliction which soon\\nfell upon me, well might I have been agitated. To\\nthis agitation the deep peace of the morning presented\\nan affecting contrast, and in some degree a medicine.\\nThe silence was more profound than that of mid-\\n25 night and to me the silence of a summer morning", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 17\\nis more toucliing than all other silence, because, the\\nlight being broad and strong, as that of noon-day at\\nother seasons of the year, it seems to differ from per-\\nfect day, chiefly because man is not yet abroad and\\nthus, the peace of nature, and of the innocent creatures 5\\nof God, seems to be secure and deep, only so long as\\nthe presence of man, and his restless and unquiet\\nspirit, are not there to trouble its sanctity. I dressed\\nmyself, took my hat and gloves, and lingered a little\\nin the room. For the last year and a half this room ic\\nhad been my pensive citadel here I had read and\\nstudied through all the hours of night: and, though\\ntrue it was, that for the latter part of this time I, who\\nwas framed for love and gentle affections, had lost my\\ngaiety and happiness, during the strife and fever of 15\\ncontention with my guardian; yet, on the other hand,\\nas a boy, so passionately fond of books, and \u00c2\u00b0dedicated\\nto intellectual ]3ursuits, I could not fail to have enjoyed\\nmany happy hours in the midst of general dejection.\\nI wept as I looked round on the chair, hearth, writ- 2c\\ning-table, and other familiar objects, knowing too cer-\\ntainly, that I looked upon them for the last time.\\nWhilst I write this, it is eighteen years ago and\\nyet, at this moment, I see distinctly as if it were\\nyesterday, the lineaments and expression of the object 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "18 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\non which I fixed my parting gaze it was a picture of\\nthe \u00c2\u00b0lovely which hung over the mantelpiece; the\\neyes and mouth of which were so beautiful, and the\\nwhole countenance so radiant with benignity, and di-\\n5 vine tranquillity, that I had a thousand times laid\\ndown my pen, or my book, to gather consolation from\\nit, as a devotee from his patron saint. Whilst I was\\nyet gazing upon it, the deep tones of [Manchester]\\nclock proclaimed that it was four o clock. I went up\\n10 to the picture, kissed it, and then gently walked out\\nand closed the door for ever\\n\u00c2\u00b0So blended and intertwisted in this life are occa-\\nsions of laughter and of tears, that I cannot yet recal,\\nwithout smiling, an incident which occurred at that\\n15 time, and which had nearly put a stop to the im-\\nmediate execution of my plan. I had a trunk of\\nimmense weight for, besides my clothes, it contained\\nnearly all my library. The difficulty was to get this re-\\nmoved to a carrier s my room was at an aerial eleva-\\n20 tion in the house, and (what was worse) the staircase,\\nwhich communicated with this angle of the building,\\nwas accessible only by a gallery, which passed the\\nhead-master s chamber door. I was a favourite with\\nall the servants and, knowing that any of them would", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 19\\nscreen me, and act confidentially, I communicated\\nmy embarrassment to a groom of the head-master s.\\nThe groom swore he would do anything I wished; and,\\nwhen the time arrived, went uj) stairs to bring the\\ntrunk down. This I feared was beyond the strength 5\\nof any one man however, the groom was a man\\n\u00c2\u00b00f Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear\\nThe weight of mightiest monarchies\\nand had a back as spacious as Salisbury plain. Ac-\\ncordingly he persisted in bringing down the trunk 10\\nalone, whilst I stood waiting at the foot of the last\\nflight, in anxiety for the event. For some time I\\nheard him descending with slow and firm steps but,\\nunfortunately, from his trepidation, as he drew near\\nthe dangerous quarter, within a few steps of the 15\\ngallery, his foot slipped and the inighty burden\\nfalling from his shoulders, gained such increase of\\nimpetus at each step of the descent, that, on reaching\\nthe bottom, it trundled, or rather leaped, right across,\\nwith the noise of twenty devils, against the very bed- 20\\nroom door of the archididascalus. My first thought\\nwas, that all was lost and that my only chance for\\nexecuting a retreat was to sacrifice my baggage. How-\\never, on reflection, I determined to abide the issue.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "20 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nThe groom was in the utmost alarm, both on his own\\naccount and on mine but, in spite of this, so irre-\\nsistibly had the sense of the ludicrous, in this un-\\nhappy \u00c2\u00b0contretems, taken possession of his fancy, that\\n5 he sang out a long, loud, and canorous peal of laugh-\\nter, that might have wakened the \u00c2\u00b0Seven Sleepers.\\nAt the sound of this resonant merriment, within the\\nvery ears of insulted authority, I could not myself\\nforbear joining in it: subdued to this, not so much by\\n10 the unhappy \u00c2\u00b0etourderie of the trunk, as by the~effect\\nit had upon the groom. We both expected, as a\\nmatter of course, that Dr. [Law son] would sally out\\nof his room: for, in general, if but a mouse stirred,\\nhe sprang out like a mastiff from his kennel.\\n15 Strange to say, however, on this occasion, when the\\nnoise of laughter had ceased, no sound, or rustling\\neven, was to be heard in the bedroom. Dr. [Lawson]\\nhad a painful complaint, which, sometimes keeping\\nhim awake, made his sleep, perhaps, when it did\\n20 come, the deeper. Gathering courage from the silence,\\nthe groom hoisted his burden again, and accomplished\\nthe remainder of his descent without accident, I\\nwaited until I saw the trunk placed on a wheel-\\nbarrow, and on its road to the carrier s then, with\\n25 Providence my guide/ I set off on foot, carrying a", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 21\\nsmall parcel, with some articles of dress, under my\\narm; \u00c2\u00b0a favourite English poet in one pocket; and\\na small 12mo. volume, containing about nine plays of\\n\u00c2\u00b0Euripides, in the other.\\nIt had been my intention originally to proceed to\\nWestmoreland, both from the love I bore to that coun-\\ntry, and on other personal accounts. Accident, how-\\never, gave a different direction to my wanderings, and\\nI bent my steps towards North Wales.\\nAfter wandering about for some time in Denbigh-\\nshire, Merionethshire, and Carnarvonshire, I took\\nlodgings in a small neat house in B[angor]. Here I\\nmight have stayed with great comfort for many weeks\\nfor, provisions were cheap at B[angor], from the scar-\\ncity of other markets for the surplus produce of a wide\\nagricultural district. An accident, however, in which,\\nperhaps, no offence was designed, drove me out to\\nwander again. I know not whether my reader may\\nhave remarked, but have often remarked, that the\\nproudest class of people in England (or at any rate,\\nthe class whose pride is most apparent) are the fami-\\nlies of bishops. Noblemen, and their children, carry\\nabout with them, in their very titles, a sufficient noti-\\nfication of their rank. Nay, their very names (and\\nthis applies also to the children of many untitled", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "22 coNFi!:ssi(jNS of an\\nhouses) are often, to the English ear, adequate expo-\\nnents of high birth, or descent. Sackville, Manners,\\nFitzroy, Paulet, Cavendish, and scores of others, tell\\ntheir own tale. Such persons, therefore, find every-\\n5 where a due sense of their claims already established,\\nexcept among those who are ignorant of the world, by\\nvirtue of their own obscurity Not to know them,\\nargues one s self unknown. Their manners take a\\nsuitable tone and colouring; and, for once that they\\n10 find it necessary to impress a sense of their conse-\\nquence upon others, they meet with a thousand occa-\\nsions for moderating and tempering this sense by acts\\nof courteous condescension. With the families of\\nbishops it is otherwise: with them it is all up-hill\\n15 work, to make known their pretensions: for the pro-\\nportion of the episcopal bench, taken from noble fami-\\nlies, is not at any time very large and the succession\\nto these dignities is so rapid, that the public ear sel-\\ndom has time to become familiar with them, unless\\n20 where they are connected with some literary reputa-\\ntion. Hence it is, that the children of bishops carry\\nabout with them an austere and repulsive air, indica-\\ntive of claims not generally acknowledged, a sort of\\n\u00c2\u00b0noli me tangere manner, nervously apprehensive of too\\n25 familiar approach, and shrinking with the sensitive-", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 23\\nness of a gouty man, from all contact with the \u00c2\u00b0ol iroX-\\n\\\\oL. Doubtless, a powerful understanding, or unusual\\ngoodness of nature, will preserve a man from such\\nweakness but, in general, the truth of my representa-\\ntion will be acknowledged: pride, if not of deeper 5\\nroot in such families, appears, at least, more upon the\\nsurface of their manners. This spirit of manners\\nnaturally cominunicates itself to their domestics, and\\nother dependants. Now, my landlady had been a\\nlady s maid, or a nurse, in the family of the Bishop 10\\nof [Bangor] and had but lately married away and\\nsettled (as such people express it) for life. In a\\nlittle town like B[angor], merely to have lived in the\\nbishop s family, conferred some distinction and my\\ngood landlady had rather more than her share of the 15\\npride I have noticed on that score. What my lord\\nsaid, and what my lord did, how useful he was in\\nparliament, and how indispensable at Oxford, formed\\nthe daily burden of her talk. All this I bore very\\nwell for I was too good-natured to laugh in anybody s 20\\nface, and I could make an ample allowance for the\\ngarrulity of an old servant. Of necessity, however, I\\nmust have appeared in her eyes very inadequately\\nimpressed with the bishop s importance and, per-\\nhaps, to punish me for my indifference, or possibly by 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "24 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\naccident, she one day repeated to me a conversation in\\nwhich I was indirectly a party concerned. She had\\nbeen to the palace to pay her respects to the family\\nand, dinner being over, was summoned into the dining-\\n5 room. In giving an account of her household econ-\\nomy, she happened to mention, that she had let her\\napartments. Thereupon the good bishop (it seemed)\\nhad taken occasion to caution her as to her selection\\nof inmates for, said he, you must recollect, Betty,\\nlo that this place is in the high road to the Head so that\\nmultitudes of Irish swindlers, running away from their\\ndebts into England and of English swindlers, run-\\nning away from their debts to the Isle of Man, are\\nlikely to take this place in their route. This advice\\n15 was certainly not without reasonable grounds but\\nrather fitted to be stored up for Mrs. Betty s private\\nmeditations, than specially reported to me. What\\nfollowed, however, was somewhat worse Oh, my\\nlord, answered my landlady (according to her own\\n20 representation of the matter), ^I really don t think\\nthis young gentleman is a swiudler because\\nYou don t think me a swindler said I, interrupting\\nher, in a tumult of indignation for the future I shall\\nspare you the trouble of tliinking about it. And with-\\n35 out delay I prepared for my departure. Some conces-", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 25\\nsions the good woman seemed disposed to make but\\na harsh and contemptuous expression, which I fear\\nthat I applied to the learned dignitary himself, roused\\nher indignation in turn and reconciliation then became\\nimpossible. I was, indeed, greatly irritated at the 5\\nbishop s having suggested any grounds of suspicion,\\nhowever remotely, against a person whom he had never\\nseen and I thought of letting him know my mind in\\nGreek which, at the same time that it would furnish\\nsome presumption that I was no swindler, would also 10\\n(I hoped) compel the bishop to reply in the same lan-\\nguage in which case, I doubted not to make it appear,\\nthat if I was not so rich as his lordship, I was a far\\nbetter Grecian. Calmer thoughts, however, drove this\\nboyish design out of my mind: for I considered, that 15\\nthe bishop was in the right to counsel an old servant\\nthat he could not have designed that his advice should\\nbe reported to me; and that the same coarseness of\\nmind, which had led Mrs. Betty to repeat the advice\\nat all, might have coloured it in a way more agreeable 20\\nto her own style of thinking, than to the actual expres-\\nsions of the worthy bishop.\\nI left the lodgings the very same hour; and this\\nturned out a very unfortunate occurrence for me\\nbecause, living henceforward at inns, I was drained of 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "26 CONFIJSSIONS OF AN\\nmy money very rapidly. In a fortnight I was reduced\\nto short allowance that is, I could allow myself only\\none meal a-day. From the keen appetite produced\\nby constant exercise, and mountain air, acting on a\\n5 youthful stomach, I soon began to suffer greatly on\\nthis slender regimen; for the single meal, which I\\ncould venture to order, was coffee or tea. Even this,\\nhowever, was at length withdrawn and afterwards,\\nso long as I remained in Wales, I subsisted either on\\nlo blackberries, hips, haws, c. or on the casual hospi-\\ntalities which I now and then received, in return for\\nsuch little services as I had an opportunity of render-\\ning. Sometimes I wrote letters of business for cot-\\ntagers, who happened to have relatives in Liverpool,\\n15 or in London more often I wrote love-letters to their\\nsweethearts for young women who had lived as ser-\\nvants at Shrewsbury, or other towns on the English\\nborder. On all such occasions I gave great satisfac-\\ntion to my humble friends, and was generally treated\\n20 with hospitality and once, in particular, near the\\nvillage of Llan-y-styndw (or some such name), in a\\nsequestered part of Merionethshire, I was entertained\\nfor upwards of three days by a family of young people,\\nwith an affectionate and fraternal kindness that left\\n25 an impression upon my heart not yet impaired. The", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 27\\nfamily consisted, at that time, of four sisters, and three\\nbrothers, all grown up, and all remarkable for elegance\\nand delicacy of manners. So much beauty, and so\\nmuch native good-breeding and refinement, I do not\\nremember to have seen before or since in any cottage, 5\\nexcept once or twice in Westmoreland and Devon-\\nshire. They spoke English: an accomplishment not\\noften met with in so many members of one family,\\nespecially in villages remote from the high-road.\\nHere I wrote, on my first introduction, a letter about 10\\nprize-money, for one of the brothers, who had served\\non board an English man of war; and more privately,\\ntwo love-letters for two of the sisters. They were\\nboth interesting looking girls, and one of uncommon\\nloveliness. In the midst of their confusion and blushes, 15\\nwhilst dictating, or rather giving me general instruc-\\ntions, it did not require any great penetration to dis-\\ncover that what they wished was, that their letters\\nshould be as kind as was consistent with proper\\nmaidenly pride. I contrived so to temper my ex- 20\\npressions, as to reconcile the gratification of both\\nfeelings: and they were as much pleased with the\\nway in which I had expressed their thoughts, as (in\\ntheir simplicity) they were astonished at my having\\nso readily discovered them. The reception one meets 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "28 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nwith from the women pf a family, generally deter-\\nmines the tenor of one s whole entertainment. In\\nthis case, I had discharged my confidential duties as\\nsecretary, so much to the general satisfaction, per-\\n5 haps also amusing them with my conversation, that I\\nwas pressed to stay with a cordiality which I had\\nlittle inclination to resist. I slept with the brothers,\\nthe only unoccupied bed standing in the apartment\\nof the young women: but in all other points they\\n10 treated me with a respect not usually paid to purses\\nas light as mine; as if my scholarship were suffi-\\ncient evidence that I was of gentle blood. Thus\\nI lived with them for three days, and great part of\\na fourth and, from the undiminished kindness which\\n15 they continued to show me, I believe! might have\\nstaid with them up to this time, if their power had\\ncorresponded with their wishes. On the last morn-\\ning, however, I perceived upon their countenances,\\nas they sate at breakfast, the expression of some un-\\n20 pleasant communication which was at hand and soon\\nafter one of the brothers explained to me that their\\nparents had gone, the day before my arrival, to an\\nannual meeting of Methodists, held at Carnarvon, and\\nwere that day expected to return and if they should\\n25 not be so civil as they ought to be, he begged, on the", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 29\\npart of all the young people, that I would not take it\\namiss. The parents returned, with churlish faces, and\\nDym Sassenach (no English), in answer to all my\\naddresses. I saw how matters stood and so, taking\\nan affectionate leave of my kind and interesting young 5\\nhosts, I went my way. For, though they spoke warmly\\nto their parents in my behalf, and often excused the\\nmanner of the old people, by saying, that it was only\\ntheir way, yet I easily understood that my talent\\nfor writing love-letters would do as little to recom- 10\\nmend me with two grave sexagenarian Welsh Metho-\\ndists, as my Greek \u00c2\u00b0Sapphics or Alcaics and what had\\nbeen hospitality when offered to me with the gracious\\ncourtesy of my young friends, would become charity,\\nwhen connected with the harsh demeanour of these 15\\nold people. Certainly, \u00c2\u00b0Mr. Shelley is right in his\\nnotions about old age unless powerfully counteracted\\nby all sorts of opposite agencies, it is a miserable cor-\\nrupter and blighter to the genial charities of the\\nhuman heart. 20\\nSoon after this, I contrived, by \u00c2\u00b0means which I must\\nomit for want of room, to transfer myself to London.\\nAnd now began the latter and fiercer stage of my\\nlong sufferings without using a disproportionate\\nexpression, I might say, of my agony. For I now 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "30 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nsuffered, for upwards of sixteen Aveeks, the physical\\nanguish of hunger in various degrees of intensity\\nbut as bitter, perhaps, as ever any human being can\\nhave suffered who has survived it. I v/ould not need-\\n5 lessly harass my reader s feelings, by a detail of all\\nthat I endured for extremities such as these, under\\nany circumstances of heaviest misconduct or guilt, can-\\nnot be contemplated, even in description, without a\\nrueful pity that is painful to the natural goodness\\nlo of the human heart. Let it suffice, at least on this\\noccasion, to say, that a few fragments of bread from\\nthe breakfast-table of one individual (who supposed\\nme to be ill, but did not know of my being in utter\\nwant), and these at uncertain intervals, constituted\\n15 my whole support. During the former part of my\\nsufferings (that is, generally in Wales, and always for\\nthe first two months in London) I was houseless, and\\nvery seldom slept under a roof. To this constant\\nexjjosure to the open air I ascribe it mainly, that I\\n20 did not sink under my torments. Latterly, however,\\nwhen colder and more inclement weather came on,\\nand when, from the length of my sufferings, I had\\nbegun to sink into a more languishing condition, it\\nwas, no doubt, fortunate for me, that the same person\\n25 to whose breakfast-table I had access, allowed me to", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 31\\nsleep in a large unoccupied house, of which he was\\ntenant. Unoccupied, I call it, for there was no house-\\nhold or establishment in it nor any furniture, indeed,\\nexcept a table, and a few chairs. But I found, on\\ntaking possession of my new quarters, that the house 5\\nalready contained one single inmate, a poor friendless\\nchild, apparently ten years old; but she seemed\\nhunger-bitten and sufferings of that sort often make\\nchildren look older than they are. From this forlorn\\nchild I learned, that she had slept and lived there 10\\nalone, for some time before T came and great joy\\nthe poor creature expressed, when she found that I\\nwas, in future, to be her companion through the hours\\nof darkness. The house was large; and, from the\\nwant of furniture, the noise of the rats made a pro- 15\\ndigious echoing on the spacious stair-case and hall\\nand, amidst the real fleshly ills of cold, and, I fear,\\nhunger, the forsaken child had found leisure to suffer\\nstill more (it appeared) -from the self-created one of\\nghosts. I promised her protection against all ghosts 20\\nwhatsoever: but, alas! I could offer her no other\\nassistance. We lay upon the floor, with a bundle of\\ncursed law papers for a pillow but with no other\\ncovering than a sort of large horseman s cloak after-\\nwards, however, we discovered, in a garret, an old 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "32 coNFI:ssIO^ s of an\\nsofa-cover, a small piece of rug, and some fragments\\nof other articles, which added a little to our warmth.\\nThe poor child crept close to me for warmth, and for\\nsecurity against her ghostly enemies. When I was\\n5 not more than usually ill, I took her into my arms, so\\nthat, in general, she was tolerably warm, and often\\nslept when I could not: for, during the last two\\nmonths of my sufferings, I slept much in day-time,\\nand was apt to fall into transient dozings at all hours.\\n10 But my sleep distressed me more than my watching\\nfor, besides the tumultuousness of my dreams (which\\nwere only not so awful as those which I shall have to\\ndescribe hereafter as produced by opium), my sleep\\nwas never more than what is called dog-sleep so that\\nT5 I could hear myself moaning, and was often, as it\\nseemed to me, wakened suddenly by my own voice\\nand, about this time, a hideous sensation began to\\nhaunt me as soon as I fell into a slumber, which\\nhas since returned upon me, at different periods of\\n2o my life, viz. a sort of twitching (I know not where,\\nbut apparently about the region of. the stomach),\\nwhich compelled me violently to throw out my feet\\nfor the sake of relieving it. This sensation coming\\non as soon as I began to sleep, and the effort to relieve\\n25 it constantly awaking me, at length I slept only from", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER S3\\nexhaustion; and from increasing weakness (as I said\\nbefore) I was constantly falling asleep, and constantly\\nawaking. Meantime, the master of the house some-\\ntimes came in upon us suddenly, and very early, some-\\ntimes not till ten o clock, sometimes not at all. He 5\\nwas in constant fear of bailiffs: improving on \u00c2\u00b0the\\nplan of Cromwell, every night he slept in a different\\nquarter of London and I observed that he never\\nfailed to examine, through a private window, the\\nappearance of those who knocked at the door, before 10\\nhe would allow it to be opened. He breakfasted\\nalone: indeed, his tea equipage would hardly have\\nadmitted of his hazarding an invitation to a second\\nperson any more than the quantity of esculent\\nmateriel, which, for the most part, was little more 15\\nthan a roll, or a few biscuits, which he had bought\\non his road from the place where he had slept. Or,\\nif he had asked a party, as I once learnedly and face-\\ntiously observed to him the several members of it\\nmust have stood in the relation to each other (not sate 20\\nin any relation whatever) of succession, as the meta-\\nphysicians have it, and not of a co-existence; in the\\nrelation of the parts of time, and not of the parts of\\nspace. During his breakfast, I generally contrived\\na reason for lounging in and, with an air of as much 25\\nD", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "34 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nindilference as I could assume, took up such fragmeuts\\nas he had left sometimes, indeed, there were none\\nat all. In doing this, I committed no robbery except\\nupon the man himself, who was thus obliged (I believe)\\n5 now and then to send out at noon for an extra biscuit;\\nfor, as to the poor child, she was never admitted into\\nhis study (if I may give that name to his chief deposi-\\ntory of parchments, law writings, c.); that room\\nwas to her the \u00c2\u00b0Blue-beard room of the house, being\\nxo regularly locked on his departure to dinner, about six\\no clock, which usually was his final departure for the\\nnight. Whether this child were an illegitimate\\ndaughter of Mr. [Brunellj, or only a servant, I could\\nnot ascertain; she did not herself know; but cer-\\n15 tainly she was treated altogether as a menial servant.\\nNo sooner did Mr. [Brunell] make his appearance, than\\nshe went below stairs, brushed his shoes, coat, c.\\nand, except when she was summoned to run an\\nerrand, she never emerged from the dismal \u00c2\u00b0Tartarus\\n20 of the kitchens, c. to the upper air, until my welcome\\nknock at night called up her little trembling footsteps\\nto the front door. Of her life during the daytime,\\nhowever, I knew little but what I gathered from her\\nown account at night; for, as soon as the hours of\\n25 business commenced, I saw that my absence would", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 35\\nbe acceptable; and, in general, therefore, I went off\\nand sate in the parks, or elsewhere, until nightfall.\\nBut who, and what, meantime, was the master of the\\nhouse himself Reader, he was one of those anoma-\\nlous practitioners in lower departments of the law, who\\nwhat shall I say who, on prudential reasons, or\\nfrom necessity, deny themselves all indulgence in the\\nluxury of too delicate a conscience (a periphrasis which\\nmight be abridged considerably, but that I leave to the\\nreader s taste in many walks of life, a conscience is\\na more expensive encumbrance, than a wife or a car-\\nriage and just as people talk of laying down their\\ncarriages, so I suppose my friend, Mr. [Brunell] had\\nlaid down his conscience for a time meaning, doubt-\\nless, to resume it as soon as he could afford it. The\\ninner economy of such a man s daily life would present\\na most strange picture, if I could allow myself to amuse\\nthe reader at his expense. Even with my limited oppor-\\ntunities for observing what went on, I saw many scenes\\nof London intrigues, and complex chicanery, cycle\\nand epicycle, orb in orb, at which I sometimes smile\\nto this day and at which I smiled then, in spite of my\\nmisery. My situation, however, at that time, gave me\\nlittle experience, in my own person, of any qualities\\nin Mr. [BrunellJ s character but such as did him hon-", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "36 CONFESSIONS OF AK\\nour; and of his whole strange composition, I must\\nforget everything but that towards me he was obliging,\\nand, to the extent of his power, generous.\\nThat power was not, indeed, very extensive how-\\n5 ever, in common with the rats, I sate rent free; and,\\nas \u00c2\u00b0Dr. Johnson has recorded, that he never but once\\nin his life had as much wall-fruit as he could eat, so\\nlet me be grateful, that on that single occasion I had\\nas large a choice of apartments in a London mansion\\n10 as I could possibly desire. Except the Blue-beard room,\\nwhich the poor child believed to be haunted, all others,\\nfrom the attics to the cellars, were at our service the\\nworld was all before us and we pitched our tent for\\nthe night in any spot we chose. This house I have\\n15 already described as a large one; it stands in a con-\\nspicuous situation, and in a well-known part of Lon-\\ndon. Many of my readers will have passed it, I doubt\\nnot, within a few hours of reading this. For myself,\\nI never fail to visit it when business draws me to Lon-\\n20 don about ten o clock, this very night, August 15, 1821,\\nbeing my birth-day I turned aside from my evening\\nwalk, down Oxford-street, purposely to take a glance\\nat it it is now occupied by a respectable family and,\\nby the lights in the front drawing-room, I observed a\\n25 domestic party, assembled perhaps at tea, and appar-", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 37\\nently cheerful and gay. Marvellous contrast in my\\neyes to the darkness cold silence and desola-\\ntion of that same house eighteen years ago, when its\\nnightly occupants were one famishing scholar, and a\\nneglected child. Her, by the bye, in after years, I 5\\nvainly endeavoured to trace. Apart from her situation,\\nshe was not what would be called an interesting child\\nshe was neither pretty, nor quick in understanding, nor\\nremarkably pleasing in manners. But, thank God!\\neven in those years I needed not the embellishments 10\\nof novel-accessaries to conciliate my affections plain\\nhuman nature, in its humblest and most homely apparel,\\nwas enough for me and I loved the child because she\\nwas my partner in wretchedness. If she is now living,\\nshe is probably a mother, with children of her own but, 15\\nas I have said, I could never trace her.\\nThis I regret, but another person there was at that\\ntime, whom I have since sought to trace with far\\ndeeper earnestness, and with far deeper sorrow at my\\nfailure. This person was a young woman, and one 20\\nof that unhappy class who subsist upon the wages of\\nprostitution. I feel no shame, nor have any reason\\nto feel it, in avowing, that I was then on familiar and\\nfriendly terms with many women in that unfortunate\\ncondition. The reader needs neither smile at this 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "38 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\navowal, nor frown. For, not to remind my classical\\nreaders of the old Latin proverb Sine Cerere, c.,\\nit may well be supposed that in the existing state of\\nmy purse, my connection with such women could not\\n5 have been an impure one. \u00c2\u00b0But the truth is, that at\\nno time of my life have I been a person to hold myself\\npolluted by the touch or approach of any creature that\\nwore a human shape on the contrary, from my very\\nearliest youth it has been my pride to converse famil-\\n10 iarly, \u00c2\u00b0more Socratico, with all human beings, man,\\nwoman, and child, that chance might fling in my\\nway a i: ractice which is friendly to the knowledge of\\nhuman nature, to good feelings, and to that frankness\\nof address which becomes a man who would be thought\\n15 a philosopher. For a philosopher should not see with\\nthe eyes of the \u00c2\u00b0poor limitary creature calling himself\\na man of the world, and filled with narrow and self-\\nregarding prejudices of birth and education, but should\\nlook upon himself as a Catholic creature, and as stand-\\n20 ing in equal relation to high and low to educated\\nand uneducated, to the guilty and the innocent. Be-\\ning myself at that time of necessity a peripatetic, or\\na walker of the streets, I naturally fell in more fre-\\nquently with those female peripatetics who are tech-\\n25 nically called Street-walkers. Many of these women", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 39\\nhad occasionally taken my part against watchmen who\\nwished to drive me off the steps of houses where I was\\nsitting. But one amongst them, the one on whose\\naccount I have at all introduced this subject yet\\nno let me not class thee, Oh noble-minded Ann 5\\nwith that order of women let me find, if it be pos-\\nsible, some gentler name to designate the condition of\\nher to whose bounty and compassion, ministering to\\nmy necessities when all the world had forsaken me,\\nI owe it that I am at this time alive. For many 10\\nweeks I had walked at nights with this poor friend-\\nless girl up and down Oxford Street, or had rested\\nwith her on steps and under the shelter of porticos.\\nShe could not be so old as myself: she told me,\\nindeed, that she had not completed her sixteenth year. 15\\nBy such questions as my interest about her prompted,\\nI had gradually drawn forth her simple history.\\nHers was a case of ordinary occurrence (as I have\\nsince had reason to think), and one in which, if Lon-\\ndon beneficence had better adapted its arrangements 20\\nto meet it, the power of the law might oftener be\\ninterposed to protect, and to avenge. But the stream\\nof London charity flows in a channel which, though\\ndeep and mighty, is yet noiseless and underground\\nnot obvious or readily accessible to poor houseless 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "40 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nwanderers and it cannot be denied that the outside\\nair and framework of London society is harsh, cruel,\\nand repuLsive. In any case, however, I saw that part\\nof her injuries might easily have been redressed and\\n5 I urged her often and earnestly to lay her complaint\\nbefore a magistrate friendless as she was, I assured\\nher that she would meet with immediate attention\\nand that English justice, which was no respecter of\\npersons, would speedily and amply avenge her on the\\n10 brutal ruffian who had plundered her little property.\\nShe promised me often that she would but she\\ndelayed taking the steps I pointed out from time to\\ntime: for she. was timid and dejected to a degree\\nwhich showed how deeply sorrow had taken hold of\\n15 her young heart; and perhaps she thought justly that\\nthe most upright judge, and the most righteous tribu-\\nnals, could do nothing to repair her heaviest wrongs.\\nSomething, however, would perhaps have been done:\\nfor it had been settled between us at length, but\\n20 unhappily on the very last time but one that I was\\never to see her, that in a day or two we should go\\ntogether before a magistrate, and that I should speak\\non her behalf. This little service it was destined,\\nhowever, that I should never realise. Meantime, that\\n25 which she rendered to me, and which was greater than", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 41\\nI could ever have repaid her, was this One night,\\nwhen we were pacing slowly along Oxford Street, and\\nafter a day when I had felt more than usually ill and\\nfaint, I requested her to turn off with me into Soho\\nSquare: thither we went; and we sate down on the 5\\nsteps of a house, which, to this hour, I never pass\\nwithout a pang of grief, and an inner act of homage\\nto the spirit of that unhappy girl, in memory of the\\nnoble action which she there performed. Suddenly,\\nas we sate, I grew much worse I had been leaning 10\\nmy head against her bosom and all at once I sank\\nfrom her arms and fell backwards on the steps. From\\nthe sensations I then had, I felt an inner conviction\\nof the liveliest kind that without some powerful and\\nreviving stimulus, I should either have died on the 15\\nspot or should at least have sunk to a point of\\nexhaustion from which all reascent under my friend-\\nless circumstances would soon have become hopeless.\\nThen it was, at this crisis of my fate, that my poor\\norphan companion who had herself met with little 20\\nbut injuries in this world stretched out a saving\\nhand to me. Uttering a cry of terror, but without a\\nmoment s delay, she ran off into Oxford Street, and in\\nless time than could be imagined, returned to me with\\na glass of port wine and spices, that acted upon my 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "42 CONFESSIOiYS OF AN\\nempty stomach (which at that time woiikl have\\nrejected all solid food) with an instantaneous power\\nof restoration and for this glass the generous girl\\nwithout a murmur paid out of her humble purse at\\na time be it remembered when she had scarcely\\nwherewithal to purchase the bare necessaries of life,\\nand when she could have no reason to expect that I\\nshould ever be able to reimburse her. Oh youthful\\nbenefactress how often in succeeding years, standing\\nin solitary places, and thinking of thee with grief of\\nheart and perfect love, how often have I wished that,\\nas in ancient times the curse of a father was believed\\nto have a supernatural power, and to pursue its object\\nw^ith a fatal necessity of self-fulhlment, even so the\\nbenediction of a heart oppressed with gratitude might\\nhave a like prerogative; might have power given to\\nit from above to \u00c2\u00b0chace to haunt to way -lay to\\novertake to pursue thee into the central darkness\\nof a London brothel, or (if it were possible) into the\\ndarkness of the grave there to awaken thee with an\\nauthentic message of peace, and forgiveness, and of\\nfinal reconciliation\\nI do not often weep for not only do my thoughts\\non subjects connected with the chief interests of man\\ndaily, nay hourly, descend a thousand fathoms too", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 43\\ndeep for tears not only does the sternness of my\\nhabits of thought present an antagonism to the feel-\\nings which prompt tears wanting of necessity to\\nthose who, being protected usually by their levity\\nfrom any tendency to meditative sorrow, would by that 5\\nsame levity be made incapable of resisting it on any\\ncasual access of such feelings but also, I believe\\nthat all minds which have contemplated such objects\\nas deeply as I have done, must, for their own protec-\\ntion from utter despondency, have early encouraged 10\\nand cherished some tranquilizing belief as to the fu-\\nture balances and the hieroglyphic meanings of human\\nsufferings. On these accounts, I am cheerful to this\\nhour and, as I have said, I do not often weep. \u00c2\u00b0Yet\\nsome feelings, though not deeper or more passionate, 15\\nare more tender than others and often, when I walk\\nat this time in Oxford Street by dreamy lamplight,\\nand hear those airs played on a barrel-organ which\\nyears ago solaced me and my dear companion (as I\\nmust always call her) I shed tears, and muse with 20\\nmyself at the mysterious dispensation which so sud-\\ndenly and so critically separated us for ever. How\\nit happened, the reader will understand from what\\nremains of this introductory narration.\\nSoon after the period of the last incident I have 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "44 COJ^FESSIOXS OF AN\\nrecorded, I met, in Albemarle Street, a gentleman of\\nhis \u00c2\u00b0late Majesty s liousehold. This gentleman had\\nreceived hospitalities, on different occasions, from my\\nfamily and he challenged me upon the strength of\\n5 my family likeness. I did not attempt any disguise\\nI answered his questions ingenuously, and, on his\\npledging his word of honour that he would not betray\\nme to my guardians, I gave him an address to my\\nfriend the Attorney s. The next day I received from\\n10 him a 101. Bank-note. The letter inclosing it was\\ndelivered with other letters of business to the attor-\\nney but, though his look and manner informed me\\nthat he suspected its contents, he gave it up to me\\nhonourably and without demur.\\n15 This present, from the particular service to which\\nit was applied, leads me naturally to speak of the pur-\\npose which had allured me up to London, and which\\nI had been (to use a forensic word) \u00c2\u00b0soUdtwg from the\\nfirst day of my arrival in London, to that of my final\\n20 departure.\\nIn so mighty a world as London, it will surprise my\\nreaders that I should not have found some means of\\nstaving off the last extremities of penury and it will\\nstrike them that two resources at least must have been\\n25 open to me, viz. eii:her to seek assistance from the", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "EKGLISH OPIUM-EATER 45\\nfriends of my family, or to turn my youthful talents\\nand attainments into some channel of pecuniary emolu-\\nment. As to the first course, I may observe, generally,\\nthat what I dreaded beyond all other evils was the\\nchance of being reclaimed by my guardians not doubt- 5\\ning that whatever power the law gave them would have\\nbeen enforced against me to the utmost that is, to\\nthe extremity of forcibly restoring me to the school\\nwhich I had quitted a restoration which as it would\\nin my eyes have been a dishonour, even if submitted 10\\nto voluntarily, could not fail, when extorted from me\\nin contempt and defiance of my known wishes and\\nefforts, to have been a humiliation worse to me than\\ndeath, and which would indeed have terminated in\\ndeath. I was, therefore, shy enough of applying for 15\\nassistance even in those quarters where I was sure of\\nreceiving it at the risk of furnishing my guardians\\nwith any clue for recovering me. But, as to London\\nin particular, though, doubtless, my father had in his\\nlife-time had many friends there, yet (as ten years had 20\\npassed since his death) I remembered few of them\\neven by name and never having seen London before,\\nexcept once for a few hours, I knew not the address\\nof even those few. To this mode of gaining help,\\ntherefore, in part the difficulty, but much more the 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "46 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nparamount fear which I have mentioned, habitually\\nindisposed me. In regard to the other mode, I now\\nfeel half inclined to join my reader in wondering that\\nI should have overlooked it. As a corrector of Greek\\n5 proofs (if in no other way), I might doubtless have\\ngained enough for my slender wants. Such an office\\nas this I could have discharged with an exemplary and\\npunctual accuracy that would soon have gained me\\nthe confidence of my employers. But it must not be\\n10 forgotten that, even for such an office as this, it was\\nnecessary that I should first of all have an introduction\\nto some respectable publisher: and this I had no means\\nof obtaining. To say the truth, however, it had never\\nonce occurred to me to think of literary labours as\\n15 a source of profit. No mode sufficiently speedy of\\nobtaining money had ever occurred to me, but that\\nof borrowing it on the strength of my future claims\\nand expectations. This mode I sought by every ave-\\nnue to compass: and amongst other persons I applied\\n20 to a Jew named D[ell].\\nTo this Jew, and to other advertising money-lenders\\n(some of whom were, I believe, also Jews), I had\\nintroduced myself with an account of my expecta-\\ntions which account, on examining my father s will\\n25 at Doctor s Commons, they had ascertained to be cor-", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 47\\nrect. The person there mentioned as the second son\\nof [\u00c2\u00b0Thonias Quincey], was found to have all the claims\\n(or more than all) that I had stated but one question\\nstill remained, which the faces of the Jews pretty\\nsignificantly suggested, was that person This\\ndoubt had never occurred to me as a possible one I\\nhad rather feared, whenever my Jewish friends scruti-\\nnised me keenly, that I might be too well known to\\nbe that person and that some scheme might be pass-\\ning in their minds for entrapping me and selling me\\nto my guardians. It was strange to me to find my\\nown self, \u00c2\u00b0materiaUter considered (so I expressed it, for\\nI doated on logical accuracy of distinctions), accused,\\nor at least suspected, of counterfeiting my own self,\\n\u00c2\u00b0formaliter considered. However, to satisfy their\\nscruples, I took the only course in my power. Whilst\\nI was in Wales, I had received various letters from\\nyoung friends these I produced for I carried them\\nconstantly in my pocket being, indeed, by this time,\\nalmost the only relics of my personal encumbrances\\n(excepting the clothes I wore) which I had not in one\\nway or other disposed of. Most of these letters were\\nfrom the Earl of [Altanu)nt], who was at that time\\nmy chief (or rather only) confidential friend. These\\nletters were dated from Eton. I had also some from", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "48 C0NFI:SSI0KS OF AN\\nthe Marquis of [Sligo], his father, who, though absorbed\\nin agricultural pursuits, yet having been an Etonian\\nhimself, and as good a scholar as a nobleman needs to\\nbe still retained an affection for classical studies,\\n5 and for youthful scholars. He had, accordingly, from\\nthe time that I was fifteen, corresponded with me;\\nsometimes upon the great improvements which he had\\nmade, or was meditating, in the counties of M[ayo]\\nand Sl[igo] since I had been there; sometimes upon\\n10 the merits ot a Latin poet and at other times, sug-\\ngesting subjects to me on which he wished me to\\nwrite verses.\\nOn reading the letters, one of my Jewish friends\\nagreed to furnish two or three hundred pounds on\\n15 my personal security provided I could persuade the\\nyoung Earl, who was, by the way, not older than\\nmyself, to guarantee the payment on our coming of\\nage the Jew s final object being, as I now suppose, not\\nthe trifling profit he could expect to make by me, but\\n20 the prospect of establishing a connection with my noble\\nfriend, whose immense expeptations were well known\\nto him. In pursuance of this prof)osal on the part of\\nthe Jew, about eight or nine days after I had received\\nthe 101. I prepared to go down to Eton. Nearly 3^.\\n25 of the money I had given to my money-lending friend,", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 49\\non his alleging that the stamps must be bought, in\\norder that the writings might be preparing whilst I\\nwas away from London. I thought in my heart that\\nhe was lying; but I did not wish to give him any\\nexcuse for charging his own delays upon me. A 5\\nsmaller sum I had given to my friend the attorney\\n(who was connected with the money-lenders as their\\nlawyer), to which, indeed, he was entitled for his\\nunfurnished lodgings. About fifteen shillings I had\\nemployed in re-establishing (though in a very humble 10\\nway) my dress. Of the remainder 1 gave one quarter\\nto Ann, meaning on my return to have divided with\\nher whatever might remain. These arrangements\\nmade, soon after six o clock, on a dark winter even-\\ning, I set off, accompanied by Ann, towards Picca- 15\\ndilly for it was my intention to go down as far as\\nSalt-hill on the Bath or Bristol Mail. Our course lay\\nthrough a part of the town which has now all dis-\\nappeared, so that I can no longer retrace its ancient\\nboundaries Swallow-street, I think it was called. 20\\nHaving time enough before us, however, we bore\\naway to the left until we came into Golden-square\\nthere, near the corner of Sherrard-street, we sat down\\nnot wishing to part in the tumult and blaze of Picca-\\ndilly. I had told her of my plans some time before 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "50 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nand I now assured her again that she should share in\\nmy good fortune, if I met with any and that I would\\nnever forsake her, as soon as I had power to protect\\nher. This I fully intended, as much from inclination\\n5 as from a sense of duty for, setting aside gratitude,\\nwhich in any case must have made me her debtor for\\nlife, I loved her as affectionately as if she had been\\nmy sister and at this moment, with seven-fold ten-\\nderness, from pity at witnessing her extreme dejection.\\n10 I had, apparently, most reason for dejection, because\\nI was leaving the saviour of my life yet I, consider-\\ning the shock my health had received, was cheerful\\nand full of hope. She, on the contrary, who was\\nparting with one who had had little means of serving\\n15 her, except by kindness and brotherly treatment, was\\novercome by sorrow so that, when I kissed her at\\nour final farewell, she put her arms about my neck,\\nand wept without speaking a word. I hoped to return\\nin a week at farthest, and I agreed with her that on\\n20 the fifth night from that, and every night afterwards,\\nshe should wait for me at six o clock, near the bottom\\nof Great Titchfield-street, which had been our cus-\\ntomary haven, as it were, of rendezvous, to prevent\\nour missing each other in the great Mediterranean of\\n25 Oxford-street. This, and other measures of precaution.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 51\\nI took one only I forgot. She had either never told\\nme, or (as a matter of no great interest) I had for-\\ngotten, her surname. It is a general practice, indeed,\\nwith girls of humble rank in her unhappy condition,\\nnot (as novel-reading women of higher pretensions) to 5\\nstyle themselves Miss Douglas, Miss Montague, g.\\nbut simply by their Christian names, Mary, Jane,\\nFrances, c. Her surname, as the surest means of\\ntracing her hereafter, I ought now to have inquired\\nbut the truth is, having no reason to think that our 10\\nmeeting could, in consequence of a short interruption,\\nbe more difficult or uncertain than it had been for so\\nmany weeks, I had scarcely for a moment adverted to\\nit as necessary, or placed it amongst my memoranda\\nagainst this parting interview: and, my final anxieties 15\\nbeing spent in comforting her with hopes, and in\\npressing upon her the necessity of getting some medi-\\ncines for a violent cough and hoarseness with which\\nshe was troubled, I wholly forgot it until it was too\\nlate to recal her. 20\\nIt was past eight o clock when I reached the Glou-\\ncester Coffee-house and, the Bristol Mail being on\\nthe point of going off, I mounted on the outside. The\\n\u00c2\u00b0fine fluent motion of this Mail soon laid me asleep\\nit is somewhat remarkable, that the first easy or 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "52 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nrefreshing sleep which I had enjoyed for some\\nmonths, was on the outside of a Mail-coach a bed\\nwhich, at this day, I find rather an uneasy one. Con-\\nnected with this sleep was a little incident, which\\n5 served, as hundreds of others did at that time, to con-\\nvince me how easily a man who has never been in any\\ngreat distress, may pass through life without knowing,\\nin his own person at least, anything of the possible\\ngoodness of the human heart or, as I must add with\\n10 a sigh, of its possible vileness. So thick a curtain of\\nmanners is drawn over the features and expression of\\nmen s natures, that to the ordinary observer, the two\\nextremities, and the infinite field of varieties which\\nlie between them, are all confounded the vast and\\n15 multitudinous compass of their several harmonies\\nreduced to the meagre outline of differences expressed\\nin the gamut or ali)habet of elementary sounds. .The\\ncase was this for the first four or five miles from\\nLondon, I annoyed my fellow-passenger on the roof\\n20 by occasionally falling against him when the coach\\ngave a lurch to his side and indeed, if the road had\\nbeen less smooth and level than it is, I should have\\nfallen off from Aveakness. Of this annoyance he com-\\nplained heavily, as perhaps, in the same circumstances\\n25 most people would; he expressed his complaint, how-", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 53\\never, more morosely than the occasion seemed to war-\\nrant and, if I had parted with him at that moment,\\nI should have thought of him (if I had considered it\\nworth while to think of him at all) as a surly and\\nalmost brutal fellow. However, I was conscious that 5\\nI had given him some cause for complaint and, there-\\nfore, I apologized to him, and assured him I would do\\nwhat I could to avoid falling asleep for the future\\nand, at the same time, in as few words as possible, I\\nexplained to him that I was ill and in a weak state 10\\nfrom long suffering; and that I could not afford at\\nthat time to take an inside place. This man s manner\\nchanged, upon hearing this explanation, in an instant\\nand when I next woke for a minute from the noise\\nand lights of Hounslow (for in spite of my wishes and 15\\nefforts I had fallen asleep again within two minutes\\nfrom the time I had sfjoken to him) I found that he\\nhad put his arm round me to protect me from falling\\noff: and for the rest of my journey he behaved to me\\nwith the gentleness of a woman, so that, at length, I 20\\nalmost lay in his arms and this was the more kind,\\nas he could not have known that I was not going the\\nwhole way to Bath or Bristol. Unfortunately, indeed,\\nI did go rather farther than I intended for so genial\\nand refreshing was my sleep, that the next time, after 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "54 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nleaving Hounslow that I fully awoke, was upon the\\nsudden pulling up of the Mail (possibly at a Post-\\noffice) and, on inquiry, I found that we had reached\\nMaidenhead six or seven miles, I think, a-head of\\n5 Salt-hill. Here I alighted: and for the half minute\\nthat the Mail stopped, I was entreated by my friendly\\ncompanion (who, from the transient glimpse I had had\\nof him in Piccadilly, seemed to me to be a gentleman s\\nbutler or person of that rank) to go to bed without\\n10 delay. This I promised, though with no intention of\\ndoing so and in fact, I immediately set forward, or\\nrather backward, on foot. It must then have been\\nnearly midnight but so slowly did I creep along, that\\nI heard a clock in a cottage strike four before I turned\\n15 down the lane from Slough to Eton. The air and the\\nsleep had both refreshed me but I was weary never-\\ntheless. I remember a thought (obvious enough, and\\nwhich has been \u00c2\u00b0prettily expressed by a Koman poet)\\nwhich gave me some consolation at that moment under\\n20 my poverty. There had been some time before a mur-\\nder committed on or near Hounslow-heath. I think\\nI cannot be mistaken when I say that the name of the\\nmurdered person was Steele, and that he was the owner\\nof a lavender plantation in that neighbourhood. Every\\n25 step of my progress was bringing me nearer to the", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 55\\nHeath and it naturally occurred to me that I and the\\naccused murderer, if he were that night abroad, might\\nat every instant be unconsciously approaching each\\nother through the darkness in which case, said I,\\nsupposing I, instead of being (as indeed I am) little\\nbetter than an outcast,\\n\u00c2\u00b0Lord of my learning and no land beside,\\nwere, like my friend. Lord [Altamont], heir by gen-\\neral repute to 70,000?. per ann., what a panic should\\nI be under at this moment about my throat indeed,\\nit was not likely that Lord [Altamont] should ever be\\nin my situation. But nevertheless, the spirit of the\\nremark remains true that vast power and posses-\\nsions make a man shamefully afraid of dying and I\\nam convinced that many of the most intrepid adven-\\nturers, who, by fortunately being poor, enjoy the full\\nuse of their natural courage, would, if at the very\\ninstant of going into action news were brought to\\nthem that they had unexpectedly succeeded to an\\nestate in England of 50,000/. a-year, feel their dislike\\nto bullets considerably sharpened and their efforts\\nat perfect equanimity and self-possession proportion-\\nably difficult. So true it is, in the language of a\\nwise man whose own experience had made him", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "5G CONFESSIOyS OF AN\\nacquainted with both fortunes, that riches are better\\nfitted\\n\u00c2\u00b0To slacken virtue, and abate her edge,\\nThan tempt her to do ought may merit praise.\\nFarad. Begained.\\n5 I dally with niy subject because, to myself, the re-\\nmembrance of these times is profoundly interesting.\\nBut my reader shall not have any further cause to\\ncomplain for I now hasten to its close. In the\\nroad between Slough and Eton, I fell asleep and,\\no just as the morning began to dawn, I was awakened\\nby the voice of a man standing over me and surveying\\nme. I know not what he was he was an ill-looking\\nfellow but not therefore of necessity an ill-meaning\\nfellow or, if he were, I suppose he thought that no\\n5 person sleeping out-of-doors in winter could be worth\\nrobbing. In which conclusion, however, as it re-\\ngarded myself, I beg to assure him, if he should be\\namong my readers, that he was mistaken. After a\\nslight remark he passed on and I was not sorry at\\no his disturbance, as it enabled me to pass through\\nEton before people were generally up. The night\\nhad been heavy and lowering but towards the morn-\\ning it had changed to a slight frost and the ground\\nand the trees were now covered with rime. I slipped", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 57\\nthrough Eton unobserved washed myself, and, as far\\nas possible, adjusted my dress at a little public-house\\nin Windsor and about \u00c2\u00b0eight o clock went down\\ntowards \u00c2\u00b0Pote s. On my road I met some junior boys,\\nof whom I made inquiries an Etonian is always a 5\\ngentleman; and, in spite of my shabby habiliments,\\nthey answered me civilly. My friend. Lord [Alta-\\nmont], was gone to the University of [Cambridge].\\nIbi omnis effusus labor I had, however, other\\nfriends at Eton but it is not to all who wear that 10\\nname in prosperity that a man is willing to present\\nhimself in distress. On recollecting myself, however,\\nI asked for the Earl of D[esart], to whom, (though my\\nacquaintance with him was not so intimate as with\\nsome others) I should not have shrunk from pre- 15\\nsenting myself under any circumstances. He was\\nstill at Eton, though I believe on the wing for Cam-\\nbridge. I called, was received kindly, and asked to\\nbreakfast.\\nHere let me stop for a moment to check my reader 20\\nfrom any erroneous conclusions because I have had\\noccasion incidentally to speak of various patrician\\nfriends, it must not be supposed that I have myself\\nany pretention to rank or high blood. I thank God\\nthat I have not I am the son of a plain English 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "58 CONFJESSIONS OF AN\\nmerchant, esteemed during his life for his great in\\ntegrity, and strongly attached to literary pursuits\\n(indeed, he was \u00c2\u00b0himself, anonymously, an author):\\nif he had lived, it was expected that he would have\\nbeen very rich; but, dying prematurely, he left no\\nmore than about 30,000Z. amongst seven different\\nclaimants. My mother I may mention with honour, as\\nstill more highly gifted. For, though unpretending\\nto the name and honours of a literary woman, I shall\\npresume to call her (what many literary women are\\nnot) an inteUectual woman and I believe that if ever\\n\u00c2\u00b0her letters should be collected and published, they\\nwould be thought generally to exhibit as much strong\\nand masculine sense, delivered in as pure ^mother\\nEnglish, racy and fresh with idiomatic graces, as any\\nin our language hardly excepting those of \u00c2\u00b0Lady M.\\nW. Montague. These are my honours of descent:\\nI have no other and I have thanked God sincerely\\nthat I have not, because, in my judgment, a station\\nwhich raises a man too eminently above the level of\\nhis fellow-creatures is not the most favourable to\\nmoral, or to intellectual qualities.\\nLord D[esart] placed before me a most magnificent\\nbreakfast. It was really so but in my eyes it seemed\\ntrebly magnificent from being the first regular meal,", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 59\\nthe first good man s table, that I had sate down to\\nfor months. Strange to say, however, I could scarce\\neat anything. On the day when I first received my\\n10/. Bank-note, I had gone to a baker s shop and\\nbought a couple of rolls this very shop I had two 5\\nmonths or six weeks before surveyed with an eager-\\nness of desire which it was almost humiliating to me\\nto recollect. I remembered \u00c2\u00b0the story about Otway\\nand feared that there might be danger in eating too\\nrapidly. But I had no need for alarm, my appetite 10\\nwas quite sunk, and I became sick before I had eaten\\nhalf of what I had bought. This effect from eating\\nwhat approached to a meal, I continued to feel for\\nweeks: or, when I did not experience any nausea,\\npart of what I ate was rejected, sometimes with 15\\nacidity, sometimes immediately, and without any\\nacidity. On the present occasion, at Lord D[esart] s\\ntable I found myself not at all better than usual\\nand, in the midst of luxuries, I had no appetite. I\\nhad, however, unfortunately at all times a craving for 20\\nwine: I explained my situation, therefore, to Lord\\nD[esart], and gave him a short account of my late\\nsufferings, at which he expressed great compassion,\\nand called for Avine. This gave me a momentary\\nrelief and pleasure and on all occasions when I had 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "60 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nan opportunity, I never failed to drink wine which\\nI worshipped then as I have since worshipped opium.\\nI am convinced, however, that this indulgence in\\nwine contributed to strengthen my malady; for the\\n5 tone of my stomach was apparently quite sunk and\\nby a better regimen it might sooner, and perhaps ef-\\nfectually, have been revived. I hope that it was not\\nfrom this love of wine that I lingered in the neighbour-\\nhood of my Eton friends I persuaded myself tJien\\nlo that it was from reluctance to ask of Lord D[esart],\\non whom I was conscious I had not sufficient claims,\\nthe particular service in quest of which I had come\\ndown to Eton. I was, however, unwilling to lose my\\njourney, and I asked it. Lord D[esart], whose good\\n15 nature was unbounded, and which, in regard to myself,\\nhad been measured rather by his compassion perhaps\\nfor my condition, and his knowledge of my intimacy\\nwith some of his relatives, than by an over-rigorous\\ninquiry into the extent of my own direct claims,\\n20 faultered, nevertheless, at this request. He acknow-\\nledged that he did not like to have any dealings with\\nmoney-lenders, and feared lest such a transaction\\nmight come to the ears of his connexions. Moreover,\\nhe doubted whether his signature, whose expectations\\n25 were so much more bounded than those of [his cou-", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "E^^GLISH OPIUM-EATER 61\\nsin], would avail with my unchristian friends. How-\\never, he did not wish, as it seemed, to mortify me by\\nan absolute refusal for after a little consideration,\\nhe promised, under certain conditions which he\\npointed out, to give his security. Lord D[esart] was\\nat this time not eighteen years of age: but I have\\noften doubted, on recollecting since the good sense\\nand prudence which on this occasion he mingled with\\nso much urbanity of manner (an urbanity which in\\nhim wore the grace of youthful sincerity), whether\\nany statesman the oldest and the most accomplished\\nin diplomacy could have acquitted himself better\\nunder the same circumstances. Most people, indeed,\\ncannot be addressed on such a business, without sur-\\nveying you with looks as austere and unpropitious as\\nthose of a \u00c2\u00b0Saracen s head.\\nKecomforted by this promise, which was not quite\\nequal to the best, but far above the worst that I had\\npictured to myself as possible, I returned in a Wind-\\nsor coach to London three days after I had quitted it.\\nAnd now I come to the end of my story The Jews\\ndid not approve of Lord D[esart] s terms whether they\\nwould in the end have acceded to them, and were only\\nseeking time for making due inquiries, I know not;\\nbut many delays were made time passed on the", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "62 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nsmall fragment of my bank note had just melted away;\\nand before any conclusion could have been put to the\\nbusiness, I must have relapsed into my former state of\\nwretchedness. Suddenly, however, at this crisis, an\\n5 opening was made, almost by accident, for reconcili-\\nation with my friends. I quitted London, in haste,\\nfor a remote part of England: after some time, I pro-\\nceeded to the university and it was not until many\\nmonths had passed away, that I had it in my power\\n10 again to re-visit the ground which had become so inter-\\nesting to me, and to this day remains so, as the chief\\nscene of my youthful sufferings.\\nMeantime, what had become of poor Anne? For\\nher I have reserved my concluding words according\\n15 to our agreement, I sought her daily, and waited for\\nher every night, so long as I staid in London, at\\nthe corner of Titchfield-Street. I inquired for her of\\nevery one who was likely to know her and, during\\nthe last hours of my stay in London, I put into activ-\\n20 ity every means of tracing her that my knowledge of\\nLondon suggested, and the limited extent of my power\\nmade possible. The street where she had lodged I\\nknew, but not the house; and I remembered at last\\nsome account which she had given me of ill treatment\\n25 from her landlord, which made it probable that she", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 63\\nhad quitted those lodgings before we parted. She\\nhad few acquaintance most people, besides, thought\\nthat the earnestness of my inquiries arose from mo-\\ntives which moved their laughter, or their slight re-\\ngard; and others, thinking I was in chase of a girl 5\\nwho had robbed me of some trifles, were naturally\\nand excusably indisposed to give me any clue to her,\\nif, indeed they had any to give. Finally, as my des-\\npairing resource, on the day I left London I put into\\nthe hands of the only person who (I was sure) must ic\\nknow Anne by sight, from having, been in company\\nwith us once or twice, an address to [the Priory] in\\n[Chester]shire, at that time the residence of my family.\\nBut, to this hour, I have never heard a syllable about\\nher. This, amongst such troubles as most men meet i-\\nwith in this life, has been my heaviest affliction. If\\nshe lived, doubtless we must have been sometimes in\\nsearch of each other, at the very same moment, through\\nthe mighty labyrinths of London; perhaps, even\\nwithin a few feet of each other a barrier no wider 2c\\nin a London street, often amounting in the end to a\\nseparation for eternity During some years, I hoped\\nthat she did live and I suppose that, in the literal and\\nunrhetorical use of the word myriad, I may say that on\\nmy different visits to London, I have looked into many, 2=", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "64 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nmany myriads of female faces, in the liope of meeting\\nher. I should know her again amongst a thousand, if\\nI saw her for a moment for, though not handsome,\\nshe had a sweet expression of countenance, and a\\npeculiar and graceful carriage of the head. I sought\\nher, I have said, in hope. So it was for years but\\nnow I should fear to see her; and her cough, which\\ngrieved me when I parted with her, is now my conso-\\nlation. I now wish to see her no longer but think of\\nher more gladly, as one long since laid in the grave\\nin the grave, I would hope, of a \u00c2\u00b0Magdalen; taken\\naway, before injuries and cruelty had blotted out and\\ntransfigured her ingenuous nature, or the brutalities\\nof ruffians had completed the ruin they had begun.\u00c2\u00b0", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "KNGLtsn OPtUM-EATER 65\\nPART II\\nSo then, Oxford-street, stony-hearted step-mother\\nthou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drink-\\nest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed\\nfrom thee the time was come at last that I no more\\nshould pace in anguish thy never-ending terraces; 5\\nno more should dream, and wake in captivity to the\\npangs of hunger. Successors, too many, to myself and\\nAnn, have, doubtless, since then trodden in our foot-\\nsteps inheritors of our calamities other orphans\\nthan Ann have sighed tears have been shed by other 10\\nchildren and thou, Oxford-street, hast since, doubt-\\nless, echoed to the groans of innumerable hearts.\\nFor myself, however, the storm which I had outlived\\nseemed to have been the pledge of a long fair-weather\\nthe premature sufferings which I had paid down, to 15\\nhave been accepted as a ransom for many years to\\ncome, as a price of long immunity from sorrow and\\nif again I walked in London, a solitary and contem-\\nplative man (as oftentimes I did), I walked for the\\nmost part in serenity and peace of mind. And, 20", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "66 CON-FESSIONS OF AN\\nalthough it is true that the calamities of my novici-\\nate in London had struck root so deeply in my bodily\\nconstitution that afterwards they shot up and flour-\\nished afresh, and grew into a noxious umbrage that\\n5 has overshadowed and darkened my latter years, yet\\nthese second assaults of suffering were met with a\\nfortitude more confirmed, with the resources of a\\nmaturer intellect, and with alleviations from sympa-\\nthising affection how deep and tender\\nlo Thus, however, with whatsoever alleviations, years\\nthat were far asunder were bound together by subtle\\nlinks of suffering derived from a common root. And\\nherein I notice an instance of the short-sightedness of\\nhuman desires, that oftentimes on moonlight nights,\\n15 during my first mournful abode in London, my conso-\\nlation was (if such it could be thought) to gaze from\\nOxford-street up every avenue in succession which\\npierces through the heart of Marylebone to the fields\\nand the woods for that, said I, travelling with my\\n20 eyes up the long vistas which lay part in light and\\npart in shade, that is \u00c2\u00b0the road to the North, and\\ntherefore to [Grasmere], and if I had \u00c2\u00b0the wings of a\\ndove, that way I would fly for comfort. Thus I said,\\nand thus I wished, in my blindness yet, even in that\\n25 very northern region it was, even in that very valley.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 67\\nnay, in \u00c2\u00b0that very house to which my erroneous wishes\\npointed, that this second birth of my sufferings began\\nand that they again threatened to besiege the citadel\\nof life and hope. There it was^ that for years I was\\npersecuted by visions as ugly, and as ghastly phantoms 5\\nas ever haunted the couch of an Orestes and in this\\nunhappier than he, that sleep, which comes to all as\\na respite and a restoration, and to him especially, as\\na \u00c2\u00b0blessed balm for his wounded heart and his haunted\\nbrain, visited me as my bitterest scourge. Thus blind 10\\nwas I in my desires yet, if a veil interposes between\\nthe dim-sightedness of man and his future calamities,\\nthe same veil hides from him their alleviations and\\na grief which had not been feared is met by consola-\\ntions which had not been hoped. I, therefore, who 15\\nparticipated, as it were, in the troubles of Orestes\\n(excepting only in his agitated conscience), partici-\\npated no less in all his supports my \u00c2\u00b0Eumenides, like\\nhis, were at my bed-feet, and stared in upon me through\\nthe curtains: but, watching by my pillow, or defraud- 20\\ning herself of sleep to bear me company through the\\nheavy watches of the night, sate my Electra for\\nthou, beloved \u00c2\u00b0M[argaret], dear companion of my later\\nyears, thou wast my Electra! and neither in nobility\\nof mind nor in long-suffering affection, wouldst per- 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "68 CONFESSION S OF AN\\nmit that a Grecian sister should excel an English\\nwife. For thou thoughtst not much to stoop to\\nhumble offices of kindness, and to \u00c2\u00b0servile ministrations\\nof tenderest affection; to wipe away for years the\\n5 unwholesome dews upon the forehead, or to refresh\\nthe lips when parched and baked with fever; nor,\\neven when thy own peaceful slumbers had by long\\nsympathy become infected with the spectacle of my\\ndread contest with phantoms and shadowy enemies\\n10 that oftentimes bade me sleep no more not\\neven then, didst thou utter a complaint or any mur-\\nmur, nor withdraw thy angelic smiles, nor shrink\\nfrom thy service of love more than Electra did of old.\\nFor she too, though she was a Grecian woman, and\\n15 the daughter of the \u00c2\u00b0king of men, yet wept sometimes,\\nand \u00c2\u00b0hid her face in her robe.\\nBut these troubles are past: and thou wilt read\\nthese records of a period so dolorous to us both as\\nthe legend of some hideous dream that can return no\\n20 more. Meantime, I am again in London: and again\\nI pace the terraces of Oxford-street by night: and\\noftentimes, when I am oppressed by anxieties that\\ndemand all my philosophy and the comfort of thy\\npresence to support, and yet remember that I am\\n25 separated from thee by three hundred miles, and the", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 69\\nlength of three dreary months, I look up the streets\\nthat run northwards from Oxford-street, upon moon-\\nlight nights, and recollect my youthful ejaculation\\nof anguish and remembering that thou art sitting\\nalone in that same valley, and mistress of that very 5\\nhouse to which my heart turned in its blindness nine-\\nteen years ago, I think that, though blind indeed, and\\nscattered to the winds of late, the promptings of my\\nheart may yet have had reference to a remoter time,\\nand may be justified if read in another meaning 10\\nand, if I could allow myself to descend again to the\\nimpotent wishes of childhood, I should again say to\\nmyself, as I look to the north, Oh, that I had the\\nwings of a dove and with how just a confidence\\nin thy good and gracious nature might I add the other 15\\nhalf of my early ejaculation And that way I would\\nfly for comfort.\\nTHE PLEASURES OF OPIUM\\nIt is so long since I first took opium, that if it had\\nbeen a trifling incident in my life, I might have for-\\ngotten its date but cardinal events are not to be 20\\nforgotten and from circumstances connected with it,\\nI remember that it must be referred to the autumn", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "70 CONFJ^SSIONS OF AN\\nof 1804. During that season I was in London, having\\ncome thither for the first time since my entrance at\\ncollege. And my introduction to opium arose in the\\nfollowing way, From an early age I had been accus-\\ntomed to wash my head in cold water at least once a\\nday being suddenly seized with tooth-ache I attrib-\\nuted it to some relaxation caused by an accidental\\nintermission of that practice; jumped put of bed;\\nplunged my head into a bason of cold water and with\\nhair thus wetted went to sleep. The next morning,\\nas I need hardly say, I awoke with excruciating rheu-\\nmatic pains of the head and face, from which I had\\nhardly any respite for about twenty days. On the\\ntwenty -first day, I think it was, and on a Sunday,\\nthat I went out into the streets rather to run away,\\nif possible, from my torments, than with any distinct\\npurpose. By accident I met a college acquaintance\\nwho recommended opium. Opium dread agent of\\nunimaginable pleasure and pain I had heard of it\\nas I had of manna or of Ambrosia, but no further:\\nhow unmeaning a sound was it at that time! what\\nsolemn chords does it now strike upon my heart what\\nheart-quaking vibrations of sad and happy remem-\\nbrances Reverting for a moment to these, I feel a\\nmystic importance attached to the minutest circum-", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 71\\nstances connected with the place and the time, and\\nthe man (if man he was) that first laid open to me\\nthe Paradise of Opium-eaters. It was a Sunday after-\\nnoon, wet and cheerless and a duller spectacle this\\nearth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in\\nLondon. My road homewards lay through Oxford-\\nstreet and near the stately Pantheon, (as Mr.\\nWordsworth has obligingly called it) I saw a drug-\\ngist s shop. The druggist unconscious minister of\\ncelestial pleasures! as if in sympathy with the rainy\\nSunday, looked dull and stupid, just as any mortal\\ndruggist might be expected to look on a Sunday and\\nwhen I asked for the tincture of opium, he gave it to\\nme as any other man might do and furthermore, out\\nof my shilling, returned me what seemed to be real\\ncopper halfpence, taken out of a real wooden drawer.\\nNevertheless, in spite of such indications of humanity,\\nhe has ever since existed in my mind as the beatific\\nvision of an immortal druggist, sent down to earth on\\na special mission to myself. And it confirms me in\\nthis way of considering him, that, when I next came\\nup to London, I sought him near the stately Pan-\\ntheon, and found him not and thus to me, who knew\\nnot his name (if indeed he had one) he seemed rather\\nto have vanished from Oxford-street than to have re-", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "72 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nmoved in any bodily fashion. The reader may choose\\nto think of him as, possibly, no more than a sublunary\\ndruggist it may be so but my faith is better I\\nbelieve him to have \u00c2\u00b0evanesced, or evaporated. So\\nunwillingly would I connect any mortal remembrances\\nwith that hour, and place, and creature, that first\\nbrought me acquainted with the celestial drug.\\nArrived at my lodgings, it may be supposed that I\\nlost not a* moment in taking the quantity prescribed.\\nI was necessarily ignorant -of the whole art and mys-\\ntery of opium-taking and, what I took, I took under\\nevery disadvantage. But I took it and in an hour,\\noh Heavens what a revulsion what an upheaving,\\nfrom its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an\\napocalypse of the world within me That my pains\\nhad vanished, was now a trifle in my eyes this neg-\\native effect was s\\\\Vallowed up in the immensity of those\\npositive effects which had opened before me in the\\nabyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed.\\nHere was a panacea a ^cfyapfxaKov vrj-n-evOc^i for all hu-\\nman woes: here was the secret of happiness, about\\nwhich philosophers had disputed for so many ages,\\nat once discovered happiness might now be bought\\nfor a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket:\\nportable ecstacies might be had corked up in a pint", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 73\\nbottle and peace of mind could be sent down in gal-\\nlons by the mail coach. But, if I talk in this way,\\nthe reader will think I am laughing and I can assure\\nhim, that nobody will laugh long who deals much with\\nopium its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn 5\\ncomplexion and in his happiest state, the opium-eater\\ncannot present himself in the character of \u00c2\u00b0V Allegro\\neven then, he speaks and thinks as becomes \u00c2\u00b0Il Pense-\\nroso. Nevertheless, I have a very reprehensible way\\nof jesting at times in the midst of my own misery 10\\nand, unless when I am checked by some more power-\\nful feelings, I am afraid I shall be guilty of this in-\\ndecent practice even in these annals of suffering or\\nenjoyment. The reader must allow a little to my\\ninfirm nature in this respect: and with a few indul- 15\\ngences of that sort, I shall endeavour to be as grave,\\nif not drowsy, as fits a theme like opium, so anti-mer-\\ncurial as it really is, and so drowsy as it is falsely\\nreputed.\\nAnd, first, one word with respect to its bodily effects 20\\nfor upon all that has been hitherto written on the sub-\\nject of opium, whether by travellers in Turkey (who\\nmay plead their privilege of lying as an old imme-\\nmorial right), or by professors of medicine, writing\\n\u00c2\u00b0ex cathedra, I have but one emphatic criticism to 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "74 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\npronounce Lies lies lies I remember once, in\\npassing a book-stall, to have caught these words from\\na page of some satiric author By this time I be-\\ncame convinced that the London newspapers spoke\\n5 truth at least twice a week, viz. on Tuesday and Sat-\\nurday, and might safely be depended upon for the\\nlist of bankrupts. In like manner, I do by no means\\ndeny that some truths have been delivered to the world\\nin regard to opium thus it has been repeatedly af-\\n10 firmed by the learned, that opium is a dusky brown\\nin colour; and this, take notice, 1 grant: secondly, that\\nit is rather dear, which also I grant for in my time\\nEast-India opium has been three guineas a pound, and\\nTurkey eight and, thirdly, that if you eat a good deal\\n15 of it, most probably you must do what is particu-\\nlarly disagreeable to any man of regular habits, viz.\\n\u00c2\u00b0die. These weighty propositions are, all and singular,\\ntrue I cannot gainsay them and truth ever was, and\\nwill be, commendable. But in these three theorems,\\n20 I believe we have exhausted the stock of knowledge\\nas yet accumulated by men on the subject of opium.\\nAnd therefore, worthy doctors, as there seems to be\\nroom for further discoveries, stand aside, and allow\\nme to come forward and lecture on this matter.\\n25 First, then, it is not so much affirmed as taken for", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 75\\ngranted, by all who ever mention opium, formally or\\nincidentally, that it does, or can, produce intoxication.\\nNow, reader, assure yourself, \u00c2\u00b0meo periculo, that no\\nquantity of opium ever did, or could intoxicate. As\\nto the tincture of opium (commonly called laudanum)\\nthat might certainly intoxicate if a man could bear to\\ntake enough of it but why because it contains so\\nmuch proof spirit, and not because it contains so much\\nopium. But crude opium, I affirm peremptorily, is\\nincapable of producing any state of body at all resem-\\nbling that which is produced by alcohol and not in\\ndegree only incapable, but even in kind: it is not in\\nthe quantity of its effects merely, but in the quality,\\nthat it differs altogether. The pleasure given by wine\\nis always mounting, and tending to a crisis, after which\\nit declines that from opium, when once generated, is\\nstationary for eight or ten hours the first, to borrow\\na technical distinction from medicine, is a case of acute\\nthe second, of chronic pleasure the one is a flame,\\nthe other a steady and equable glow. But the main\\ndistinction lies in this, that whereas wine disorders the\\nmental faculties, opium, on the contrary (if taken in a\\nproper manner), introduces amongst them the most\\nexquisite order, legislation, and harmony. Wine robs\\na man of his self-possession opium greatly invigorates", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "76 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nit. Wine unsettles and clouds the judgment, and gives\\na preternatural brightness, and a vivid exaltation to\\nthe contempts and the admirations, the loves and the ha-\\ntreds, of the drinker opium, on the contrary, commun-\\n5 icates serenity and equipoise to all the faculties, active\\nor passive and with respect to the temper and moral\\nfeelings in general, it gives simply that sort of vital\\nwarmth which is approved by the judgment, and which\\nwould probably always accompany a bodily constitution\\nlo of primeval or antediluvian health. Thus, for instance,\\nopium, like wine, gives an expansion to the heart and\\nthe benevolent affections but then, with this remark-\\nable difference, that in the sudden development of kind-\\nheartedness which accompanies inebriation, there is\\n15 always more or less of a maudlin character, which ex-\\nposes it to the contempt of the by-stander. Men shake\\nhands, swear eternal friendship, and shed tears no\\nmortal knows why and the sensual creature is clearly\\nuppermost. But the expansion of the benigner feelings,\\n20 incident to opium, is no febrile access, but a healthy\\nrestoration to that state which, the mind would natu-\\nrally recover upon the removal of any deep-seated irri-\\ntation of pain that had disturbed and quarrelled with\\nthe impulses of a heart originally just and good. True\\n25 it is, that even wine, up to a certain point, and with", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 77\\ncertain men, rather tends to exalt and to steady the\\nintellect I myself, who have never been a great wine-\\ndrinker, used to find that half a dozen glasses of wine\\nadvantageously affected the faculties brightened and\\nintensified the consciousness and gave to the mind\\na feeling of being ponderibus librata suis: and cer-\\ntainly it is most absurdly said, in popular language, of\\nany man, that he is disguised in liquor for, on the con-\\ntrary, most men are disguised by sobriety and it is\\nwhen they are drinking (as some old gentleman says\\nin \u00c2\u00b0Athen8enus), that men eavTov i e^^avt ^ovo-ti/ oiVti/e? daCv\\ndisplay themselves in their true complexion of char-\\nacter which surely is not disguising themselves. But\\nstill, wine constantly leads a man to the brink of absurd-\\nity and extravagance; and, beyond a certain point, it\\nis sure to volatilize and to disperse the intellectual\\nenergies whereas opium always seems to compose\\nwhat had been agitated, and to concentrate what had\\nbeen distracted. In short, to sum up all in one word,\\na man who is inebriated, or tending to inebriation, is,\\nand feels that he is, in a condition which calls up into\\nsupremacy the merely human, too often the brutal,\\npart of his nature but the opium-eater (I speak of\\nhim who is not suffering from any disease, or other\\nremote effects of opium) feels that the diviner part of", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "78 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nhis nature is paramount that is, the moral affections\\nare in a state of cloudless serenity and over all is the\\ngreat light of the majestic intellect.\\nThis is the doctrine of the true church on the sub-\\n5 ject of opium of which church I acknowledge my-\\nself to be the only member the alpha and the omega\\nbut then it is to be recollected, that I speak from the\\nground of a large and profound personal experience\\nAvhereas most of the ^unscientific authors who have\\n10 at all treated of opium, and even of those who have\\nwritten expressly on the materia medica, make it evi-\\ndent, from the horror they express of it, that their\\nexperimental knowledge of its action is none at all.\\nI will, however, candidly acknowledge that I have\\n15 met with one person who bore evidence to its intoxi-\\ncating power, such as staggered my own incredulity\\nfor he was a surgeon, and had himself taken opium\\nlargely. I happened to say to him, that his enemies\\n(as I had heard) charged him with talking nonsense\\n20 on politics, and that his friends apologized for him,\\nby suggesting that he was constantly in a state of\\nintoxication from opium. Now the accusation, said\\nI, is not \u00c2\u00b0primd facie, and of necessity, an absurd one\\nbut the defence is. To my surprise, however, he in-\\n25 sisted that both his enemies and his friends were in", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 79\\nthe right: I will maintain, said he, -that I do talk\\nnonsense and secondly, I will maintain that I do\\nnot talk nonsense upon principle, or with any view\\nto profit, but solely and simply, said he, solely and\\nsimply, solely and simply (repeating it three times\\nover), because I am drunk Avith opium; and that\\ndaily. I replied that, as to the allegation of his\\nenemies, as it seemed to be established upon such\\nrespectable testimony, seeing that the three parties\\nconcerned all agree in it, it did not become ]ne to\\nquestion it but the defence set up I must demur to.\\nHe proceeded to discuss the matter, and to lay down\\nhis reasons but it seemed to me so impolite to pur-\\nsue an argument which must have presumed a man\\nmistaken in a point belonging to his own profession,\\nthat I did not press hiin even when his course of argu-\\nment seemed open to objection not to mention that\\na man who talks nonsense, even though with no\\nview to profit, is not altogether the most agreeable\\npartner in a dispute, whether as opponent or respon-\\ndent. I confess, however, that the authority of a\\nsurgeon, and one who was reputed a good one, may\\nseem a weighty one to my prejudice but still I must\\nplead my experience, which was greater than his\\ngreatest by 7000 drops a day and, though it was not", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "80 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\npossible to suppose a medical man unacquainted with\\nthe characteristic symptoms of vinous intoxication,\\nit yet struck me that he might proceed on a logical\\nerror of using the word intoxication with too great\\nlatitude, and extending it generically to all modes of\\nnervous excitement, instead of restricting it as the\\nexpression for a specific sort of excitement, connected\\nwith certain diagnostics. Some people have main-\\ntained in my hearing, that they had been drunk upon\\ngreen tea and a medical student in London, for whose\\nknowledge in his profession I have reason to feel great\\nrespect, assured me, the other day, that a patient, in re-\\ncovering from an illness, had got drunk on a beef -steak.\\nHaving dwelt so much on this first and leading error,\\nin respect to opium, I shall notice very briefly a second\\nand a third; which are, that the elevation of spirits\\nproduced by opium is necessarily followed by a pro-\\nportionate depression, and that the natural and even\\nimmediate consequence of opium is torpor and stagna-\\ntion, animal and mental. The first of these errors I\\nshall content myself with simply denying; assuring\\nmy reader, that for ten years, during which I took\\nopium at intervals, the day succeeding to that on which\\nI allowed myself this luxury was always a day of\\nunusually good spirits.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 81\\n\u00c2\u00b0Witli respect to the torpor supposed to follow, or\\nrather (if we were to credit the numerous pictures\\nof Turkish opium-eaters) to accompany the practice\\nof opium-eating, I deny that also. Certainly, opium\\nis classed under the head of narcotics and some such 5\\neffect it may produce in the end: but the primary\\neffects of opium are always, and in the highest degree,\\nto excite and stimulate the system this first stage of\\nits action always lasted with me, during my noviciate,\\nfor upwards of eight hours so that it must be the 10\\nfault of the opium-eater himself if he does not so time\\nhis exhibition of the dose (to speak medically) as that\\nthe whole weight of its narcotic influence may descend\\nupon his sleep. Turkish opium-eaters, it seems, are\\nabsurd enough to sit, like so many equestrian statues, 15\\non logs of wood as stupid as themselves. But that\\nthe reader may judge of the degree in which opium is\\nlikely to stupify the faculties of an Englishman, I\\nshall (by way of treating the question illustratively,\\nrather than argumentatively) describe the way in 20\\nwhich I myself often passed an opium evening in\\nLondon, during the period between 1804-1812. It\\nwill be seen, that at least opium did not move me\\nto seek solitude, and much less to seek inactivity, or\\nthe torpid state of self-involution ascribed to the 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "82 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nTurks. I give this account at the risk of being pro-\\nnounced a crazy enthusiast or visionary but I regard\\nthat little I must desire my reader to bear in mind,\\nthat I was a hard student, and at severe studies for\\nall the rest of my time and certainly I had a right\\noccasionally to relaxations as well as other people:\\nthese, however, I allowed myself but seldom.\\nThe late Duke of [Norfolk] used to say, Next\\nFriday, by the blessing of Heaven, I purpose to be\\ndrunk and in like manner I used to fix beforehand\\nhow often, within a given time, and when, I would\\ncommit a debauch of opium. This was seldom more\\nthan once in three weeks for at that time I could not\\nhave ventured to call every day (as I did afterwards)\\nfor a glass of laudanum negus, warm, and ivithout\\nsugar. No: as I have said, I seldom drank lauda-\\nnum, at that time, more than once in three weeks\\nthis was usually on a Tuesday or a Saturday night\\nmy reason for which was this. In those days \u00c2\u00b0Gras-\\nsini sang at the Opera and her voice was delightful\\nto me beyond all that I had ever heard. I know not\\nwhat may be the state of the Opera-house now, having\\nnever been within its walls for seven or eight years,\\nbut at that time it was by much the most pleasant\\nplace of public resort in London for passing an even-", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 83\\ning. Five shillings admitted one to the gallery,\\nwhich was subject to far less annoyance than the pit\\nof the theatres the orchestra was distinguished by\\nits sweet and melodious grandeur from all English\\norchestras, the composition of which, I confess, is not 5\\nacceptable to my ear, from the predominance of the\\nclamorous instruments, and the absolute tyranny of\\nthe violin. The choruses were divine to hear: and\\nwhen Grassini appeared in some interlude, as she often\\ndid, and poured forth her passionate soul as \u00c2\u00b0Androm- 10\\nache, at the tomb of Hector, c. I question whether\\nany Turk, of all that ever entered the Paradise of\\nopium-eaters, can have had half the pleasure I had.\\nBut, indeed, I honour the Barbarians too much by\\nsupposing them capable of any pleasures approaching 15\\nto the intellectual ones of an Englishman. For music\\nis an intellectual or a sensual pleasure, according to\\nthe temperament of him who hears it. And, by the\\nbye, with the exception of \u00c2\u00b0the fine extravaganza on\\nthat subject in Twelfth Night, I do not recollect more 20\\nthan one thing said adequately on the subject of\\nmusic in all literature it is a ^passage in the Relkjio\\nMedici of Sir T. Brown and, though chiefly remark-\\nable for its sublimity, has also a philosophic value,\\ninasmuch as it points to the true theory of musical 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "84 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\neffects. The mistake of most people is to suppose\\nthat it is by the ear they communicate with music,\\nand, therefore, that they are purely passive to its\\neffects. But this is not so it is by the re-action of\\n5 the mind upon the notices of the ear, (the matter com-\\ning by the senses, the fonn from the mind) that the\\npleasure is constructed and therefore it is that peo-\\nple of equally good ear differ so much in this point\\nfrom one another. Now opium, by greatly increasing\\n10 the activity of the mind generally, increases, of neces-\\nsity, that particular mode of its activity by which we\\nare able to construct out of the raw material of organic\\nsound an elaborate intellectual pleasure. But, says a\\nfriend, a succession of musical sounds is to me like a\\n15 collection of Arabic characters: I can attach no ideas\\nto them. Ideas my good sir there is no occasion\\nfor them all that class of ideas, which can be avail-\\nable in such a case, has a language of representative\\nfeelings. \u00c2\u00b0But this is a subject foreign to my present\\n20 purposes it is sufficient to say, that a chorus, c. of\\nelaborate harmony, displayed before me, as in a piece\\nof arras work, the whole of my past life not, as if\\nrecalled by an act of memory, but as if present and\\nincarnated in the music no longer painful to dwell\\n25 upon but the detail of its incidents removed, or", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 85\\nblended in some hazy abstraction and its passions\\nexalted, spiritualized, and sublimed. All this was to\\nbe had for five shillings. And over and above the\\nmusic of the stage and the orchestra, I had all around\\nme, in the intervals of the performance, the music of 5\\nthe Italian language talked by Italian women for the\\ngallery was usually crowded with Italians: and I\\nlistened with a pleasure such as that with which\\n\u00c2\u00b0Weld the traveller lay and listened, in Canada, to the\\nsweet laughter of Indian women for the less you under- lo\\nstand of a language, the more sensible you are to the\\nmelody or harshness of its sounds for such a purpose,\\ntherefore, it was an advantage to me that I was a poor\\nItalian scholar, reading it but little, and not speaking\\nit at all, nor understanding a tenth part of what I 15\\nheard spoken.\\nThese were my Opera pleasures but another pleas-\\nure I had which, as it could be had only on a Satur-\\nday night, occasionally struggled with my love of the\\nOpera for, at that time, Tuesday and Saturday were 20\\nthe regular Opera nights. On this subject I am afraid\\nI shall be rather obscure, but, I can assure the reader,\\nnot at all more so than \u00c2\u00b0Marinus in his life of \u00c2\u00b0Proclus,\\nor many other biographers and auto-biographers of fair\\nreputation. This pleasure, I have said, was to be had 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "86 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nonly on a Saturday night. What then was Saturday\\nnight to me more than any other night? I had no\\nlabours that I rested from; no wages to receive:\\nwhat needed I to care for Saturday night, more than\\n5 as it was a summons to hear Grassini True, most\\nlogical reader what you say is unanswerable. And\\nyet so it Avas and is, that, whereas different men throw\\ntheir feelings into different channels, and most are\\napt to show their interest in the concerns of the poor,\\nlo chiefly by sympathy, expressed in some shape or other,\\nwith their distresses and sorrows, I, at that time, was\\ndisposed to express my interest by sympathising with\\ntheir pleasures. The pains of poverty I had lately\\nseen too much of more than I wished to remember\\n15 but the pleasures of the poor, their consolations of\\nspirit, and their reposes from bodily toil, can never\\nbecome oppressive to contemplate. Now Saturday\\nnight is the season for the chief, regular, and periodic\\nreturn of rest to the poor in this point the most hos-\\n20 tile sects unite, and acknowledge a common link of\\nbrotherhood: almost all Christendom rests from its\\nlabours. It is a rest introductory to another rest:\\nand divided by a whole day and two nights from the\\nrenewal of toil. On this account I feel always, on a\\n25 Saturday night, as though I also were released from", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 87\\nsome yoke of labour, had some wages to receive, and\\nsome luxury of repose to enjoy. For the sake, there-\\nfore, of witnessing, upon as large a scale as possible,\\na spectacle with which my sympathy was so entire,\\nI used often, on Saturday nights, after I had taken 5\\nopium, to wander forth, without much regarding the\\ndirection or the distance, to all the markets, and other\\nparts of London, to which the poor resort on a Satur-\\nday night, for laying out their wages. Many a family\\nparty, consisting of a man, his wife, and sometimes 10\\none or two of his children, have I listened to, as they\\nstood consulting on their ways and means, or the\\nstrength of their exchequer, or the price of household\\narticles. Gradually I became familiar with their\\nwishes, their difficulties, and their opinions. Some- 15\\ntimes there might be heard murmurs of discontent:\\nbut far oftener expressions on the countenance, or\\nuttered in words, of patience, hope, and tranquillity.\\nAnd taken generally, I must say, that, in this point at\\nleast, the poor are far more philosophic than the rich 20\\nthat they show a more ready and cheerful submis-\\nsion to what they consider as irremediable evils, or\\nirreparable losses. Whenever I saw occasion, or could\\ndo it without appearing to be intrusive, I joined their\\nparties and gave my opinion upon the matter in dis- 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "88 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\ncussion, which, if not always judicious, was always\\nreceived indulgently. If wages were a little higher,\\nor expected to be so, or the quartern loaf a little\\nlower, or it was reported that onions and butter were\\n5 expected to fall, I was glad yet, if the contrary were\\ntrue, I drew from opium some means of consoling\\nmyself. For opium (like the bee, that extracts its\\nmaterials indiscriminately from roses and from the\\n\u00c2\u00b0soot of chimneys) can overrule all feelings into com-\\nlo pliance with the master key. Some of these rambles\\nled me to great distances for an opium-eater is too\\nhappy to observe the motion of time. And sometimes\\nin my attempts to steer homewards, upon nautical\\nprinciples, by fixing my eye on the pole-star, and seek-\\n15 ing ambitiously for a north-west passage, instead of\\ncircumnavigating all the capes and head-lands I had\\ndoubled in my outward voyage, I came suddenly\\nupon such knotty problems of alleys, such enigmati-\\ncal entries, and such sphynx s riddles of streets\\n20 without thoroughfares, as must, I conceive, baffle the\\naudacity of porters, and confound the intellects of\\nhackney-coachmen. I could almost have believed, at\\ntimes, that I must be the first discoverer of some of\\nthese \u00c2\u00b0terr(e ijicognitm, and doubted, whether they had\\n25 yet been laid down in the modern charts of London.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 89\\nFor all this, however, I paid a heavy price in distant\\nyears, when the human face tyrannized over my\\ndreams, and the perplexities of my steps in London\\ncame back and haunted my sleep, Avith the feeling of\\nperplexities vmoral or intellectual, that brought con- 5\\nfusion to the reason, or anguish and remorse to the\\nconscience.\\nThus I have shown that opium does not, of neces-\\nsity, produce inactivity or torpor; but that, on the\\ncontrary, it often led me into markets and theatres. 10\\nYet, in candour, I will admit that markets and thea-\\ntres are not the appropriate haunts of the opium-eater,\\nAvhen in the divinest state incident to his enjoyment.\\nIn that state, crowds become an oppression to him\\nmusic even, too sensual and gross. He naturally seeks 15\\nsolitude and silence, as indispensable conditions of\\nthose trances, or profoundest reveries, which are the\\ncrown and consummation of what opium can do for\\nhuman nature. I, whose disease it was to meditate\\ntoo much, and to observe too little, and wdio, upon my 20\\nfirst entrance at college, was nearly falling into a\\ndeep melancholy, from brooding too much on the suf-\\nferings which I had witnessed in London, was suffi-\\nciently aware of the tendencies of my own thoughts\\nto do all I could to counteract them. I was, indeed, 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "90 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nlike a person who, according to the old legend, had\\nentered the \u00c2\u00b0cave of Trophonius and the remedies I\\nsought were to force myself into society, and to keep\\nmy understanding in continual activity upon matters\\n5 of science. But for these remedies, I should certainly\\nhave become hypochondriacally melancholy. In after\\nyears, however, when my cheerfulness was more fully\\nre-established, I yielded to my natural inclination for\\na solitary life. And, at that time, I often fell into\\no these reveries upon taking opium and more than\\nonce it has happened to me, on a summer night, when\\nI have been at an open window, in a room from which\\nI could overlook the sea at a mile below me, and could\\ncommand a view of the great town of L[iverpool], at\\n5 about the same distance, that I have sate from sun-set\\nto sun-rise, motionless, and without wishing to move.\\nI shall be charged with mysticism, \u00c2\u00b0Behmenism,\\nquietism, c. but that shall not alarm me. \u00c2\u00b0Sir H.\\nVane, the younger, was one of our wisest men: and\\no let my reader see if he, in his philosophical works, be\\nhalf as unmystical as I am. I say, then, that it has\\noften struck me that the scene itself was somewhat\\ntypical of what took place in such a reverie. The\\ntown of L[iverpool] represented the earth, with its\\n5 sorrows and its graves left behind, yet not out of", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 91\\nsight, nor wholly forgotten. The ocean, in everlasting\\nbut gentle agitation, and brooded over by a dove-like\\ncalm, might not unfitly typify the mind and the mood\\nwhich then swayed it. For it seemed to me as if then\\nfirst I stood at a distance, and aloof from the uproas 5\\nof life; as if the \u00c2\u00b0tumult, the fever, and the strife,\\nwere suspended; a respite granted from the secret\\nburthens of the heart a sabbath of repose a resting\\nfrom human labours. Here were the hopes which\\nblossom in the paths of life, reconciled with the peace 10\\nwhich is in the grave; motions of the intellect as\\nunwearied as the heavens, yet for all anxieties a\\nhalcyon calm a tranquillity that seemed no product\\nof inertia, but as if resulting from mighty and equal\\nantagonisms infinite activities, infinite repose. 15\\n\u00c2\u00b00h just, subtle, and mighty opium that to the\\nhearts of poor and rich alike, for the wounds that will\\nnever heal, and for the pangs that tempt the spirit\\nto rebel, bringest an assuaging balm eloquent opium\\nthat with thy potent rhetoric stealest away the ]3ur- 20\\nposes of wrath and to the guilty man, for one night\\ngivest back the hopes of his youth, and hands washed\\npure from blood and to the proud man, a brief ob-\\nlivion for\\nWrongs uiiredress d, and insults unavenged; 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "92 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nthat summonest to the chancery of dreams, for the\\ntriumphs of suffering innocence, false witnesses and\\nconfoundest perjury; and dost reverse the sentences\\nof unrighteous judges thou buiklest upon the bosom\\n5 of darkness, out of the fantastic imagery of the brain,\\ncities and temples beyond the art of \u00c2\u00b0Phidias and\\n\u00c2\u00b0Praxiteles beyond the splendour of Babylon and\\n\u00c2\u00b0Hekat6nipylos and from the anarchy of dreaming\\nsleep, callest into sunny light the faces of long-buried\\nlo beauties, and the blessed household countenances\\ncleansed from the dishonours of the grave. Thou\\nonly givest these gifts to man and thou hast the keys\\nof Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium\\nINTEODUCTION TO THE PAINS OF OPIUM\\nCourteous, and, I hope, indulgent reader (for all\\n15 my readers must be indulgent ones, or else, I fear, I\\nshall shock them too much to count on their cour-\\ntesy), having accompanied me thus far, now let me\\nrequest you to move onwards, for about eight years\\nthat is to say, from 1804 (when I have said that my\\n20 acquaintance with opium first began) to 1812. The\\nyears of academic life are now over and gone almost\\nforgotten: the student s cap no longer presses my", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 93\\ntemples; if my cap exist at all, it presses those of\\nsome youthful scholar, I trust, as happy as myself,\\nand as passionate a lover of knowledge. My gown\\nis, by this time, I dare to say, in the same condition\\nwith many thousand excellent books in the \u00c2\u00b0Bodleian, 5\\nviz. diligently perused by certain studious moths and,\\nworms or departed, however (which is all that I\\nknow of his fate), to that great reservoir of somewhere,\\nto which all the tea-cups, tea-caddies, tea-pots, tea-\\nkettles, c. have departed (not to speak of still frailer 10\\nvessels, such as glasses, decanters, bed-makers, c.\\nwhich occasional resemblances in the present genera-\\ntion of tea-cups, c. remind me of having once pos-\\nsessed, but of whose departure and final fate I, in\\ncommon with most gownsmen of either university, 15\\ncould give, I suspect, but an obscure and conjectural\\nhistory. The persecutions of the chapel-bell, sound-\\ning its unwelcome summons to six o clock matins,\\ninterrupts my slumbers no longer: the porter who\\nrang it, upon whose beautiful nose (bronze, inlaid 20\\nwith copper) I wrote, in retaliation, so many \u00c2\u00b0Grreek\\nepigrams whilst I was dressing, is dead, and has\\nceased to disturb anybody and I, and many others,\\nwho suffered much from his tintinnabulous propen-\\nsities, have now agreed to overlook his errors, and 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "94 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nhave forgiven him. Even with the bell I am now in\\ncharity it rings, I suppose, as formerly, thrice a-day\\nand cruelly annoys, I doubt not, many Avorthy gentle-\\nmen, and disturbs their peace of mind but as to me,\\n5 in this year 1812, I regard its treacherous voice no\\nlonger (treacherous, I call it, for, by some refinement\\nof malice, it spoke in as sweet and silvery tones as if\\nit had been inviting one to a party) its tones have\\nno longer, indeed, power to reach me, let the wind sit\\n10 as favourable as the malice of the bell itself could wish\\nfor I am 250 miles away from it, and buried in the\\ndepth of mountains. And what am I doing amongst\\nthe mountains Taking opium. Yes, but what else?\\nWhy, reader, in 1812, the year we are now arrived at,\\n15 as well as for some years previous, I have been chiefly\\nstudying German metaphysics, in the writings of \u00c2\u00b0Kant,\\n\u00c2\u00b0Fichte, \u00c2\u00b0Schelling, c. And how, and in what manner,\\ndo I live in short, what class or description of men\\ndo I belong to? I am at this period, viz. in 1812,\\n20 living in a cottage and with a single female servant\\n\u00c2\u00b0(lioni soit qui mal y pense), -who, amongst my neigh-\\nbours, passes by the name of my house-keeper.\\nAnd, as a scholar and a man of learned education,\\nand in that sense a gentleman, I may presume to\\n25 class myself as an unworthy member of that indefinite", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 95\\nbody called gentlemen. Partly on the ground I have\\nassigned, perhaps jjartly because, from my having\\nno visible calling or business, it is rightly judged\\nthat I must be living on my private fortune; I am\\nso classed by my neighbours and, by the courtesy 5\\nof modern England, I am usually addressed on letters,\\nc. esquire, though having, I fear, in the rigorous con-\\nstruction of heralds, but slender pretensions to that\\ndistinguished honour: yes, in popular estimation, I\\nam \u00c2\u00b0X. Y. Z., esquire, but not Justice of the Peace, 10\\nnor \u00c2\u00b0Custos Rotulorum. Am I married Not yet.\\nAnd I still take opium On Saturday nights. And,\\nperhaps, have taken it unblushingly ever since the\\nrainy Sunday, and the stately Pantheon, and the\\nbeatific druggist of 1804? Even so. And how do 15\\nI find my health after all this opium-eating in\\nshort, how do I do Why, pretty well, I thank you,\\nreader in the phrase of ladies in the straw, as well\\nas can be expected. In fact, if I dared to say the\\nreal and simple truth, though, to satisfy the theories 20\\nof medical men, I ought to be ill, I never was better in\\nmy life than in the spring of 1812 and I hope sin-\\ncerely, that the quantity of claret, port, or particular\\nMadeira, which, in all probability, you, good reader,\\nhave taken, and design to take for every term of eight 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "96 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nyears, during your natural life, may as little disorder\\nyour health as mine was disordered by the opium I\\nhad taken for eight years, between 1804 and 1812.\\nHence you may see again the danger of taking any\\n5 medical advice from Anastasius; in divinity, for aught\\nI know, or law, he may be a safe counsellor; but\\nnot in medicine. No: it is far better to consult Dr.\\nBuchan; as I did: for I never forgot that worthy\\nman s excellent suggestion: and I was particularly\\nlo careful not to take above five-and-twenty ounces of\\nlaudanum. To this moderation and temperate use\\nof the article, I may ascribe it, I suppose, that as yet,\\nat least {i.e. in 1812,) I am ignorant and unsuspicious\\nof the avenging terrors which opium has in store for\\n15 those who abuse its lenity. At the same time, it\\nmust not be forgotten, that hitherto I have been only\\na dilettante eater of opium eight years practice even,\\nwith a single precaution of allowing sufficient intervals\\nbetween every indulgence, has not been sufficient to\\n20 make opium necessary to me as an article of daily\\ndiet. But now comes a different era. Move on, if\\nyou please, reader, to 1813. In the summer of the\\nyear we have just quitted, I had suffered much in\\nbodily health from \u00c2\u00b0distress of mind connected with\\n25 a very melancholy event. This event, being no ways", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 97\\nrelated to the subject now before me, further than\\nthrough the bodily illness which it produced, I need\\nnot more particularly notice. Whether this illness of\\n1812 had any share in that of 1813, I know not but\\nso it was, that in the latter year I was attacked by a 5\\nmost appalling irritation of the stomach, in all re-\\nspects the same as that which had caused me so much\\nsuffering in youth, and accompanied by a revival of\\nall the old dreams. This is the point of my narrative\\non which, as respects my own self-justification, the ro\\nwhole of what follows may be said to hinge. And\\nhere I find myself in a perplexing dilemma Either,\\non the one hand, I must exhaust the reader s patience,\\nby such a detail of my malady, or of my struggles\\nwith it, as might suffice to establish the fact of my 15\\ninability to wrestle any longer with irritation and\\nconstant suffering or, on the other hand, by passing\\nlightly over this critical part of my story, I must\\nforego the benefit of a stronger impression left on\\nthe mind of the reader, and must lay myself open to 20\\nthe misconstruction of having slipped by the easy and\\ngradual steps of self-indulging persons, from the first\\nto the final stage of opium-eating (a misconstruction\\nto which there will be a lurking predisposition in\\nmost readers, from my previous acknowledgements). 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "98 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nThis is the dilemma the first horn of which would\\nbe sufficient to toss and gore any column of patient\\nreaders, though drawn up sixteen deep and constantly\\nrelieved by fresh men consequently that is not to be\\n5 thought of. It remains, then, that I post-date so much\\nas is necessary for my purpose. And let me take as\\nfull credit for what I postulate as if I had demon-\\n-strated it, good reader, at the expense of your patience\\nand my own. Be not so ungenerous as to let me suffer\\n[0 in your good opinion through my own forbearance and\\nregard for your comfort. No believe all that I ask\\nof you, viz. that I could resist no longer, believe it\\nliberally, and as an act of grace or else in mere pru-\\ndence for, if not, then in the next edition of my\\n[5 Opium Confessions revised and enlarged, I will make\\nyou believe and tremble and \u00c2\u00b0d fo7xe d^enmtyer, by\\nmere dint of \u00c2\u00b0pandiculation I will terrify all readers\\nof mine from ever again questioning any postulate\\nthat I shall think fit to make.\\nJO This then, let me repeat, I postulate that, at the\\ntime I began to take opium daily, I could not have\\ndone otherwise. Whether, indeed, afterwards I might\\nnot have succeeded in breaking off the habit, even when\\nit seemed to me that all efforts would be unavailing,\\n!5 and whether many of the innumerable efforts which I", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 99\\ndid make, might not have been carried much further\\nand my gradual reconquests of ground lost might not\\nhave been followed up much more energetically\\nthese are questions which I must decline. Perhaps I\\nmight make out a case of ]3alliation but, shall I speak\\ningenuously I confess it, as a besetting infirmity of\\nmine, that I am too much of an ^Eudsemonist T han-\\nker too much after a state of happiness, both for\\nmyself and others I cannot face misery, whether my\\nown or not, with an eye of sufficient firmness and am\\nlittle capable of encountering present pain for the sake\\nof any reversionary benefit. On some other matters,\\nI can agree with the gentlemen in the cotton trade at\\nManchester in affecting the \u00c2\u00b0Stoic philosophy: but\\nnot in this. Here I take the liberty of an ^Eclectic\\nphilosopher, and I look out for some courteous and\\nconsiderate sect that will condescend more to the\\ninfirm condition of an opium-eater that are sweet\\nmen, as Chaucer says, to give absolution, and will\\nshow some conscience in the penances they inflict,\\nand the efforts of abstinence they exact, from poor\\nsinners like myself. An inhuman moralist I can no\\nmore endure in my nervous state than opium that has\\nnot been boiled. At any rate, he, who summons me\\nto send out a large freight of self-denial and mortifi-\\nL. oi o.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "100 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\ncation upon any cruising voyage of moral improve-\\nment, must make it clear to my understanding that\\ntlie concern is a hopeful one. At my time of life (six-\\nand-thirty years of age) it cannot be supposed that I\\n5 have much energy to spare in fact, I find it all little\\nenough for the intellectual labours I have on my hands\\nand, therefore, let no man expect to frighten me by a\\nfew hard words into embarking any part of it upon\\ndesperate adventures of morality.\\n10 Whether desperate or not, however, the issue of the\\nstruggle in 1813 was what I have mentioned and from\\nthis date, the reader is to consider me as a regular and\\nconfirmed opium-eater, of whom to ask whether on any\\nparticular day he had or had not taken opium, would\\n15 be to ask whether his lungs had performed respiration,\\nor the heart fulfilled its functions. You understand\\nnow, reader, what I am and you are by this time\\naware, that .no old gentleman, with a snow-white\\nbeard, will have any chance of persuading me to\\n20 surrender -the little golden receptacle of the perni-\\ncious drug. No I give notice to all, whether moral-\\nists or surgeons, that, whatever be their pretensions\\nand skill in their respective lines of practice, they\\nmust not hope for any countenance from me, if they\\n25 think to begin by any savage proposition for a Lent", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 101\\nor Ramadan of abstinence from opium. This then\\nbeing all fully understood between us, we shall in\\nfuture sail before the wind. Now then, reader, from\\n1813, where all this time we have been sitting down\\nand loitering rise up, if you please, and walk for- 5\\nward about three years more. Now draw up the cur-\\ntain, and you shall see me in a new character.\\nIf any man, poor or rich, were to say that he would\\ntell us what had been the happiest day in his life, and\\nthe why, and the wherefore, I suppose that we should 10\\nall cry out Hear him Hear him As to the hap-\\npiest day, that must be very difficult for any wise man\\nto name because any event, that could occupy so dis-\\ntinguished a place in a man s retrospect of his life, or\\nbe entitled to have shed a special felicity on any one 15\\nday, ought to be of such an enduring character, as\\nthat (accidents ajjart) it should have continued to\\nshed the same felicity, or one not distinguishably less,\\non many years together. To the happiest lustrum,\\nhowever, or even to the happiest year, it may be 20\\nallowed to any man to point without discountenance\\nfrom wisdom. This year, in my case, reader, was the\\none which we have now reached though it stood, I\\nconfess, as a parenthesis between years of a gloomier\\ncharacter. It was a year of brilliant water (to speak 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "102 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nafter the manner of jewellers), set as it were, and\\ninsulated, in the gloom and cloudy melancholy of\\nopium. Strange as it may sound, I had a little before\\nthis time descended suddenly, and without any con-\\n5 siderable effort, from 320 grains of opium (i.e. eight\\nthousand drops of laudanum) per day, to forty grains,\\nor one eighth part. Instantaneously, and as if by\\nmagic, the cloud of profoundest melancholy which\\nrested upon my brain, like some black vapours that I\\n[o have seen roll away from the summits of mountains,\\ndrew off in one day \u00c2\u00b0(vvx07]fx\u00e2\u0082\u00acpov) passed off with its\\nmurky banners as simultaneously as a ship that has\\nbeen stranded, and is floated off by a spring tide\\n\u00c2\u00b0Tliat moveth altogether, if it move at all.\\n[5 Now, then, I was again happy I now took only\\n1000 drops of laudanum per day and what was that\\nA latter spring had come to close up the season of\\nyouth my brain performed its functions as healthily\\nas ever before I read Kant again and again I under-\\n!o stood him, or fancied that I did. Again my feelings\\nof pleasure expanded themselves to all around me:\\nand if any man from Oxford or Cambridge, or from\\nneither, had been announced to me in my unpretend-\\ning cottage, I should have welcomed him with as", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 103\\nsumptuous a reception as so poor a man could offer.\\nWhatever else was wanting to a wise man s happiness,\\nof laudanum I would have given him as much as he\\nwished, and in a golden cup. And, by the way, now\\nthat I speak of giving laudanum away, I remember, 5\\nabout this time, a little incident, which I mention,\\nbecause, trifling as it was, the reader will soon meet\\nit again in my dreams, which it influenced more fear-\\nfully than could be imagined. One day a Malay\\nknocked at my door. What business a Malay could 10\\nhave to transact amongst English mountains, I cannot\\nconjecture but possibly he was on his road to a sea-\\nport about forty miles distant.\\nThe servant who opened the door to him was a\\nyoung girl born and bred amongst the mountains, who 15\\nhad never seen an Asiatic dress of any sort his tur-\\nban, therefore, confounded her not a little and, as it\\nturned out, that his attainments in English were ex-\\nactly of the same extent as hers in the Malay, there\\nseemed to be an \u00c2\u00b0impassable gulph fixed between all 20\\ncommunication of ideas, if either party had happened\\nto possess any. In this dilemma, the girl, recollecting\\nthe reputed learning of her master (and, doubtless,\\ngiving me credit for a knowledge of all the languages\\nof the earth, besides, perhaps, a few of the lunar ones), 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "104 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\ncame and gave me to understand that there was a sort\\nof demon below, whom she clearly imagined that my\\nart could exorcise from the house. I did not immedi-\\nately go down but, when I did, the group which\\n5 presented itself, arranged as it was by accident, though\\nnot very elaborate, took hold of my fancy and my eye\\nin a way that none of the statuesque attitudes exhib-\\nited in the ballets at the Opera House, though so\\nostentatiously complex, had ever done. In a cottage\\nlo kitchen, but panelled on the wall with dark wood that\\nfrom age and rubbing resembled oak, and looking more\\nlike a rustic hall of entrance than a kitchen, stood the\\nMalay his turban and loose trousers of dingy white\\nrelieved upon the dark panelling he had placed him-\\n15 self nearer to the girl than she seemed to relish;\\nthough her native spirit of mountain intrepidity con-\\ntended with the feeling of simple awe which her\\ncountenance expressed as she gazed upon the tiger-cat\\nbefore her. And a more striking picture there could\\n20 not be imagined, than the beautiful English face of\\nthe girl, and its exquisite fairness, together with her\\nerect and independent attitude, contrasted with the\\nsallow and bilious skin of the Malay, enamelled or\\nveneered with mahogany, by marine air, his small,\\n25 fierce, restless eyes, thin lips, slavish gestures and ad-", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 105\\norations. Half-hidden by the ferocious looking Malay,\\nwas a little child from a neighbouring cottage who had\\ncrept in after him, and was now in the act of revert-\\ning its head, and gazing upwards at the turban and\\nthe fiery eyes beneath it, whilst with one hand he 5\\ncaught at the dress of the young woman for protection.\\nMy knowledge of the Oriental tongues is not remark-\\nably extensive, being indeed confined to two words\\nthe Arabic word for barley, and the Turkish for opium\\n(madjoon), which I have learned from Anastasius. 10\\nAnd, as I had neither a Malay dictionary, nor even\\n\u00c2\u00b0Adelung s Mithridates, which might have helped me\\nto a few words, I addressed him in some lines from\\nthe Iliad considering that, of such languages as I pos-\\nsessed, Greek, in point of longitude, came geographi- 15\\ncally nearest to an Oriental one. He worshipped me\\nin a most devout manner, and replied in what I sup-\\npose was Malay. In this way I saved my reputation\\nwith my neighbours; for the Malay had no micans\\nof betraying the secret. He lay down upon the floor 20\\nfor about an hour, and then pursued his journey. On\\nhis departure, I presented him with a piece of opium.\\nTo him, as an Orientalist, I concluded that opium\\nmust be familiar and the expression of his face con-\\nvinced me that it was. Nevertheless, I was struck with 21;", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "106 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nsome little coiisternation when I saw him suddenly\\nraise his hand to his month, and (in the school-boy\\nphrase) bolt the whole, divided into three pieces, at\\none mouthful. The quantity was enough to kill three\\n5 dragoons and their horses and I felt some alarm for\\nthe poor creature but what could be done I had\\ngiven him the opium in compassion for his solitary\\nlife, on recollecting that if he had travelled on foot\\nfrom London, it must be nearly three weeks since he\\nlo could have exchanged a thought with any human\\nbeing. I could not think of violating the laws of\\nhospitality by having him seized and drenched with\\nan emetic, and thus frightening him into a notion that\\nwe were going to sacrifice him to some English idol.\\n15 ^o: there was clearly no help for it: he took his\\nleave and for some days I felt anxious but as I\\nnever heard of any Malay being found dead, I became\\nconvinced that he was used to opium and that I must\\nhave done him the service I designed, by giving him\\n20 one night of respite from the pains of wandering.\\nThis incident I have digressed to mention, because\\nthis Malay (partly from the picturesque exhibition he\\nassisted to frame, partly from the anxiety I connected\\nwith his image for some days) fastened afterwards\\n25 upon my dreams, and brought other Malays with him,", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 107\\nworse than himself, that ran a-nuick at me, and\\nled me into a world of troubles. But to quit this\\nepisode, and to return to my intercalary year of happi-\\nness. 1 have said already, that on a subject so impor-\\ntant to us all as happiness, we should listen with 5\\npleasure to any man s experience or experiments, even\\nthough he were but a plough-boy, who cannot be sup-\\nposed to have ploughed very deep into such an intrac-\\ntable soil as that of human pains and pleasures, or to\\nhave conducted his researches upon any very enlight- 10\\nened principles. But I, who have taken happiness,\\nboth in a solid and a liquid shape, both boiled and\\nunboiled, both East India and Turkey who have\\nconducted my experiments upon this interesting sub-\\nject with a sort of galvanic battery and have, for 15\\nthe general benefit of the world, inoculated myself, as\\nit were, with the poison of 8000 drops of laudanum\\nper day (just, for the same reason, as a French surgeon\\ninoculated himself lately with cancer an English one,\\ntwenty years ago, with plague and a third, I know 20\\nnot of wdiat nation, with hydrophobia), (it will\\nbe admitted) must surely know what happiness is, if\\nanybody does. And, therefore, I will here lay down\\nan analysis of happiness and as the most interesting\\nmode of communicating it, I will give it, not didacti- 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "108 CONFL SSIOJVS OF AN\\ncally, but wrapped up and involved in a picture of one\\nevening, as I spent every evening during the interca-\\nlary year when laudanum, though taken daily, was to\\nme no more than the elixir of pleasure. This done, I\\n5 shall quit the subject of happiness altogether, and pass\\nto a very different one the pains of opium.\\nLet there be a cottage, standing in a valley, 18\\nmiles from any town no spacious valley, but about\\ntwo miles long by three quarters of a mile in average\\n10 width the benefit of which- provision is, that all the\\nfamily resident within its circuit will compose, as it\\nwere, one larger household personally familiar to your\\neye, and more or less interesting to your affections.\\nLet the mountains be real mountains, between 3 and\\n15 4000 feet high; and the cottage, a real cottage; not\\n(as a witty author has it) a cottage with a double\\ncoach-house let it be, in fact (for I must abide by\\nthe actual scene), a white cottage, embowered with\\nflowering shrubs, so chosen as to unfold a succession\\n20 of flowers upon the walls, and clustering round the\\nwindows through all the months of spring, summer,\\nand autumn beginning, in fact, with May roses, and\\nending with jasmine. Let it, however, not be spring,\\nnor summer, nor autumn but winter, in his sternest\\n25 shape. This is a most important point in the science", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 109\\nof happiness. And I am surprised to see people over-\\nlook it, and think it matter of congratulation that\\nwinter is going or, if coming, is not likely to be a\\nsevere one. On the contrary, I put up a petition annu-\\nally, for as much snow, hail, frost, or storm, of one kind\\nor other, as the skies can possibly afford us. Surely\\neverybody is aware of the divine pleasures which at-\\ntend a winter fire-side candles at four o clock, warm\\nhearth-rugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, cur-\\ntains flowing in ample draperies on the floor, whilst\\nthe wind and rain are raging audibly without,\\n\u00c2\u00b0And at the doors and windows seem to call,\\nAs heav n and earth they would together mell\\nYet the least entrance find they none at all\\nWhence sweeter grows our rest secure in massy hall.\\nCastle of Indolence.\\nAll these are items in the description of a winter\\nevening, which must surely be familiar to every body\\nborn in a high latitude. And it is evident, that most\\nof these delicacies, like ice-cream, require a very low\\ntemperature of the atmosphere to produce them they\\nare fruits which cannot be ripened without weather\\nstormy or inclement, in some way or other. I am not\\nparticular, as people say, whether it be snow, or\\nblack frost, or wind so strong, that (as \u00c2\u00b0Mr. [Clarkson]", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "110 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nsays) you may lean your back against it like a post,\\n1 can put up even with rain, provided it rains cats\\nand dogs but something of the sort I must have\\nand, if I have it not, I think myself in a manner ill-\\nused for why am I called on to pay so heavily for\\nwinter, in coals, and candles, and various privations\\nthat will occur even to gentlemen, if I am not to have\\nthe article good of its kind No a Canadian winter\\nfor my money or a Eussian one, where every man is\\nbut a co-proprietor with the north wind in the fee-\\nsimple of his own ears. Indeed, so great an epicure\\nam I in this matter, that I cannot relish a winter\\nnight fully if it. be much past \u00c2\u00b0St. Thomas s day, and\\nhave degenerated into disgusting tendencies to vernal\\nappearances no it must be divided by a thick wall\\nof dark nights from all return of light and sunshine.\\nFrom the latter weeks of October to Christmas\\nEve, therefore, is the period during which happiness\\nis in season, which, in my judgment, enters the room\\nwith the tea-tray for tea, though ridiculed by those\\nwho are naturally of coarse nerves, or are become so\\nfrom wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of in-\\nfluence from so refined a stimulant, will always be\\nthe favourite beverage of the intellectual and, for\\nmy part, I would have joined Dr. Johnson in a %eUum", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 111\\ninternecimmi against \u00c2\u00b0Joiias Hanway, or any other\\nimpious person, who shoukl presume to disparage it.\\nBut here, to save myself the trouble of too much\\nverbal description, I will introduce a painter; and give\\nhim directions for the rest of the picture. Painters\\ndo not like white cottages, unless a good deal weather-\\nstained but as the reader now understands that it is\\na winter night, his services will not be required, ex-\\ncept for the inside of the house.\\nPaint me, then, a room seventeen feet by twelve,\\nand not more than seven and a half feet high. This,\\nreader, is somewhat ambitiously styled, in my family,\\nthe drawing-room but, being contrived a double\\ndebt to pay, it is also, and more justly, termed the\\nlibrary for it happens that books are the only article\\nof property in which I am richer than my neighbours.\\nOf these, I have about five thousand, collected grad-\\nually since my eighteenth year. Therefore, painter,\\nput as many as you can into this room. Make it\\npopulous with books: and, furthermore, paint me a\\ngood fire; and furniture plain and modest, befitting\\nthe unpretending cottage of a scholar. And, near the\\nfire, paint me a tea-table and (as it is clear that no\\ncreature can come to see one such a stormy night,)\\nplace only two cups and saucers on the tea-tray and.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "112 COJSrFESSIONS OF AN\\nif you know how to paint siicli a thing symboli-\\ncally, or otherwise, paint me an eternal tea-pot\\neternal \u00c2\u00b0ci parte ante, and \u00c2\u00b0cl parte post for I usually\\ndrink tea from eight o clock at night to four o clock\\n5 in the morning. And, as it is very unpleasant to make\\ntea, or to pour it out for oneself, paint me a lovely\\nyoung woman, sitting at the table. Paint her arms\\nlike Aurora s and her smiles like \u00c2\u00b0Hebe s But no,\\ndear M [argaret], not even in jest let me insinuate that\\no thy power to illuminate my cottage rests upon a tenure\\nso perishable as mere personal beauty or that the\\nwitchcraft of angelic smiles lies within the empire of\\nany earthly pencil. Pass, then, my good painter, to\\nsomething more within its power and the next article\\n5 brought forward should naturally be myself a i)ic-\\nture of the Opium-eater, with his little golden re-\\nceptacle of the pernicious drug, lying beside him on\\nthe table. As to the opium, I have no objection to\\nsee a picture of that, though I would rather see the\\nJO original you may paint it, if you choose but I\\napprize you, that no little receptacle would, even\\nin 1816, answer my purpose, who was at a distance\\nfrom the stately Pantheon, and all druggists (mortal\\nor otherwise). No: you may as well paint the real\\n25 receptacle, which was not of gold, but of glass, and", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 113\\nas much like a wine-decanter as possible. Into this\\nyou may put a quart of ruby -coloured laudanum that,\\nand a book of German metaphysics placed by its side,\\nwill sufficiently attest my being in the neighbour-\\nhood; but, as to myself, there I demur. I admit 5\\nthat, naturally, I ought to occupy the foreground of\\nthe picture that being the hero of the piece, or (if\\nyou choose) the criminal at the bar, my body should\\nbe had into court. This seems reasonable but why\\nshould I confess, on this point, to a painter or why 10\\nconfess at all If the public (into whose private ear\\nI am confidentially whispering my confessions, and\\nnot into any painter s) should chance to have framed\\nsome agreeable picture for itself, of the Opium-eater s\\nexterior, should have ascribed to him, romantically, 15\\nan elegant person, or a handsome face, why should I\\nbarbarously tear from it so pleasing a delusion\\npleasing both to the public and to me No paint\\nme, if at all, according to your own fancy and, as a\\npainter s fancy should teem with beautiful creations, 20\\nI cannot fail, in that way, to be a gainer. And now,\\nreader, we have run through all the \u00c2\u00b0ten categories of\\nmy condition, as it stood about 1816-17 up to the\\nmiddle of which latter year I judge myself to have\\nbeen a happy man and the elements of that happi- 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "114 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nness I have endeavoured to place before you, in the\\nabove sketch of the interior of a scholar s library, in\\na cottage among the mountains, on a stormy winter\\nevening.\\n5 \u00c2\u00b0But now farewell a long farewell to happiness\\nwinter or summer ^Farewell to smiles and laughter!\\nFarewell to peace of mind Farewell to hope and to\\ntranquil dreams, and to the blessed consolations of\\nsleep For more than three years and a half I am\\nto summoned away from these I am now arrived at an\\n\u00c2\u00b0Iliad of woes for I have now to record\\nTHE PAINS OF OPIUM.\\nAs when some great painter dips\\nHis pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.\\nShelley s Bevolt of Islam.\\nEeader, who have thus far accompanied me, I must\\n[5 request your attention to a brief explanatory note on\\nthree points\\n1. For several reasons, I have not been able to\\ncompose the notes for this part of my narrative into\\nany regular and connected shape. I give the notes\\n20 disjointed as I find them, or have now drawn them\\nup from memory. Some of them point to their own", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 115\\ndate some I have dated and some are undated.\\nWhenever it could answer my purpose to transplant\\nthem from the natural or chronological order, I have\\nnot scrupled to do so. Sometimes I speak in the pres-\\nent, sometimes in the x^ast tense. Few of the notes, 5\\nperhaps, were written exactly at the period of time\\nto which they relate but this can little affect their\\naccuracy as the impressions were such that they can\\nnever fade from my mind. Much has been omitted.\\nI could not, without effort, constrain myself to the 10\\ntask of either recalling, or constructing into a regular\\nnarrative, the whole burthen of horrors which lies\\nupon my brain. This feeling partly I plead in excuse,\\nand partly that I am now in London, and am a help-\\nless sort of person, who cannot even arrange his own 15\\npapers without assistance and I am separated from\\nthe hands which are wont to perform for me the offices\\nof an amanuensis.\\n2. You will think, perhaps, that I am too confiden-\\ntial and communicative of my own private history. It 20\\nmay be so. But my way of writing is rather to think\\naloud, and follow my own humours, than much to con-\\nsider who is listening to me and if I stop to consider\\nwhat is proper to be said to this or that person, I\\nshall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "116 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nproper. The fact is, I place myself at a distance of\\nfifteen or twenty years ahead of this time, and sup-\\npose myself writing to those who will be interested\\nabout me hereafter and wishing to have some record\\n5 of time, the entire history of which no one can know\\nbut myself, I do it as fully as I am able with the\\nefforts I am now capable of making, because I know\\nnot whether I can ever find time to do it again.\\n3. It will occur to you often to ask, why did I not\\n10 release myself from the horrors of opium, by leaving\\nit off, or diminishing it To this I must answer\\nbriefly: it might be supposed that I yielded to the\\nfascinations of opium too easily; it cannot be sup-\\nposed that any man can be charmed by its terrors.\\n15 The reader may be sure, therefore, that I made at-\\ntempts innumerable to reduce the quantity. I add,\\nthat those who witnessed the agonies of those at-\\ntempts, and not myself, were the first to beg me to\\ndesist. But could not have I reduced it a drop a\\n20 day, or by adding water, have bisected or trisected a\\ndrop A thousand drops bisected would thus have\\ntaken nearly six years to reduce and that way would\\ncertainly not have answered. But this is a common\\nmistake of those who know nothing of opium experi-\\n25 mentally I appeal to those who do, whether it is not", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 111\\nalways found that down to a certain point it can be\\nreduced with ease and even pleasure, but that, after\\nthat point, further reduction causes intense suffer-\\ning. Yes, say many thoughtless persons, who know\\nnot what they are talking of, you will suffer a little\\nlow spirits and dejection for a few days. I answer,\\nno there is nothing like low spirits on the contrary,\\nthe mere animal spirits are uncommonly raised: the\\npulse is improved: the health is better. It is not\\nthere that the suffering lies. It has no resemblance\\nto the sufferings caused by renouncing wine. It is a\\nstate of unutterable irritation of stomach (which surely\\nis not much like dejection), accompanied by intense\\nperspirations, and feelings such as I shall not attempt\\nto describe without more space at my command.\\nI shall now enter in medias res and shall antici-\\npate, from a time when my opium pains might be said\\nto be at their acme, an account of their palsying effects\\non the intellectual faculties.\\nMy studies have now been long interrupted. I can-\\nnot read to myself with any pleasure, hardly with a\\nmoment s endurance. Yet I read aloud sometimes for\\nthe pleasure of others because, reading is an accom-\\nplishment of mine and, in the slang use of the word", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "118 CONFi:SSIONS OF AN\\naccomplishment as a superficial and ornamental attain-\\nment, almost the only one I possess and formerly, if\\nI had any vanity at all connected with any endow-\\nment or attainment of mine, it was with this for I\\n5 had observed that no accomplishment was so rare.\\nPlayers are the worst readers of all: \u00c2\u00b0[John Kemble]\\nreads vilely: and \u00c2\u00b0Mrs. [Siddons], who is so cele-\\nbrated, can read nothing well but dramatic composi-\\ntions Milton she cannot read sufferably. People in\\nlo general either read poetry without any passion at all,\\nor else \u00c2\u00b0overstep the modesty of nature, and read not\\nlike scholars. Of late, if I have felt moved by any-\\nthing in books, it has been by the \u00c2\u00b0grand lamentations\\nof Samson Agonistes, or the \u00c2\u00b0great harmonies of the\\n15 Satanic speeches in Paradise Kegained, when read\\naloud by myself. A \u00c2\u00b0young lady sometimes comes\\nand drinks tea with us: at her request and M[ar-\\ngaret] s, I now and then read W[ordsworth] s poems\\nto them. (W[ords worth], by the bye, is the only poet\\n20 I ever met who could read his own verses often\\nindeed he reads admirably.)\\nFor nearly two years I believe that I read no book\\nbut one and I owe it to the author, in discharge of a\\ngreat debt of gratitude, to mention what that was.\\n25 The sublimer and more passionate poets I still read,", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 119\\nas I have said, by snatches, and occasionally. But\\nmy proper vocation, as I well knew, was the exercise\\nof the analytic understanding. Now, for the most\\npart, analytic studies are continuous, and not to be\\npursued by fits and starts, or fragmentary efforts. 5\\n^lathematics, for instance, intellectual philosophy,\\nc. were all become insupportable to me I shrunk\\nfrom them with a sense of powerless and infantine\\nfeebleness that gave me an anguish the greater from\\nremembering the time when I grappled with them to 10\\nmy own hourly delight; and for this further reason,\\nbecause I had devoted the labour of my whole life,\\nand had dedicated my intellect, blossoms and fruits,\\nto the slow and elaborate toil of constructing one\\nsingle work, to which I had presumed to give the 15\\ntitle of an unfinished work of \u00c2\u00b0Spinosa s viz. De\\nemendatione hamani intellectus. This was now lying\\nlocked up, as by frost, like any Spanish bridge or\\naqueduct, begun upon too great a scale for the\\nresources of the architect; and, instead of surviving 20\\nme as a monument of wishes at least, and aspira-\\ntions, and a life of labour dedicated to the exaltation\\nof human nature in that way in which God had best\\nfitted me to promote so great an object, it was likely\\nto stand a memorial to my children of hopes defeated, 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "120 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nof baffled efforts, of materials uselessly accumulated,\\nof foundations laid that were never to support a super-\\nstructure, of the grief and the ruin of the architect.\\nIn this state of imbecility, I had, for amusement,\\nturned my attention to political economy my under-\\nstanding, which formerly had been as active and rest-\\nless as a hyaena, could not, I suppose (so long as I\\nlived at all) sink into utter lethargy; and political\\neconomy offers this advantage to a person in my state,\\nthat though it is eminently an organic science (no\\npart, that is to say, but what acts on the whole, as\\nthe whole again re-acts on each part), yet the several\\nparts may be detached and contemplated singly.\\nGreat as was the prostration of my powers at this\\ntime, yet I could not forget my knowledge and my\\nunderstanding had been for too many years intimate\\nwith severe thinkers, with logic, and the great masters\\nof knowledge, not to be aware of the utter feebleness\\nof the main herd of modern economists. I had been\\nled in 1811 to look into loads of books and pamphlets\\non many branches of economy and, at my desire,\\nM[argaret] sometimes read to me chapters from more\\nrecent works, or parts of parliamentary debates. I\\nsaw that these were generally the very dregs and\\nrinsings of the human intellect; and that any man", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 121\\nof sound head, and practised in wielding logic with\\na scholastic adroitness, might take up the whole\\nacademy of modern economists, and throttle them\\nbetween heaven and earth with his finger and thumb,\\nor bray their fungus heads to powder with a lady s 5\\nfan. At length, in 1819, a friend in Edinburgh sent\\nme down \u00c2\u00b0Mr. Ricardo s book and recurring to my own\\nprophetic anticipation of the advent of some legislator\\nfor this science, I said, before I had finished the first\\nchapter, Thou art the man Wonder and curiosity 10\\nwere emotions that had long been dead in me. Yet I\\nwondered once more I wondered at myself that I could\\nonce again be stimulated to the effort of reading and\\nmuch more I wondered at the book. Had this pro-\\nfound work been really written in England during the 15\\nnineteenth century Was it possible I supposed\\nthinking had been extinct in England. Could it be\\nthat an Englishman, and he not in academic bowers,\\nbut oppressed by mercantile and senatorial cares, had\\naccomplished what all the universities of Europe, and 20\\na century of thought, had failed even to advance by\\none hair s breadth? All other writers had been\\ncrushed and overlaid by the enormous weight of\\nfacts and documents; Mr. Eicardo had deduced, \u00c2\u00b0d\\npriori, from the understanding itself, laws which 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "122 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nfirst gave a ray of light into the unwieldy chaos of\\nmaterials, and had constructed what had been but a\\ncollection of tentative discussions into a science of\\nregular proportions, now first standing on an eternal\\nbasis.\\nThus did one single work of a profound under-\\nstanding avail to give me a pleasure and an activity\\nwhich I had not known for years it roused me\\neven to write, or at least to dictate, what M[argaret]\\nwrote for me. It seemed to me, that some important\\ntruths had escaped even the inevitable eye of Mr.\\nRicardo and as these were, for the most part, of such\\na nature that 1 could express or illustrate them more\\nbriefly and elegantly by algebraic symbols than in\\nthe usual clumsy and loitering diction of economists,\\nthe whole w^ould not have filled a pocket-book; and\\nbeing so brief, with M[argaret] for my amanuensis,\\neven at this time, incapable as I was of all general\\nexertion, I drew up my Prolegomena to all future\\n/Si/stetns of Political Economy. I hope it will not be\\nfound redolent of opium; though, indeed, to most\\npeople, the subject is a sufficient opiate.\\nThis exertion, however, was but a temporary flash\\nas the sequel showed for I designed to publish my\\nwork arrangements were made at a provincial press,", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 123\\nabout eighteen miles distant, for printing it. An\\nadditional compositor was retained, for some days,\\non this account. The work was even twice adver-\\ntised and I was, in a manner, pledged to the fulfil-\\nment of my intention. But I had a preface to write 5\\nand a dedication, which I wished to make a splendid\\none, to Mr. Ricardo. I found myself quite unable to\\naccomplish all this. The arrangements were counter-\\nmanded: the compositor dismissed: and my Prolego-\\nmena rested peacefully by the side of its elder and 10\\nmore dignified brother.\\nI have thus described and illustrated my intel-\\nlectual torpor, in terms that apply more or less to\\nevery part of the four years during which I was under\\nthe \u00c2\u00b0Circean spells of opium. But for misery and 15\\nsuffering, I might, indeed, be said to have existed in a\\ndormant state. I seldom could prevail on myself to\\nwrite a letter an answer of a few words, to any\\nthat I received, was the utmost that I could accom-\\nplish; and often that not until the letter had lain 20\\nweeks, or even months, on my writing table. With-\\nout the aid of M[argaret] all records of bills paid or\\nto he paid must have perished and my whole domes-\\ntic economy, whatever became of Political Economy,\\nmust have gone into irretrievable confusion. I shall 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "124 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nnot afterwards allude to this part of the case it is\\none, however, which the opium-eater will find, in the\\nend, as oppressive and tormenting as any other, from\\nthe sense of incapacity and feebleness, from the direct\\n5 embarrassments incident to the neglect or procrasti-\\nnation of each day s approj)riate duties, and from the\\nremorse which must often exasperate the stings of\\nthese evils to a reflective and conscientious mind.\\nThe opium-eater loses none of his moral sensibilities,\\n10 or aspirations: he wishes and longs, as earnestly as\\never, to realize what he believes possible, and feels\\nto be exacted by duty but his intellectual apprehen-\\nsion of what is possible infinitely outruns his power,\\nnot of execution only, but even of power to attempt.\\n15 He lies under the weight of incubus and night-mare:\\nhe lies in sight of all that he would fain perform,\\njust as a man forcibly confined to his bed by the mor-\\ntal languor of a relaxing disease, who is compelled to\\nwitness injury or outrage offered to some object of his\\n20 tenderest love: he curses the spells which chain\\nhim down from motion he would lay down his\\nlife if he might but get up and walk but he is\\npowerless as an infant, and cannot even attempt to\\nrise.\\n25 I now pass to what is the main subject of these", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 125\\nlatter confessions, to the history and journal of what\\ntook place in my dreams for these were the imme-\\ndiate and proximate cause of my acutest suffering.\\nThe first notice I had of any important change\\ngoing on in this part of my ^Dhysical economy, was 5\\nfrom the re-awakening of a state of eye generally\\nincident to childhood, or exalted states of irritability,\\nI know not whether my reader is aware that many\\nchildren, perhaps most, have a power of painting, as\\nit were, upon the darkness, all sorts of phantoms in 10\\nsome, that power is simply a mechanic affection of\\nthe eye others have a voluntary, or a semi-voluntary\\npower to dismiss or to summon them or, as a child\\nonce said to me when I questioned him on this mat-\\nter, I can tell them to go, and they go but some- 15\\ntimes they come, when I don t tell them to come.\\nWhereupon I told him that he had almost as unlim-\\nited a command over apparitions, as a Koman centu-\\nrion over his soldiers. In the middle of 1817, I\\nthink it was, that this faculty became positively 20\\ndistressing to me at night, when I lay awake in\\nbed, vast processions passed along in mournful pomp\\n\u00c2\u00b0friezes of never-ending stories, that to my feelings\\nwere as sad and solemn as if they were stories drawn\\nfrom times before \u00c2\u00b0(li]dipus or \u00c2\u00b0Priam before \u00c2\u00b0Tyre 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "126 aoxFESSiuNS of an\\nbefore Memphis. And, at tlie same time a corre-\\nsponding change took place in my dreams a theatre\\nseemed suddenly opened and lighted up within my\\nbrain, which presented nightly spectacles of more\\n5 than earthly splendour. And the four following facts\\nmay be mentioned, as noticeable at this time\\n1. That, as the creative state of the eye increased,\\na sympathy seemed to arise between the waking and\\nthe dreaming states of the brain in one point that\\n10 whatsoever I happened to. call up and to trace by a\\nvoluntary act upon the darkness was very apt to\\ntransfer itself to my dreams so that I feared to\\nexercise this faculty for, as Midas turned all things\\nto gold, that yet baffled his hopes and defrauded his\\n15 human desires, so whataeever things capable of being\\nvisually represented I did but think of in the dark-\\nness, immediately shaped themselves into phantoms\\nof the eye and, by a process apparently no less in-\\nevitable, when thus once traced in faint and visionary\\n20 colours, like writings in sympathetic ink, they were\\ndrawn out by the fierce chemistry of my dreams, into\\ninsufferable splendour that fretted my heart.\\n2. For this, and all other changes in my dreams,\\nwere accompanied by deep-seated anxiety and gloomy\\n25 melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 127\\nwords. I seemed every night to descend, not meta-\\nphorically, but literally to descend, into chasms and\\nsunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it\\nseemed hopeless that I could ever re-ascend. Nor\\ndid I, by waking, feel that I had re-ascended. This 5\\nI do not dwell upon; because the state of gloom\\nwhich attended these gorgeous spectacles, amounting\\nat last to utter darkness, as of some suicidal despon-\\ndency, cannot be approached by words.\\n3. The sense of space, and in the end, the sense 1\u00c2\u00b0\\nof time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings,\\nlandscapes, c. were exhibited in proportions so vast\\nas the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space\\nswelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutter-\\nable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so 15\\nmuch as the vast expansion of time; I sometimes\\nseemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one\\nnight; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of\\na millennium passed in that time, or, however, of a\\nduration far beyond the limits of any human ex- 20\\nperience.\\n4. The minutest incidents of childhood, or forgot-\\nten scenes of later years, were often revived I could\\nnot be said to recollect them for if I had been told\\nof them when waking, I should not have been able 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "128 con fessio:n s of an\\nto acknowledge them as parts of my past experience.\\nBut placed as they were before me, in dreams like\\nintuitions, and clothed in all their evanescent circum-\\nstances and accompanying feelings, I recogyiised them\\n5 instantaneously. I was once told by a \u00c2\u00b0near relative\\nof mine, that having in her childhood fallen into a\\nriver, and being on the very verge of death but for\\nthe critical assistance which reached her, she saw in\\na moment her whole life, in its minutest incidents,\\nlo arrayed before her simultaneously as in a mirror;\\nand she had a faculty developed as suddenly for com-\\nprehending the whole and every part. This, from\\nsome opium experiences of mine, I can believe; I\\nhave, indeed, seen the same thing asserted twice in\\n15 modern books, and accompanied by a remark which\\nI am convinced is true; viz. that the \u00c2\u00b0dread book of\\naccount, which the Scriptures speak of is, in fact, the\\nmind itself of each individual. Of this at least, I\\nfeel assured, that there is no such thing as forgetting\\n20 possible to the mind a thousand accidents may, and\\nwill interpose a veil between our present conscious-\\nness and the secret inscriptions on the mind; acci-\\ndents of the same sort will also rend away this veil\\nbut alike, whether veiled or unveiled, the inscription\\n25 remains for ever just as the stars seem to with-", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 129\\ndraw before the common light of day, whereas, in\\nfact, we all know that it is the light which is drawn\\nover them as a veil and that they are waiting to be\\nrevealed when the obscuring daylight shall have with-\\ndrawn. 5\\nHaving noticed these four facts as memorably dis-\\ntinguishing my dreams from those of health, I shall\\nnow cite a case illustrative of the first fact; and shall\\nthen cite any others that I remember, either in their\\nchronological order, or any other that may give them lo\\nmore effect as pictures to the reader.\\nI had been in youth, and even since, for occasional\\namusement, a great reader of \u00c2\u00b0Livy, whom, I confess,\\nthat I prefer, both for style and matter, to any other\\nof the Roman historians: and I had often felt as 15\\nmost solemn and appalling sounds, and most emphati-\\ncally representative of the majesty of the Eoman\\npeople, the two words so often occurring in Livy\\nConsul Eomanus especially when the consul is in-\\ntroduced in his military character. I mean to say 20\\nthat the words king sultan regent, c. or any\\nother titles of those who embody in their own persons\\nthe collective majesty of a great people, had less\\npower over my reverential feelings. I had also,\\nthough no great reader of history, made myself min- 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "130 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nutely and critically familipa with one period of Eng-\\nlish history, viz. the period of the Parliamentary War,\\nhaving been attracted by the moral grandeur of some\\nwho figured in that day, and by the many interesting\\nmemoirs which survive those unquiet times. Both\\nthese parts of my lighter reading, having furnished\\nme often with matter of reflection, now furnished me\\nwith matter for my dreams. Often I used to see,\\nafter painting upon the blank darkness a sort of re-\\nhearsal whilst waking, a crowd of ladies, and perhaps\\na festival, and dances. And I heard it said, or I said to\\nmyself, These are English ladies from the unhappy\\ntimes of Charles I. These are the wives and the\\ndaughters of those who met in peace, and sate at the\\nsame table, and were allied by marriage or by blood\\nand yet, after a ^certain day in August, 1642, never\\nsmiled upon each other again, nor met but in the field\\nof battle; and at \u00c2\u00b0Marston Moor, at Newbury, or at\\nNaseby cut asunder all ties of love by the cruel sabre,\\nand washed away in blood the memory of ancient\\nfriendship. The ladies danced, and looked as lovely\\nas the court of George IV. Yet I knew, even in my\\ndream, that they had been in the grave for nearly two\\ncenturies. This pageant would suddenly dissolve:\\nand, at a clapping of hands would be heard the heart-", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 131\\nquaking sound of Consul Bomanus and immediately\\ncame sweeping by, in gorgeous paludaments,\\n\u00c2\u00b0Paulus or Marius, girt round by a company of cen-\\nturions, with the crimson tunic hoisted on a spear,\\nand followed by the \u00c2\u00b0aIalagmos of the Roman legions. 5\\nMany years ago, when I was looking over \u00c2\u00b0Piranesi s\\nAntiquities of Rome, Mr. Coleridge, who was standing\\nby, described to me a set of plates by that artist, called\\nhis Dreams, and which record the scenery of his own\\nvisions during the delirium of a fever Some of them 10\\n(I describe only from memory of Mr. Coleridge s ac-\\ncount) represented vast Gothic halls on the floor of\\nwhich stood all sorts of engines and machinery, wheels,\\ncables, pulleys, levers, catapults, c. c. expressive\\nof enormous power put forth, and resistance overcome. 15\\nCreeping along the sides of the walls, you perceive a\\nstaircase and upon it, groping his way upwards, w^as\\nPiranesi himself follow the stairs a little further, and\\nyou perceive it come to a sudden and abrupt termina-\\ntion, without any balustrade, and allowing no step 20\\nonwards to him who had reached the extremity,\\nexcept into the depths below. Whatever is to become\\nof poor Piranesi, you suppose, at least, that his labours\\nmust in some way terminate here. But raise your eyes,\\nand behold a second flight of stairs still higher: on 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "132 CON-FESSIONS OF AN\\nwhich again Piranesi is perceived, but this time stand-\\ning on the very brink of the abyss. Again elevate\\nyour eye, and a still more aerial flight of stairs is\\nbeheld and again is poor Piranesi busy on his aspir-\\ning labours and so on, until the unfinished stairs and\\nPiranesi both are lost in the upper gloom of the hall.\\nWith the same power of endless growth and self-\\nreproduction did my architecture proceed in dreams.\\nIn the early stage of my malady, the splendours of\\nmy dreams were indeed chiefly architectural and I\\nbeheld such pomp of cities and palaces as was never\\nyet beheld by the waking eye, unless in the clouds.\\nFrom \u00c2\u00b0a great modern poet I cite part of a passage\\nwhich describes, as an appearance actually beheld in\\nthe clouds, what in many of its circumstances I saw\\nfrequently in sleep\\nThe appearance, instantaneously disclosed,\\nWas of a mighty city boldly say\\nA wilderness of building, sinking far\\nAnd self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth,\\nFar sinking into splendor\u00e2\u0080\u0094 without end\\nFabric it seem d of diamond, and of gold.\\nWith alabaster domes, and silver spires,\\nAnd blazing terrace upon terrace, high\\nUplifted here, serene pavilions bright\\nIn avenues disposed there towers begirt", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 133\\nWith battlements that on their restless fronts\\nBore stars illumination of all gems\\nBy earthly nature had the effect been wrought\\nUpon the dark materials of the storm\\nNow pacified on them, and on the coves,\\nAnd mountain-steeps and summits, whereunto\\nThe vapours had receded, taking there\\nTheir station under a cerulean sky. c. c.\\nThe sublime circumstance battlements that on\\ntheir restless fronts bore stars, might have been\\ncopied from my architectural dreams, for it often\\noccurred. We hear it reported of \u00c2\u00b0Dryden and of\\n\u00c2\u00b0Fuseli, in modern times, that they thought proper\\nto eat raw meat for the sake of obtaining splendid\\ndreams how much better for such a purpose to have\\neaten opium, which yet I do not remember that any\\npoet is recorded to have done, except the dramatist\\n\u00c2\u00b0Shadwell and in ancient days, \u00c2\u00b0Homer is, I think,\\nrightly reputed to have known the virtues of opium.\\nTo my architecture succeeded dreams of lakes\\nand silvery expanses of water: these haunted me so\\nmuch that I feared (though possibly it will appear ludi-\\ncrous to a medical man) that some dropsical state or\\ntendency of the brain might thus be making itself (to\\nuse a metaphysical word) objective and the sentient\\norgan project itself as its own object. For two months", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "134 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nI have suffered greatly in my head, a part of my bod-\\nily structure which had hitherto been so clear from all\\ntouch or taint of weakness (physically, I mean), that I\\nused to say of it, as \u00c2\u00b0the last Lord Orford said of his\\nstomach, that it seemed likely to survive the rest of\\nmy person. Till now I had never felt a head-ach even,\\nor any the slightest pain, except rheumatic pains caused\\nby my own folly. However, I got over this attack,\\nthough it must have been verging on something very\\ndangerous.\\nThe waters now changed their character, from\\ntranslucent lakes, shining like mirrors, they now be-\\ncame seas and oceans. And now came a tremendous\\nchange, which, unfolding itself slowly like a scroll,\\nthrough many months, promised an abiding torment\\nand, in fact, it never left me until the winding up of\\nmy case. Hitherto the human face had mixed often in\\nmy dreams, but not despotically nor with any special\\npower of tormenting. But now that which I have called\\nthe tyranny of the human face began to unfold itself.\\nPerhaps some part of my London life might be answer-\\nable for this. Be that as it may, now it was that upon\\nthe rocking waters of the ocean the human face began\\nto appear the sea appeared paved with innumerable\\nfaces, upturned to the heavens faces, imploring, wrath-", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 135\\nful, despairing, surged upward by thousands, by myr-\\niads, by generations, by centuries my agitation\\nwas infinite, my mind tossed and surged with the\\nocean.\\nMay, 1818.\\nThe Malay has been a fearful enemy for months.\\nI have been every night, through his means, transported\\ninto Asiatic scenes. I know not whether others share\\nin my feelings on this point but I have often thought\\nthat if I were compelled to forego England, and to live\\nin China, and among Chinese manners and modes of\\nlife and scenery, I should go mad. \u00c2\u00b0The causes of my\\nhorror lie deep and some of them must be common to\\nothers. Southern Asia, in general, is the seat of awful\\nimages and associations. As the cradle of the hnman\\nrace, it would alone have a dim and reverential feeling\\nconnected with it. But there are other reasons. No\\nman can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capri-\\ncious superstitions of Africa, or of savage tribes else-\\nwhere, affect him in the Avay that he is affected by the\\nancient, monumental, cruel, and elaborate religions of\\nIndostan, c. The mere antiquity of Asiatic things,\\nof their institutions, histories, modes of faith, c. is so\\nimpressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "1.3G confjlSsions of an\\noverpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A\\nyoung Chinese seems to me an antediluvian man re-\\nnewed. Even Englishmen, though not bred in any\\nknowledge of such institutions, cannot but shudder at\\nthe mystic sublimity of castes that have flowed apart,\\nand refused to mix, through such immemorial tracts\\nof time nor can any man fail to be awed by the names\\nof the Ganges, or the Euphrates. It contributes much\\nto these feelings, that southern Asia is, and has been\\nfor thousands of years, the part of the earth most\\nswarming with human life the great \u00c2\u00b0officina gentium.\\nMan is a weed in those regions. The vast empires also,\\nin which the enormous population of Asia has always\\nbeen cast, give a further sublimity to the feelings asso-\\nciated with all Oriental names or images. In China,\\nover and above what it has in common with the rest of\\nsouthern Asia, I am terrified by the modes of life, by\\nthe manners, and the barrier of utter abhorrence, and\\nwant of sympathy, placed between us by feelings\\ndeeper than I can analyse. I could sooner live with\\nlunatics, or brute animals. All this, and much more\\nthan I can say, or have time to say, the reader must\\nenter into before he can comprehend the unimaginable\\nhorror which these dreams of Oriental imagery, and\\nmythological tortures, impressed upon me. Under the", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 137\\nconnecting feeling of tropical heat and vertical sun-\\nlights, I brought together all creatures, birds, beasts,\\nreptiles, all trees and plants, usages and appearances,\\nthat are found in all tropical regions, and assembled\\nthem together in China or Indostan. From kindred 5\\nfeelings, I soon brought Egypt and all her gods under\\nthe same law. I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at,\\nchattered at, by monkeys, by paroquets, by cockatoos.\\nI ran into pagodas and was fixed, for centuries, at the\\nsummit or in secret rooms I was the idol I was the 10\\npriest I was worshipped I was sacrificed. I fled\\nfrom the wrath of \u00c2\u00b0Brama through all the forests of\\nAsia \u00c2\u00b0Vishnu hated me \u00c2\u00b0Seeva laid wait for me. I\\ncame suddenly upon \u00c2\u00b0Isis and \u00c2\u00b0Osiris I had done a\\ndeed, they said, which the ibis and the crocodile trem- 15\\nbled at. I was buried, for a thousand years, in stone\\ncoffins, with mummies and sphynxes, in narrow cham-\\nbers at the heart of eternal pyramids. I was kissed,\\nwith cancerous kisses, by crocodiles and laid, con-\\nfounded with all unutterable slimy things, amongst 20\\nreeds and Nilotic mud.\\nI thus give the reader some slight abstraction of\\nmy Oriental dreams, which always filled me with such\\namazement at the monstrous scenery, that horror\\nseemed absorbed, for a while, in sheer astonishment. 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "138 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nSooner or later, came a reflux of feeling that swal-\\nlowed up the astonishment, and left me, not so much\\nin terror, as in hatred and abomination of what I saw.\\nOver every form, and threat, and punishment, and\\n5 dim sightless incarceration, brooded a sense of eternity\\nand infinity that drove me into an oppression as of\\nmadness. Into these dreams only, it was, with one\\nor two slight exceptions, that any circumstances of\\nphysical horror entered. All before had been moral\\nto and spiritual terrors. But here the main agents were\\nugly birds, or snakes, or crocodiles; especially the\\nlast. The cursed crocodile became to me the object\\nof more horror than almost all the rest. I was com-\\npelled to live with him and (as was always the case\\n15 almost in my dreams) for centuries. I escaped some-\\ntimes, and found myself in Chinese houses, with cane\\ntables, c. All the feet of the tables, sophas, c.\\nsoon became instinct with life the abominable head\\nof the crocodile, and his leering eyes, looked out at\\n20 me, multiplied into a thousand repetitions and I\\nstood loathing and fascinated., And so often did this\\nhideous reptile haunt my dreams, that many times the\\nvery same dream was broken up in the very same way:\\nI heard gentle voices speaking to me (I hear every-\\n25 thing when I am sleeping) and instantly I awoke", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 139\\nit was broad noon and my children were standing,\\nhand in hand, at my bed-side come to show me\\ntheir coloured shoes, or new frocks, or to let me see\\nthem dressed for going out. I protest that so awful\\nwas the transition from the damned crocodile, and 5\\nthe other unutterable monsters and abortions of my\\ndreams, to the sight of innocent human natures and\\nof infancy, that, in the mighty and sudden revulsion\\nof mind, I wept, and could not forbear it, as I kissed\\ntheir faces. 10\\nJune, 1819.\\nI have had occasion to remark, at various periods\\nof my life, that the deaths of those whom we love,\\nand indeed the contemplation of death generally, is\\n\u00c2\u00b0{ccBteris paribus) more affecting in summer than in\\nany other season of the year. And the reasons are 15\\nthese three, I think first, that the visible heavens in\\nsummer appear far higher, more distant, and (if such\\na solecism may be excused) more infinite the clouds,\\nby which chiefly the eye expounds the distance of\\nthe blue pavilion stretched over our heads, are in 20\\nsummer more voluminous, massed, and accumulated\\nin far grander and more towering piles secondly, the\\nlight and the appearances of the declining and the\\nsetting sun are much more fitted to be types and", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "140 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\ncharacters of the Infinite and, thirdly, (which is tlie\\nmain reason) the exuberant and riotous prodigality of\\nlife naturally forces the mind more powerfully upon\\nthe antagonist thought of death, and the wintry\\n5 sterility of the grave. For it may be observed, gen-\\nerally, that wherever two thoughts stand related to\\neach other by a law of antagonism, and exist, as it\\nwere, by mutual repulsion, they are apt to suggest\\neach other. On these accounts it is that I find it\\nlo impossible to banish the thought of death when I am\\nwalking alone in the endless days of summer; and\\nany particular death, if not more affecting, at least\\nhaunts my mind more obstinately and besiegingly\\nin that season. Perhaps this cause, and a slight\\n15 incident which I omit, might have been the imme-\\ndiate occasions of the following dream to which,\\nhowever, a predisposition must always have existed\\nin my mind; but having been once roused it never\\nleft me, and split into a thousand fantastic varieties,\\n20 which often suddenly re-united, and composed again\\nthe original dream.\\nI thought that it was a Sunday morning in May,\\nthat it was Easter Sunday, and as yet very early in\\nthe morning. I was standing, as it seemed to me, at\\n25 the door of my own cottage. Eight before me lay the", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 141\\nvery scene which could really be commanded from that\\nsituation, but exalted, as was usual, and solemnized by\\nthe power of dreams. There were the same mountains,\\nand the same lovely valley at their feet but the moun-\\ntains were raised to more than Alpine height, and there\\nwas interspace far larger between them of meadows\\nand forest lawns the hedges were rich with white\\nroses; and no living creature was to be seen, except-\\ning that in the green church-yard there were cattle\\ntranquilly reposing upon the verdant graves, and par-\\nticularly round about the grave of a \u00c2\u00b0child whom I\\nhad tenderly loved, just as I had really beheld them,\\na little before sun-rise in the same summer, when that\\nchild died. I gazed upon the well-known scene, and\\nI said aloud (as I thought) to myself, It yet wants\\nmuch of sun-rise and it is Easter Sunday and that\\nis the day on which they celebrate the \u00c2\u00b0first fruits of\\nresurrection. \u00c2\u00b01 will walk abroad old griefs shall be\\nforgotten to-day for the air is cool and still, and the\\nhill are high, and stretch away to Heaven; and the\\nforest-glades are as quiet as the church-yard and\\nwith the dew I can wash the fever from my fore-\\nhead, and then I shall be unhappy no longer. And\\nI turned, as if to open my garden gate and immedi-\\nately I saw upon the left a scene far different; but", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "142 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nwhich yet the power of dreams had reconciled into\\nharmony with the other. The scene was an Orien-\\ntal one and there also it was Easter Sunday, and\\nvery early in the morning. And at a vast distance\\n5 were visible, as a stain upon the horizon, the domes\\nand cupolas of a great city an image or faint ab-\\nstraction, caught perhaps in childhood from some\\npicture of Jerusalem. And not a bow-shot from me,\\nupon a stone and \u00c2\u00b0shaded by Judean palms, there sat\\n10 a woman; and I looked; and it was Ann! She\\nfixed her eyes upon me earnestly and I said to her\\nat length: So then I have found you at last. I\\nwaited but she answered me not a word. Her face\\nwas the same as when I saw it last, and yet again\\n15 how different! Seventeen years ago, when the lamp-\\nlight fell upon her face, as for the last time I kissed\\nher lips (lips, Ann, that to me were not polluted), her\\neyes were streaming with tears \u00c2\u00b0the tears were now\\nwiped away she seemed more beautiful than she\\n20 was at that time, but in all other points the same,\\nand not older. Her looks were tranquil, but with\\nunusual solemnity of expression and I now gazed\\nupon her with some awe but suddenly her counte-\\nnance grew dim, and, turning to the mountains, I\\n25 perceived vapours rolling between us in a moment,", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-?: ATER 143\\nall had vanished thick darkness came on and, in\\nthe twinkling of an eye, I was far away from monn-\\ntains, and by lamp-light in Oxford-street, walking\\nagain with Ann just as we walked seventeen years\\nbefore, when we were both children. 5\\nAs a \u00c2\u00b0final specimen, I cite one of a different char-\\nacter, from 1820.\\nThe dream commenced with a music which now I\\noften heard in dreams a music of preparation and\\nof awakening suspense a music like the opening of lo\\nthe Coronation Anthem, and which, like that, gave\\nthe feeling of a vast march of infinite cavalcades\\nfiling off and the tread of innumerable armies. The\\nmorning was come of a mighty day a day of crisis\\nand of final hope for human nature, then suffering 15\\nsome mysterious eclipse, and labouring in some dread\\nextremity. Somewhere, I knew not where some-\\nhow, I knew not how by some beings, I knew not\\nwhom a battle, a strife, an agony, was conducting,\\nwas evolving like a great drama, or piece of music; 20\\nwith which my sympathy was the more insupportable\\nfrom my confusion as to its place, its cause, its na-\\nture, and its x^ossible issue. I, as is usual in dreams,\\n(where, of necessity, we make ourselves central to\\nevery movement), had the power, and yet had not 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "144 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nthe power, to decide it. I had the power, if I could\\nraise myself, to will it and yet again had not the\\npower, for the weight of twenty Atlantics was upon\\nnie, or the oppression of inexpiable guilt. Deeper\\n5 than ever plummet sounded, I lay inactive. Then,\\nlike a chorus, the passion deepened. Some greater in-\\nterest was at stake; some mightier cause than ever\\nyet the sword had pleaded, or trumpet had proclaimed.\\nThen came sudden alarms: hurryings to and fro: trepi-\\n10 dations of innumerable fugitives, I knew not whether\\nfrom the good cause or the bad darkness and lights\\ntempest and human faces and at last, with the sense\\nthat all was lost, female forms, and the features that\\nwere worth all the world to me, and but a moment al-\\n15 lowed, and clasped hands, and heart-breaking part-\\nings, and then everlasting farewells \u00c2\u00b0and with a\\nsigh, such as the caves of hell sighed when the in-\\ncestuous mother uttered the abhorred name of death,\\nthe sound was reverberated everlasting farewells\\n20 and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting\\nfarewells\\nAnd I awoke in struggles, and cried aloud I\\nwill sleep no more.\\nBut I am now called upon to Avind up a narrative", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 145\\nwhich has already extended to an unreasonable length.\\nWithin more spacious limits, the materials which I\\nhave used might have been better unfolded and much\\nwhich I have not used might have been added with\\neffect. Perhaps, however, enough has been given. It -5\\nnow remains that I should say something of the way\\nin which this conflict of horrors was finally brought\\nto a crisis. The reader is already aware (from a pas-\\nsage near the beginning of the introduction to the first\\npart) that the opium-eater has, in some way or other, lo\\nunwound, almost to its final links, the accursed chain\\nwdiich bound him. By what means To have nar-\\nrated this, according to the original intention, would\\nhave far exceeded the space Avhich can now be allowed.\\nIt is fortunate, as such a cogent reason exists for 15\\nabridging it, that I should, on a maturer view of the\\ncase, have been exceedingly unwilling to injure, by\\nany such unaffecting details, the impression of the\\nhistory itself, as an appeal to the prudence and the\\nconscience of the yet unconfirmed opium-eater or 20\\neven f though a very inferior consideration) to injure\\nits effect as a composition. The interest of the judi-\\ncious reader will not attach itself chiefly to the subject\\nof the fascinating spells, but to the fascinating power.\\nNot the opium-eater, but the opium, is the true hero 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "146 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nof the tale, and the legitimate centre on which the\\ninterest revolves. The object was to display the mar-\\nvellous agency of opium, whether for pleasure or for\\npain if that is done, the action of the piece has closed.\\nHowever, as some people, in spite of all laws to the\\ncontrary, will persist in asking what became of the\\nopium-eater, and in what state he now is, I answer for\\nhim thus The reader is aware that opium had long\\nceased to found its empire on spells of pleasure; it\\nwas solely by the tortures connected with the attempt\\nto abjure it that it kept its hold. Yet, as other tor-\\ntures, no less it may be thought, attended the non-\\nabjuration of such a tyrant, a choice only of evils was\\nleft and that might as well have been adopted, which,\\nhowever terrific in itself, held out a prospect of final\\nrestoration to happiness. This appears true; but good\\nlogic gave the author no strength to act upon it. How-\\never, a crisis arrived for the author s life, and a crisis\\nfor other objects still dearer to him and which will\\nalways be far dearer to him than his life, even now\\nthat it is again a happy one. I saw that I must die\\nif I continued the opium I determined, therefore, if\\nthat should be required, to die in throwing it off.\\nHow much I was at that time taking I cannot say\\nfor the opium which I used had been purchased for", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 147\\nme by a friend who afterwards refused to let me pay\\nhim so that I could not ascertain even what quantity\\nI had used within the year. I apprehend, however,\\nthat I took it very irregularly and that I varied from\\nabout fifty or sixty grains to 150 a-day. My first task\\nwas to reduce it to forty, to thirty, and, as fast as I\\ncould, to twelve grains.\\nI triumphed but think not, reader, that therefore\\nmy sufferings were ended, nor think of me as of one\\nsitting in a dejected state. Think of me as one, even\\nwhen four months had passed, still agitated, Avrithing,\\nthrobbing, palpitating, shattered and much, perhaps,\\nin the situation of him who has been racked, as I col-\\nlect the torments of that state from the affecting\\naccount of them left by \u00c2\u00b0a most innocent sufferer (of\\nthe times of James I.). Meantime,,! derived no bene-\\nfit from any medicine, except one prescribed to me by\\nan Edinburgh surgeon of great eminence, viz. ammoni-\\nated tincture of Valerian. Medical account, therefore,\\nof my emancipation I have not much to give and\\neven that little, as managed by a man so ignorant of\\nmedicine as myself, would probably tend only to mis-\\nlead. At all events, it would be misplaced in this\\nsituation. The moral of the narrative is addressed to\\nthe opium-eater and therefore, of necessity, limited", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "148 CONFESSIONS OF AN\\nin its application. If he is taught to fear and tremble,\\nenough has been effected. But he may say, that the\\nissue of my case is at least a proof that opium, after\\na seventeen years use and an eight years abuse of\\nits powers, may still be renounced: and that he may\\nchance to bring to the task greater energy than I did,\\nor that with a stronger constitution than mine he may\\nobtain the same results with less. This may be true\\nI would not presume to measure the efforts of other\\nmen by my own I heartily wish him more energy I\\nwish him the same success. Nevertheless, I had mo-\\ntives external to myself which he may unfortunately\\nwant and these supplied me with conscientious sup-\\nports which mere personal interests might fail to sup-\\nply to a mind debilitated by opium.\\n\u00c2\u00b0Lord Bacon conjectures that it may be as painful\\nto be born as to die I think it probable and, during\\nthe whole period of diminishing the opium, I had\\nthe torments of a man passing out of one mode of\\nexistence into another. The issue was not death, but\\na sort of physical regeneration and I may add, that\\never since, at intervals, I have had a restoration of\\nmore than youthful spirits, though under the pressure\\nof difficulties, which, in a less happy state of mind, I\\nshould have called misfortunes.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 149\\nOne memorial of my former condition still remains\\nmy dreams are not yet perfectly calm the dread swell\\nand agitation of the storm have not wholly subsided\\nthe legions that encamped in them are drawing off,\\nbut not all departed my sleep is still tumultuous,\\nand, like the gates of Paradise to our first parents when\\nlooking back from afar, it is still (in the tremendous\\nline of Milton)\\n\u00c2\u00b0With dreadful faces throng d and fiery arms.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH\\nOPIUM-EATER\\nAPPENDIX\\n\u00c2\u00b0The interest excited by the two papers bearing this\\ntitle, in our Numbers for September and October, 1821,\\nwill have kept our promise of a Third Part fresh in\\nthe remembrance of our Keaders. That we are still\\nunable to fulfil our engagement in its original mean-\\ning, will, we are sure, be matter of regret to them, as\\nto ourselves, especially when they have perused the\\nfollowing affecting narrative. It was composed for\\nthe purpose of being appended to an Edition of the\\nConfessions, in a separate Volume, which is already\\nbefore the public; and we have reprinted it entire,\\nthat our Subscribers may be in possession of the whole\\nof this extraordinary history.\\nThe proprietors of this little work having deter-\\nmined on reprinting it, some explanation seems called 15\\nfor, to account for the non-appearance of a third part\\n151", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "152 APPENDIX\\npromised in the London Magazine of December last\\nand the more so because the Proprietors, under whose\\nguarantee that promise was issued, might otherwise be\\nimplicated in the blame little or much attached\\n5 to its non-fulhlment. This blame, in mere justice,\\nthe author takes wholly upon himself. What may be\\nthe exact amount of the guilt which he thus appropri-\\nates, is a very dark question to his own judgment,\\nand not much illuminated by any of the masters in\\nlo casuistry whom he has consulted on the occasion. On\\nthe one hand, it seems generally agreed that a prom-\\nise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to\\nwhom it is made for which reason it is that we see\\nmany persons break promises without scruple that\\n15 are made to a whole nation, who keep their faith\\nreligiously in all private engagements, breaches of\\npromise towards the stronger party being committed\\nat a man s own peril on the other hand, the only\\nparties interested in the promises of an author are his\\n20 readers and these it is a point of modesty in any\\nauthor to believe as few as possible; or perhaps only\\none, in which case any promise imposes a sanctity of\\nmoral obligation which it is shocking to think of.\\nCasuistry dismissed, however, the author throws\\n25 himself on the indidgent consideration of all who may", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX 153\\nconceive themselves aggrieved by his delay in the\\nfollowing account of his own condition from the end\\nof last year, when the engagement was made, up nearly\\nto the present time. For any purpose of self-excuse,\\nit might be sufficient to say that intolerable bodily\\nsuffering had totally disabled him for almost any\\nexertion of mind, more especially for such as demands\\nand presupposes a pleasurable and genial state of\\nfeeling: but, as a case that may by possibility con-\\ntribute a trifle to the medical history of Opium, in a\\nfurther stage of its action than can often have been\\nbrought under the notice of professional men, he has\\njudged that it might be acceptable to some readers to\\nhave it described more at length. \u00c2\u00b0Fiat experimentnm\\nin corpore vili is a just rule where there is any reason-\\nable presumption of benefit to arise on a large scale\\nwhat the benefit may be will admit of a doubt but\\nthere can be none as to the value of the body for a\\nmore worthless body than his own, the author is free\\nto confess, cannot be. It is his pride to believe that\\nit is the very ideal of a base, crazy, despicable human\\nsystem that hardly ever could have been meant to\\nbe sea-worthy for two days under the ordinary storms\\nand wear-and-tear of life: and indeed, if that were\\nthe creditable way of disposing of human bodies, he", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "154 APPENDIX\\nmust own that he should almost be ashamed to be-\\nqueath his wretched structure to any respectable dog.\\nBut now to the case; which, for the sake of avoid-\\ning the constant recurrence of a cumbersome periph-\\nrasis, the author will take the liberty of giving in the\\nfirst person.\\nThose who have read the Confessions will have\\nclosed them with the impression that I had wholly\\nrenounced the use of Opium. This impression I meant\\nto convey and that for two reasons first, because\\nthe very act of deliberately recording such a state of\\nsuffering necessarily presumes in the recorder a power\\nof surveying his own case as a cool spectator, and a\\ndegree of spirits for adequately describing it, which\\nit would be inconsistent to suppose in any person\\nspeaking from the station of an actual sufferer:\\nsecondly, because I, who had descended from so large\\na quantity as 8,000 drops to so small a one (compara-\\ntively speaking) as a quantity ranging between 300\\nand 160 drops, might well suppose that the victory\\nwas in effect achieved. In suffering ray readers,\\ntherefore, to think of me as of a reformed opium-\\neater, I left no impression but what I shared my-\\nself; and, as may be seen, even this impression was", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX 155\\nleft to be collected from the general tone of the con-\\nchision, and not from any specific words which\\nare in no instance at variance with the literal truth.\\nIn no long time after that paper was written, I\\nbecame sensible that the effort which remained would 5\\ncost me far more energy than I had anticipated and\\nthe necessity for making it was more apparent every\\nmonth. In particular I became aware of an increas-\\ning callousness or defect of sensibility in the stomach\\nand this I imagined might imply a scirrhous state of lo\\nthat organ either formed or forming. An eminent\\nphysician, to whose kindness I was at that time\\ndeeply indebted, informed me that such a termination\\nof my case was not impossible, though likely to be\\nforestalled by a different termination, in the event of 15\\nmy continuing the use of opium. Opium therefore I\\nresolved wholly to abjure, as soon as I should find\\nmyself at liberty to bend my undivided attention and\\nenergy to this purpose. It was not however until the\\n24th of June last that any tolerable concurrence of 20\\nfacilities for such an attempt arrived. On that day I\\nbegan my experiment, having previously settled in my\\nown mind that I would not flinch, but would stand\\nup to the scratch under any possible punish-\\nment. I must premise that about 170 or 180 drops 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "156 APPENDIX\\nhad been my ordinary allowance for many months\\noccasionally I had run up as high as 500; and once\\nnearly to 700 in repeated preludes to my final experi-\\nment I had also gone as low as 100 drops; but had\\n5 found it impossible to stand it beyond the fourth day\\nwhich, by the way, I have always found more\\ndifficult to get over than any of the preceding three.\\nI went off under easy sail 130 drops a day for three\\ndays on the fourth I plunged at once to 80 the\\nlo misery which I now suffered took the conceit out\\nof me at once and for about a month I continued off\\nand on about this mark then I sunk to 60 and the\\nnext day to none at all. This was the first day for\\nnearly ten years that I had existed without opium.\\n15 I persevered in my abstinence for 90 hours; i.e.\\nupwards of half a week. Then I took ask me not\\nhow much say, ye severest, wdiat would ye have\\ndone Then I abstained again then took about 25\\ndrops then abstained and so on.\\nJO Meantime the symptoms which attended my case\\nfor the first six weeks of the experiment were these\\nenormous irritability and excitement of the whole\\nsystem: the stomach in particular restored to a full\\nfeeling of vitality and sensibility but often in great\\n23 pain unceasing restlessness night and day sleep", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX 157\\nI scarcely knew what it was three hours out of the\\ntwenty-four was the utmost I had, and that so agi-\\ntated and shallow that I heard every sound that was\\nnear me lower jaw constantly swelling: mouth ulcer-\\nated and many other distressing symptoms that would\\nbe tedious to repeat; amongst which however I must\\nmention one, because it had never failed to accompany\\nany attempt to renounce opium viz. violent sternu-\\ntation. This now became exceedingly troublesome:\\nsometimes lasting for two hours at once, and recurring\\nat least twice or three times a day. I was not much\\nsurprised at this, on recollecting what I had some-\\nwhere heard or read, that the membrane which lines\\nthe nostrils is a prolongation of that which lines the\\nstomach whence, I believe, are explained the inflam-\\nmatory appearances about the nostrils of dram drink-\\ners. The sudden restoration of its original sensibility\\nto the stomach expressed itself, I suppose, in this\\nway. It is remarkable also that, during the whole\\nperiod of years through which I had taken opium,\\nI had never once caught cold (as the phrase is), nor\\neven the slightest cough. But now a violent cold\\nattacked me, and a cough soon after. In an unfin-\\nished fragment of a letter begun about this time to\\n1 find these words You ask me to write the", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "158 APPENDIX\\nDo you know \u00c2\u00b0Beaiimont and Fletcher s\\nplay of Thierry and Theodoret There you will see my\\ncase as to sleep nor is it much of an exaggeration\\nin other features. I protest to you that I have a\\n5 greater influx of thoughts in one hour at present than\\nin a whole year under the reign of opium. It seems\\nas though all the thoughts which had been frozen up\\nfor a decad of years by opium, had now, according to\\nthe \u00c2\u00b0old fable, been thawed at once such a multitude\\nlo stream in upon me from all, quarters. Yet such is my\\nimpatience and hideous irritability that, for one\\nwhich I detain and write down, fifty escape me in spite\\nof my weariness from suffering and want of sleep, I\\ncannot stand still or sit for two minutes together.\\n15 I nunc, et versus tecum meditare canoros.\\nAt this stage of my experiment I sent to a neigh-\\nbouring surgeon, requesting that he would come over\\nto see me. In the evening he came and after briefly\\nstating the case to him, I asked this question\\n20 Whether he did not think that the opium might have\\nacted as a stimulus to the digestive organs and that\\nthe present state of suffering in the stomach, which\\nmanifestly was the cause of the inability to sleep,\\nmight arise from indigestion His answer was\\n25 No: on the contrary he thought that the suffering", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX 159\\nwas caused by digestion itself which should natu-\\nrally go on below the consciousness, but which from\\nthe unnatural state of the stomach, vitiated by so\\nlong a use of opium, was become distinctly percep-\\ntible. This opinion was plausible and the uninter-\\nmitting nature of the suffering disposes me to think\\nthat it was true for, if it had been any mere irregular\\naffection of the stomach, it should naturally have in-\\ntermitted occasionally, and constantly fluctuated as\\nto degree. The intention of nature, as manifested in\\nthe healthy state, obviously is to withdraw from\\nour notice all the vital motions, such as the circula-\\ntion of the blood, the expansion and contraction of\\nthe lungs, the peristaltic action of the stomach, c.\\nand opium, it seems, is able in this, as in other in-\\nstances, to counteract her purposes. By the advice\\nof the surgeon I tried hitters for a short time these\\ngreatly mitigated the feelings under which I laboured:\\nbut about the forty-second day of the experiment the\\nsymptoms already noticed began to retire, and new\\nones to arise of a different and far more tormenting\\nclass under these, but with a few intervals of remis-\\nsion, I have since continued to suffer. But I dismiss\\nthem undescribed for two reasons 1st, because the\\nmind revolts from retracing circumstantially any suf-", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "160 APPENDIX\\nferings from which it is removed by too short or by\\nno interval: to do this with minuteness enough to\\nmake the review of any use would be indeed infan-\\nclum renovare dolorem, and possibly without a suffi-\\n5 cient motive: for 2dly, I doubt whether this latter\\nstate be anyway referable to opium positively con-\\nsidered, or even negatively that is, whether it is to\\nbe numbered amongst the last evils from the direct\\naction of opium, or even amongst the earliest evils\\nlo consequent upon a tvant of opium in a system long\\nderanged by its use. Certainly one part of the symp-\\ntoms might be accounted for from the time of year\\n(August) for, though the summer was not a hot one,\\nyet in any case the sum of all the heat funded (if one\\n15 may say so) during the previous months, added to the\\nexisting heat of that month, naturally renders August\\nin its better half the hottest part of the year and it\\nso happened that the excessive perspiration, which\\neven at Christmas attends any great reduction in the\\n20 daily quantum of opium and which in. July was so\\nviolent as to oblige me to use a bath five or six times\\na day, had about the setting in of the hottest season\\nwholly retired: on which account any bad effect of\\nthe heat might be the more unmitigated. Another\\n25 symptom, viz^ what in my ignorance I call internal", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX 161\\nrlieiimatism (sometimes affecting the shoulders, c.,\\nbut more often appearing to be seated in the stomach),\\nseemed again less probably attributable to the opium or\\nthe want of opium than to the dampness of the house\\nwhich I inhabit, which had about that time attained 5\\nits maximum July having been, as usual, a month\\nof incessant rain in our most rainy part of England.\\nUnder these reasons for doubting whether opium\\nhad any connexion with the latter stage of my bodily\\nwretchedness (except indeed as an occasional cause, 10\\nas having left the body weaker and more crazy, and\\nthus predisposed to any mal-influence whatever),\\nI willingly spare my reader all description of it let\\nit perish to him and would that I could as easily\\nsay, let it perish to my own remembrances that any 15\\nfuture hours of tranquillity may not be disturbed by\\ntoo vivid an ideal of possible human misery\\nSo much for the sequel of my experiuient: as to\\nthe former stage, in which properly lies the experi-\\nment and its application to other cases, I must request 20\\nmy reader not to forget the reasons for which I have\\nrecorded it these were two 1st, a belief that I\\nmight add some trifle to the history of opium as a\\nmedical agent in this I am aware that I have not at\\nall fulfilled my own intentions, in consequence of the 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "162 APPENDIX\\ntorpor of mind pain of body and extreme disgust\\nto the subject which besieged me whilst writing that\\npart of my paper; which part, being immediately sent\\noff to the press (distant about five degrees of latitude),\\ncannot be corrected or improved. But from this ac-\\ncount, rambling as it may be, it is evident that thus\\nmuch of benefit may arise to the persons most inter-\\nested in such a history of opium viz. to Opium-eaters\\nin general that it establishes, for their consolation\\nand encouragement, the fact that opium may be re-\\nnounced and without greater sufferings than an ordi-\\nnary resolution may support and by a \u00c2\u00b0pretty rapid\\ncourse of descent.\\nTo communicate this result of my experiment\\nwas my foremost purpose. 2dly, as a purpose collat-\\neral to this, I wished to explain how it had become\\nimpossible for me to compose a Third Part in time\\nto accompany this republication for during the very\\ntime of this experiment, the proof-sheets of this re-\\nprint were sent to me from London and such was\\nmy inability to expand or, to improve them, that I\\ncould not even bear to read them over with attention\\nenough to notice the press errors, or to correct any\\nverbal inaccuracies. These were my reasons for troub-\\nling my reader with any record, long or short, of", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX 163\\nexperiments relating to so truly base a subject as my\\nown body and I am earnest with the reader, that he\\nwill not forget them, or so far misapprehend me as to\\nbelieve it possible that I would condescend to \u00c2\u00b0so ras-\\ncally a subject for its own sake, or indeed for any less 5\\nobject than that of general benefit to others. Such an\\nanimal as the self-observing valetudinarian I know\\nthere is: T have met him myself occasionally and I\\nknow that he is the worst imaginable \u00c2\u00b0lieautontimorou-\\nmeiios; aggravating and sustaining, by calling into 10\\ndistinct consciousness, every symptom that would else\\nperhaps under a different direction given to the\\nthoughts become evanescent. But as to myself, so\\nprofound is my contempt for this undignified and self-\\nish habit, that I could as little condescend to it as I 15\\ncould to spend my time in watching a poor servant\\ngirl to whom at this moment I hear some lad or\\nother making love at the back of my house. Is it for\\na Transcendental Philosopher to feel any curiosity on\\nsuch an occasion Or can I, whose life is worth only 20\\neight and a half years purchase, be supposed to have\\nleisure for such trivial employments However, to\\nput this out of question, I shall say one thing, which\\nwill perhaps shock some readers but I am sure it\\nought not to do so, considering the motives on which 25", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "1G4: APPENDIX\\nI say it. No man, I suppose, employs mucli of his\\ntime on the phenomena of his own body without some\\nregard for it; whereas the reader sees that, so far from\\nlooking upon mine with any complacency or regard, I\\n5 hate it and make it the object of my bitter ridicule\\nand contempt and I should not be displeased to know\\nthat the last indignities which the law inflicts upon\\nthe bodies of the worst malefactors might hereafter\\nfall upon it. And, in testification of my sincerity in\\nlo saying this, I shall make the following offer. Like\\nother men, I have particular fancies about the place\\nof my burial having lived chiefly in a mountainous\\nregion, I rather cleave to the conceit, that a grave in\\na green churchyard, amongst the ancient and solitary\\n15 hills, will be a sublimer and more tranquil place of\\nrepose for a philosopher than any in the hideous \u00c2\u00b0G-ol-\\ngothas of London. Yet if the gentlemen of Surgeons\\nHall think that any benefit can redound to their sci-\\nence from inspecting the appearances in the body of\\n20 an Opium-eater, let them speak but a word, and I will\\ntake care that mine shall be legally secured to them\\ni.e. as soon as I have done with it myself. Let them\\nnot hesitate to express their wishes upon any scruples\\nof false delicacy, and consideration for my feelings\\n25 I assure them they will do me too much honour by", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX 165\\ndemonstrating on such a crazy body as mine and\\nit will give me pleasure to anticipate this posthumous\\nrevenge and insult inflicted upon that which has caused\\nme so much suffering in this life. Such bequests are\\nnot common: reversionary benefits contingent upon 5\\nthe death of the testator are indeed dangerous to an-\\nnounce in many cases of this we have a remarkable\\ninstance in the habits of a \u00c2\u00b0Koman prince who used,\\nupon any notification made to him by rich persons,\\nthat they had left him a handsome estate in their ic\\nwills, to express his entire satisfaction at such arrange-\\nments, and his gracious acceptance of those loyal leg-\\nacies but then, if the testators neglected to give him\\nimmediate possession of the property, if they traitor-\\nously persisted in living {si vivere j^erseverarent, as 15\\n\u00c2\u00b0Suetonius expresses it), he was highly provoked, and\\ntook his measures accordingly. In those times, and\\nfrom one of the worst of the Caesars, we might expect\\nsuch conduct but I am sure that from English sur-\\ngeons at this day I need look for no expressions of 2c\\nimpatience, or of any other feelings, but such as are\\nanswerable to that pure love of science and all its\\ninterests, which induces me to make such an offer.\\nSept. 30, 1822.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "NOTES\\nPage 1, line 13. decent drapery. All the decent drapery\\nof life is to be rudely torn off. Burke, Beflections on the\\nEevolution in France.\\nPage 2, line 8. French literature. He here refers to Les\\nConfessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Les Con-\\nfessions was published posthumously, 1782.\\n1. 8. that part of the German. He refers to such books as\\nGoethe s Die Leiden des jungen Werther, 1774.\\nPage 3, line 1. humbly to express.\\nIt was a solitary mound\\nWhich two spears length of level ground\\nDid from all other graves divide\\nAs if in some respect of pride\\nOr melancholy s sickly mood,\\nStill shy of human neighbourhood\\nOr guilt, that humbly would express\\nA penitential loneliness.\\nWordsworth, The White Doe of Rylstone, Canto I.\\nPage 4, line 3. not yet recorded. Not yet recorded,^ I\\nsay for there is one celebrated man [Coleridge] of the present\\nday, who, if all be true which is reported of him, has greatly\\nexceeded me in quantity. De Quincey s Note.\\n167", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "168 NOTES [Page 5\\nPage 5, line 3. William Wilberforce (1759-1833) the famous\\nphilanthropist, advocate of Catholic Emancipation, and of the\\nabolition of the Slave Trade. The original text has a comma\\nafter Wilberforce.\\n1. 4. the late Dean of Carlisle. Dr. Isaac Milner (1750-\\n1820). He v^^as an intimate friend of Wilberforce. Elected\\npresident of Queen s College, Cambridge, 1788. Presented to\\nthe deanery of Carlisle, 1791.\\n1. 4. Lord Erskine. Thomas Erskine (1750-1823) the noted\\norator and lavi^yer.\\n1. 5. Mr. the philosopher. Who is Mr. Dash, the\\nphilosopher Really I have forgot. Not through any fault of\\nmy own, but on the motion of some absurd coward having a\\nvoice potential at. the press, all the names [in this sentence]\\nwere struck out behind my back in the first edition of the book,\\nthirty -five years ago. I was not consulted, and did not discover\\nthe absurd blanks until some months afterwards, when I was\\ntaunted with them very reasonably by a caustic reviewer. Noth-\\ning could have a more ludicrous effect than this appeal to\\nshadows to my Lord Dash, to Dean Dash, and to Mr. Secre-\\ntary Dash. Very naturally it thus happened to Mr. Philosopher\\nDash that his burning light, alas was extinguished irrecover-\\nably in the general melee. Meantime, there was no excuse what-\\never for this absurd interference, such as might have been alleged\\nin any personality capable of causing pain to any one person\\nconcerned. All the cases, except, perhaps, that of Wilberforce\\n(about which I have at this moment some slight lingering doubts)\\nwere matters of notoriety to large circles of friends. It Is due to", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "Page 8] NOTES 169\\nMr. John Taylor, the accomplished publisher of the work, that\\nI should acquit him ol any share in this absurdity. De\\nQuincey s Note (ed. 1856).\\n1. 5. a late Under-Secretary of State. Mr. Addington,\\nbrother of Henry Addington first Lord Sidmouth (who suc-\\nceeded Pitt as Prime Minister in 1800).\\n1.10. Mr. Coleridge. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834),\\npoet and critic best known by his Ancient 3Iariner and Kubla\\nKhan, poems closely related to the visions of the Confessions.\\nPage 6, line 20. That those eat now, etc. An adaptation of\\nthe refrain in the Pervigilium Veneris, an anonymous Latin\\npoem of the second or third century a.d.;\\nCras amet qui nunquam amavit, quique amavit eras amet,\\nwhich Parnell (1679-1718) thus paraphrases\\nLet those love now, who never lov d before,\\nLet those who always lov d, now love the more.\\n1. 24. Awsiter. John Awsiter, M.D. Died 1768.\\nPage 7, line 3. Mead. Richard Mead (1673-1754) Physician\\nto George II.\\n1. 6. ^tavavra (twctoio-i. From Pindar (b.c. 522-443),\\nOlympian Odes, 2, 1. 152, meaning, a word to the wise, or\\na word to those in the secret. This line is the legend of\\nGray s TJie Progress of Poesy.\\nPage 8, line 21. whose talk is of oxen. How can he get\\nwisdom that holdeth the plow, and that glorieth in the goad, that\\ndriveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk\\nis of bullocks? JEcclesiasticus xxxviii. 25.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "170 NOTES [Page 9\\nPage 9, line 5. Humani nihil a se alienum putat. An adap-\\ntation of the famous line in Terence s (about b.c. 195-159) play,\\nHeautontimorumenos Homo sum humani nihil a me alienum\\nputo.\\n1. 14. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. See note to p. 5, 1. 10.\\n1.16. David Ricardo (1772-1828). His most important book,\\nThe Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817), laid\\nthe foundations of the classical political economy more\\nsecurely than even Adam Smith. A third exception might\\nperhaps have been added and my reason for not adding that\\nexception is chiefly because it was only in his juvenile efforts that\\nthe w^riter w^hom I allude to, expressly addressed himself to philo-\\nsophical themes his riper povt^ers having been all dedicated (on\\nvery excusable and very intelligible grounds, under the present\\ndirection of the popular mind in England) to criticism and the\\nFine Arts. Apart, however, I doubt whether he is not rather to\\nbe considered an acute thinker than a subtle one. It is, besides,\\nit great drawback on his mastery over philosophical subjects that\\nhe has obviously not had the advantage of a regular scholastic\\neducation he has not read Plato in his youth (which most likely\\nwas only his misfortune), but neither has he read Kant in his\\nmanhood (which is his fault). De Quincey s Note. The\\nthird exception is probably William Hazlitt (1778-1830),\\naccording to Garnett.\\n1. 18. inner eye. Compare Wordsworth, The Daffodils,\\ninward eye.\\n1. 24. Scottish professors. I disclaim any allusion to exist-\\ning professors, of whom indeed 1 know only one. De Quin-", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "Page 13] NOTES 171\\ncey s Note. He refers to John Wilson, commonly known as\\nChristopher North (1785-1854), Professor of Moral Philosophy\\nin the University of Edinburgh, and author of Nodes Amhrosi-\\nance^ a series of papers which appeared in BlackwoocVs Maga-\\nzine from 1822 to 1833. He was one of DeQuincey s most\\nintimate friends.\\nPage 10, line 19. a most painful affection of the stomach.\\nI have, I believe, now fully established my proposition that\\ngastrodynia in its aggravated form is a terrible and distressing\\ndisease and, in an aggravated form, I believe that Thomas De\\nQuincey suffered from it. From Appendix I. of Japp, Thomas\\nDe Quincey His Life and Writings. {A Medical Vieiv of De\\nQuincey s Case, by Surgeon-Major W. C; B, Eatwell, M.D.)\\nPage 12, line 6. He who scholar. Mr. Morgan, of Bath\\nGrammar School, where De Quincey was from 1796 to 1798.\\n1. 7. a ripe and a good one.\\nHe was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.\\nHenry F///., IV., ii., 51.\\nSpoken of Cardinal Wolsey, by Griffith.\\n1. 11. blockhead. Eev. Edward Spencer, rector of Wink-\\nfield, to whose private school De Quincey was transferred from\\nBath School, in 1799, after a short trial of home tuition.\\n1. 13. respectable scholar. Mr. Lawson, head of the Man-\\nchester Grammar School, where De Quincey was sent, in 1800,\\nvery much against his will, and from which he ran away (as he\\ntells us in the Confessions) in July, 1802.\\nPage 13, line 5. sacrifice to the graces. The Graces are the", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "172 NOTES [Page 13\\ngoddesses of grace, and of everything which lends charm and\\nbeauty to nature and human life. Their names are Euphrosyn^\\n(Joy), Thalia (Bloom), and Aglia (Brilliance). HarjMfs\\nClassical Dictionary. Hence the phrase means to write\\npoetry.\\n1. 6. Sophocles. Born about b.c. 495, in the deme of\\nColonus, near Athens. He brought Greek tragedy to its per-\\nfection. He died b.c. 405.\\n1. 8. Archididasculus. A humorous use of the Greek word\\nfor head-master.\\n1. 15. epigrams. The Greek epigram was simply a short\\npoem written in the elegiac couplet. The epigram with a point\\nwas a Roman invention. It is probable that De Quincey uses it\\nin this latter sense, thus defined by Scaliger\\nThe qualities rare in a bee that we meet,\\nIn an epigram never should fail\\nThe body should always be little and sweet,\\nAnd a sting should be left in its tail.\\nPage 14, line 14. a woman of high rank. For the last three\\nyears, in particular, Lady Carbery, a young woman some ten\\nyears older than myself, and who was as remarkable for her\\nintellectual pretensions as she was for her beauty and benevo-\\nlence, had maintained a correspondence with me upon questions\\nof literature. Confessions (ed. 1856), Works, III., p. 280.\\nHer maiden name was Watson, and she had taken a warm in-\\nterest in De Quincey from his childhood.\\nPage 15, line 7. a just remark of Dr. Johnson s. In his last\\nessay in The Idler (No. 103, Saturday, April 5, 1760) entitled", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "Page 18] NOTES 173\\nThe Horrour of the Last: There are few things not purely-\\nevil, of whicli we can say, without some emotion of uneasiness,\\nthis is the last. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), is perhaps the\\ngreatest man of letters in English literature, and is the subject\\nof the greatest biography in English Boswell s Life of John-\\nson.\\nPage 16, line 15. drest in earliest light. The editor has not\\nbeen able to find the source of this quotation.\\nPage 17, line 11, pensive citadel.\\nNuns fret not at their convent s narrow room;\\nAnd hermits are contented with their cells\\nAnd students with their pensive citadels.\\nWordsworth, Nuns Fret Not.\\n1. 17. dedicated to intellectual pursuits. Compare Words-\\nworth s statement that he felt himself a dedicated Spirit.\\nThe Prelude, Bk. IV.\\nPage 18, line 2. the lovely The housekeeper was in\\nthe habit of telling me that the lady had lived (meaning, perhaps,\\nhad been born) two centuries ago that date would better agree\\nwith the tradition that the portrait was a copy from Vandyke.\\nAll that she knew further about the lady was that either to the\\nGrammar school, or to that particular college at Oxford with\\nwhich the school was connected, or else to that particular col-\\nlege at Oxford with which Mr. Lawson personally was con-\\nnected, or else, fourthly, to Mr. Lawson himself as a private\\nindividual, the unknown lady had been a special benefactress.\\nShe was also a special benefactress to me through eighteen\\nmonths by means of her sweet Madonna countenance. And", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "174 NOTES [Page 18\\nin some degree it serves to spiritualize and to hallow this ser-\\nvice that of her v^ho imconsciousl}^ rendered it I knew neither\\nthe name, nor the exact rank or age, nor the place where she\\nlived and died. She was parted from me by perhaps two cen-\\nturies I from her by the gulf of eternity. De Quincey s\\nNote (ed. 1856).\\n1. 12. So blended and intertwisted tears. Compare\\nShelley, To a Skylark, st. 18\\nOur siucerest laughter\\nWith some pain is fraught;\\nOur sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.\\nPage 19, lines 7-8. of Atlantean shoulders. Adapted from\\nMilton s description of Beelzebub\\nSage he stood\\nWith Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear\\nThe weight of mightiest monarchies.\\nParadise Lost, I., 304-307.\\n1. 9. Salisbury plain. An undulating plateau, near Salis-\\nbury, in Wilts, in the midst of which Stonehenge is situated.\\nFormerly a sterile tract, it has been converted into a fertile\\ndistrict by the advance of agriculture.\\nPage 20, line 4. contretems. The standard spelling is con-\\ntretemps. French for mishap.\\n1. 6. the Seven Sleepers. Seven Christians of Ephesus\\nwho, according to the story of Gregory of Tours fled to a cave\\nat the time of the persecution under the emperor Decius in the\\nthird century, and there fell into a sleep that lasted for nearly\\ntwo hundred years. Returning to the city, they experienced", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "Page 22] NOTES 175\\nthe surprise that Rip Van Winkle felt on his famous return,\\nand at last discovered the truth regarding their sleep. Having\\nhad an interviev^ with the emperor, and convinced him of the\\nlife beyond the grave, they sank into a second sleep that is to\\nlast until the Resurrection. Harper s Classical Dictionary.\\n1. 10. \u00c2\u00a7tourderie. French for blunder. In the edition\\nof 1856 comic wilfulness is substituted.\\n1. 24. with Providence my guide. Adapted from Milton\\nThe world was all before them, where to choose\\nTheir place of rest, and Providence their guide.\\nParadise Lost, XII., 646-647.\\nPage 21, line 2, a favourite English poet. Doubtless a\\nvolume of Wordsworth s early poems.\\n1. 4. Euripides. Born b. c. 480, in Salamis. The last of\\nthe three great Greek dramatists ^schylus, Sophocles, and\\nEuripides. He died b.c. 406. He seems to have been a favor-\\nite writer of De Quincey s.\\n1.7. other personal accounts. Amongst the attractions\\nthat drew me so strongly to the Lakes, there had also by that\\ntime arisen in this lovely region the deep, deep magnet (as to\\nme only in all this world it then was) of William Wordsworth.\\nEdition of 1856, Works, III., p. 283.\\n1. 7. Accident, however, gave a different direction. The\\naccident is explained at very great length in the edition of\\n1856.\\nPage 22, line 7. Not to know them, etc. Adapted from\\nMilton: Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.\\nParadise Lost, IV., 830.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "176 NOTES [Page 22\\n1.24. noli me tangere. Touch me not.\\nPage 23, line 1. ol iroXXoi, the common people, the com-\\nmonalty.\\nPage 27, line 6. Westmoreland. In this case the spelling of\\nthe original text is Westmorland.\\nPage 29, line 12. Greek Sapphics or Alcaics. Sappho and\\nAlcseus were contemporaries, toward the end of the seventh\\ncentury b.c. They lived in Lesbos, and were the two great\\nleaders of the ^oiian school of Greek lyric poetry. The fol-\\nlowing stanza from A. C. Swinburne s Sapphics., referring to\\nSappho, is in the Sapphic metre\\nAh the singing, ah the delight, the passion!\\nAll the Loves wept, listening sick with angnish,\\nStood the crowned nine Muses about Apollo;\\nFear was upon them.\\nTennyson s Hilton is an imitation of the Alcaic metre\\nO mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies,\\nO skiird to sing of Time or Eternity,\\nGod-gifted organ-voice of England,\\nMilton, a name to resound for ages.\\n1. 16. Mr. Shelley is right old age. Revolt of Islam,\\nIV., V. X., where he describes the gentle Hermit, whose\\nheart had grown old, but had corrupted not, because all\\nthe ways of man among mankind he read.\\n1. 21. means which I must omit for want of room. Given\\nfully in the edition of 1850, Works, III., pp. 339-848.\\nPage 33, line 6. the plan of Cromwell. Cromwell\\nrarely lodged two nights together in one chamber, but had", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "Page 37] NOTES 177\\nmany furnished and prepared. Clarendon, History of the\\nBehellion^ Bk. XV. Quoted by Hunter.\\nPage 34, line 9. Blue-beard room. The room in which\\nBluebeard kept the bodies of his murdered wives, and into\\nwhich he forbade his wife to go hence, a forbidden room. See\\nthe familiar tale of Bluebeard.\\n1. 12. Whether this child, etc. Dickens must have had\\nthe whole situation in his mind when he drew the Marchioness\\nand Sally Brass in his Old Curiosity Shop. Garnett.\\n1. 19. Tartarus. In the Iliad, Tartarus is a place beneath\\nthe earth, as far below Hades as Heaven is above the earth, and\\nclosed by iron gates. Later poets use the name as synonymous\\nwith Hades. Harper s Classical Dictionary.\\nPage 35, line 12. laying down. That is, finding them\\ntoo expensive, De Quincey.\\n1. 20. cycle and epicycle.\\nhow gird the Sphere\\nWith Centric and Eccentric scribbled o er,\\nCycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb,\\nMilton, Paradise Lost, VIII., 82-84.\\nPage 36, line 6. Dr. Johnson wall-fruit. Recorded in\\nMrs. Piozzi s Anecdotes of the Late Dr. Samuel Johnson.\\n1. 12. the world was all before us. See note to p. 20, 1. 24,\\nfor the source of this.\\nPage 37, line 3. eighteen years ago. In a Notice to the\\nHeader in the October, 1821, London Magazine., De Quincey has\\nN", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "178 NOTES [Page 37\\ncorrected this to nineteen^ explaining that the incidents re-\\ncorded, in the Preliminary Confessions lie between the early\\npart of July, 1802, and the beginning of March, 1803.\\nPage 38, line 2. Sine Cerere, etc. Sine Cerere et Libero\\nfriget Venus. Terence, Eunuchus, IV., v. 6. Without\\nbread and wine love grows cold.\\n1. 5. But the truth is, etc. In this and the following sen-\\ntence De Quincey anticipates a large part of Walt Whitman s\\nmessage.\\n1. 10. more Socratico. After the manner of Socrates,\\nwho never opened a school and never lectured publicly, nor\\ndid he receive any money for teaching, but went about in the\\nmost public parts of Athens, such as the market place, the\\ngymnasia, and the work shops, seeking opportunity for awak-\\ning in the young and old alike moral consciousness and an\\nimpulse toward self-knowledge with respect to the end and\\nvalue of human action. Harper^ s Classical Dictionary.\\n1. 16. poor limitary creature. Compare Milton, proud\\nlimitary Cherub, Paradise Lost, IV., 971.\\nPage 42, line 17. to chace to haunt to waylay. Remi-\\nniscent of Wordsworth, She was a Phantom of Delight: To\\nhaunt, to startle, and waylay.\\n1. 25. too deep for tears. From Wordsworth, Ode on the\\nIntimations of Immortality^ last line.\\nPage 43, line 14. Yet some feelings for ever. Com-\\npare, for a more extended expression of a similar idea, in a", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "Page 51] NOTES 179\\nsimilar rhythm, Robert Louis Stevenson s Dedication of David\\nBalfour: You are still as when first I saw, as when last\\nI addressed you in the venerable city which I must always\\nthink of as my home. And I have come so far and the\\nsights and thoughts of my youth pursue me and I see like\\na vision the youth of my father, and of his father, and\\nthe whole stream of lives flowing down there, far in the\\nnorth, with the sound of laughter and tears, to cast me out in\\nthe end, as by a sudden freshet, on these ultimate islands.\\nAnd I admire and bow my head before the strange romance of\\ndestiny.\\nPage 44, line 2. his late Majesty s. George the Third s.\\n1.18. soliciting. That is, advocating.\\nPage 46, line 25. Doctor s Commons. So called because the\\nDoctors of Civil Law dined here together four days in each\\nterm. In De Quincey s time it also included a registry of\\nwills. See Dickens, David Copperfield^ for a description of\\nDoctors Commons.\\nPage 47, line 2. Thomas Quincey. It was our author s\\nmother who added the de to the family name.\\n11. 12 and 15. materialiter formaliter. That is, he humor-\\nously explains that he found himself considered as a material\\nobject, counterfeiting himself considered as an object of thought,\\nor idea.\\nPage 51, line 24. the fine fluent motion. The Bristol\\nMail is the best appointed in the kingdom, owing to the double\\nadvantage of an unusually good road, and of an extra sum for", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "180 NOTES [Page 51\\nthe expences subscribed by the Bristol merchants. De Quin-\\ncey^s note. For a description of the fine fluent motion of\\nthe Mail Coach, and the dreams based on it, see De Quincey s\\nThe English Mail Coach.\\nPage 52, line 13. infinite varieties. Compare Shake-\\nspeare s her infinite variety, Antony and Cleopatra., II., ii.,\\n250.\\nPage 54, line 18. prettily expressed by a Roman poet.\\nCantabit vacuus coram latrone viator. Juvenal, Satire\\nX., 22. The traveller with emj)ty pockets vv^ill sing in the\\nface of the robber. Translated by Chaucer:\\nThe poure man, whan he goth by the weye,\\nBefore the theves he may synge and playe.\\nWife of Bath s Tale, 337-338.\\nPage 55, line 7. Lord of my learning, etc. Adapted from\\nShakespeare Lord of thy presence and no land beside.\\nKing John, I., i., 137.\\nPage 56, lines 2-4. To slacken virtue, etc. Adapted from\\nMilton\\nTo slacken virtue and abate her edge\\nThan prompt her to do aught may merit praise.\\nParadise Regained, II., 455-456.\\nPage 57, line 3. eight o clook. The original text has. a\\ncomma after eight., evidently a misprint.\\n1. 4. Pete s. Joseph Pote (I703P-I787) kept a boarding-\\nhouse for the Etonians, and was an editor and publisher as well.\\nThe business was continued by his son.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "Page 58] NOTES 181\\n1. 9. Ibi omnis effusus labor\\nIbi omnis\\neffusus labor atque immitis rupta tyranni\\nfoedera terque fragor staguis auditus Averni.\\nThere all his toil was spilt, and the treaty broken with that\\nmerciless monarch and thrice a thunder pealed over the\\npools of Avernus. Virgil, Georgics, IV., 491-493 (Mackail s\\nTranslation). From the affecting story of Orpheus and Euryd-\\nice, as told by Virgil.\\nPage 58, line 3. himself, anonymously, an author. His\\nbook is entitled A Short Tour in the Midland Counties of\\nEngland, performed in the Summer of 1772 together unth an\\nAccount of a Similar Excursion undert-aken September, 1772.\\nPublished in 1775. Though in the form of brief, business-\\nlike notes, the performance is altogether very creditable.\\nMasson.\\n1. 12. her letters. Compare his general statement with\\nregard to the purity of female English Would you desire at\\nthis day to read our noble language in its native beauty, pic-\\nturesque from idiomatic propriety, racy in its phraseology,\\ndelicate yet sinewy in its composition, steal the mail-bags, and\\nbreak open all the letters in female handwriting. Essay on\\nStyle, Works, X., p. 145.\\n1. 16. M. W. Montague. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu\\n(1689-1762). It was her habit to write copiously to\\nfriends at home, and when a selection from these letters was\\npublished, in 1763, Lady Mary was recognized as having been\\nthe wittiest of English letter-writers. Gosse, History of\\nEighteenth Century Literature, p. 205.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "182 NOTES [Page 59\\nPage 59, line 1. good man s table. Probably an adaptation\\nof -If ever sat at any good man s feast. Shakespeare,\\nAs You Like It, II., vii., 115.\\n1. 8. The story about Otway. Thomas Otway (1625-1685).\\nDramatist, author of The Orphan and Venice Preserved. The\\nincident referred to by De Quincey is mentioned by an early\\nbiographer, who says that one day Otway sallied forth from\\nan obscure public-house, and begged a shilling from a gentle-\\nman in a coffee-house, saying, I am the poet, Otway. This\\nperson, surprised and distressed, gave him a guinea. With\\nit he bought a roll of bread, and began to devour it with\\nthe rage of hunger; but, incapable of swallowing it from\\nlong abstinence, he was choked with the first mouthful.\\nRoDEN Noel.\\nPage 61, line 16. Saracen s head. De Quincey has in mind\\nthe representations of bronzed and beturbaned Saracens heads,\\noften painted as signs over inn doors.\\nPage 64, line 11. Magdalen. See St. Luke vii. 36-50.\\n1. 14. the ruin they had begun. At this point the portion\\nprinted in the September number of the London Magazine\\nends. An editorial note says, The remainder of this very\\ninteresting Article will be given in the next number.\\nPage QQ, line 21. the road North Grasmere.\\nWordsworth was then living at Grasmere. De Quincey had\\nonce actually gone to Westmoreland to call on Wordsworth,\\nbut an overwhelming shyness and reverence caused him to turn\\nback when he was at the very door.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "Pagi. (i7] NOTES 183\\n1. 22. wings of a dove. And I said, Oh that I had wings\\nlike a dove for then would I fly aw^ay, and be at rest.\\nPs. Iv. 6.\\nPage 67, line 1. that very house. In 1821 De Quincey was\\nliving in Dove Cottage, in which Wordsworth lived in 1803.\\n1.9. blessed balm. 0tXoj virvov 6e\\\\yr)Tpov iiTLKOvpov voa-ov/^\\nDe Quinceifs Note. In this paragraph there are many echoes\\nof Euripides Orestes. This line opens a scene closely resembling\\nthe one before us. (For the explanation of the situation, see\\nnote to p. 68, 1. 16.)\\nOrestes. O balmy sleep, the sick man s comforter,\\nTimely and sweet thy coming was, blest power,\\nThat timely steeps pain in forgetfulness\\nAnd art misfortune s kindest deity,\\nHow came I here What brought me to this place\\nMy mind, distraught, remembers not the past.\\nElectra. How glad was I, dearest, to see thee sleep.\\nShall I take hold of thee, and lift thee up?\\nOrestes. Yes, yes, and wipe from my unhappy mouth\\nAnd from my eyes the clotted gouts of foam.\\nElectra. Sweet is the labour. Never shall I tire\\nOf rendering thee a sister s offices.\\n{He is seized with another fit of madness. He recovers,\\nand speaks.]\\nOrestes. After the storm again behold a calm.\\nListen, why dost thou veil thy head and weep?\\nI blush to make thee partner in my woes\\nAnd trouble with my sickness thy young soul.\\nTranslated by Goldivin Smith.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "184 NOTES [Page 67\\n1. 18. Eumenides. The name Eumenides signifies the well-\\nmeaning goddesses, and is a euphemism for the real name\\nFuries, because the Greeks dreaded to call the fearful god-\\ndesses by their real name.\\n1. 23. Margaret. Margaret Simpson, who became his wife\\nin 1816.\\nPage 68, line 3. servile ministrations. ^5u dovXevfia.\\nEuRip. Orest. De Quinceifs Note. Translated sweet is the\\nlabour in the quotation from the Orestes in the note to p. 67,\\n1. 9.\\n1. 10. sleep no more\\nMacbeth. Me thought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more\\nMacbeth doth murder sleep, the innocent sleep,\\nSleep that knits up the ravell d sleave of care,\\nThe death of each day s life, sore labour s bath,\\nBalm of hurt minds, great nature s second course,\\nChief nourisher in life s feast,\\nLady Macbeth. What do you mean\\nMacbeth. Still it cried, Sleep no more to all the house\\nGlamis hath murder d sleep, and therefore Cawdor\\nShall sleep no more Macbeth shall sleep no more.\\nShakespeare, Macbeth, II., ii., 35-43.\\n1.15. kingofmen. ava^avdpujv AyafieiJividv. De Quincey^s\\nNote. One of the many epithets Homer applies to Agamemnon.\\n1. 16. hid her face in her robe. ofxixa deiahau} irewXojv.\\nThe scholar will know that throughout this passage I refer to\\nthe early scenes of the Orestes one of the most beautiful exhi-\\nbitions of the domestic affections which even the dramas of Eurip-\\nides can furnish. To the English reader, it may be necessary", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "Page 72] NOTES 185\\nto say, that the situation at the opening of the drama is that of\\na brother attended only by his sister during the demoniacal pos-\\nsession of a suffering conscience (or, in the mythology of the\\nplay, haunted by the Furies), and in circumstances of immedi-\\nate danger from enemies, and of desertion or cold regard from\\nnominal friends. De Quincei/s Note. This expression is\\ntranslated in a quotation in the note to p. 67, 1. 9 Why\\ndost thou veil thy head\\nPage 71, line 7. the stately Pantheon.\\nNear the stately Pantheon you ll meet with the same\\nIn the street that from Oxford hath borrowed its name.\\nWordsworth, Power of Music, 3-4.\\nThe Pantheon has successively been a concert-room, a\\ntheatre, and a bazaar, and is now the extensive wine warehouse\\nof the Messrs. Gibley. Bcedekefs London (1885).\\nPage 72, line 4. evanesced. Evanesced this way of going\\noff the stage of life appears to have been well known in the 17th\\ncentury, but at that time to have been considered a peculiar\\nprivilege of blood-royal, and by no means to be allowed to drug-\\ngists. For about the year 1686 a poet of rather ominous name\\n(and who, by the by, did ample justice to his name), viz,, Mr.\\nFlat-man^ in speaking of the death of Charles II. expresses his\\nsurprise that any prince should commit so absurd an act as\\ndying because, says he, Kings should disdain to die, and only\\ndisappear. They should abscond, that is, into the other\\nworld. De Quincey s Note. Thomas Flatman (1687-1688)\\npublished in 1685 a Pindariqiie Ode on the Death of King\\nCharles II. Huktek.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "186 NOTES [Page 72\\n1. 20. apfxaKov vTrjircvGcs.\\ndvTLK dp eis oivov jSdXe (pdp/xaKov, evOev einvov\\nvTiirevd^s T dxo\\\\6v re, KaKuiv iiriXridop dTrdvTiov.\\nHomer, Odyssey, IV., 220-221.\\nPresently she cast a drug into the wine whereof they drank,\\na drug to lull all pain and anger, and bring forgetfulness of every\\nsorrow. See Milton, Comus, 675, for Nepenthes.\\nPage 73, lines 7-8. I Allegro II Penseroso. The com-\\npanion poems of Milton, representing the moods of light cheer-\\nfulness and thoughtful melancholy, respectively.\\n1. 25. ex cathedra. Literally, from the chair, i.e. with\\nauthority.\\nPage 74, line 17. die. Of this, however, the learned appear\\nlatterly to have doubted for in a pirated edition of Buchan s\\nDomestic Medicine, which I once saw in the hands of a farmer s\\nwife who was studying it for the benefit of her health, the\\nDoctor was made to say Be particularly careful never to take\\nabove five-and-twenty ounces of laudanum at once the true\\nreading being probably five-and-twenty drops, which are held\\nequal to about one grain of crude opium. De Quincey s\\nNote.\\nPage 75, line 3. meo periculo. At my risk.\\nPage 77, line G. ponderibus librata suis. Poised by its\\nown weight. Ovid, Metamorphoses, I., 13.\\n1. 11. Athenaeus. A Greek scholar who lived in the second\\nand third centuries a. d. He wrote AeLTrvoao(f)isT at (Banquet\\nof the Learned) in fifteen books. It ranges over numberless", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "Pagk 78] NOTES 187\\nsubjects connected with domestic and social life, manners and cus-\\ntoms, trade, art, and science. Harper s Classical Dictionary.\\nPage 78, line 9. unscientific authors. Amongst the great\\nherd of travellers, c. who show sufficiently by their stupidity\\nthat they never held any intercourse with opium I must caution\\nray readers specially against the brilliant author of \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Anasta-\\nsius. This gentleman, whose wit would lead one to presume\\nhim an opium-eater, has made it impossible to consider him in\\nthat character from the grievous misrepresentation which he\\ngives of its effects, at p. 215-17, of vol, 1. Upon consideration,\\nit must appear such to the author himself for, waiving the\\nerrors I have insisted on in the text, which (and others) are\\nadopted in the fullest manner, he will himself admit, that an old\\ngentleman with a snow-white beard, who eats ample doses\\nof opium, and is yet able to deliver what is meant and received\\nas very weighty counsel on the bad effects of that practice, is\\nbut an indifferent evidence that opium either kills people pre-\\nmaturely, or sends them into a madhouse. But, for my part, I\\nsee into this old gentleman and his motives the fact is, he was\\nenamoured of the little golden receptacle of the pernicious\\ndrug which Anastasius carried about him and no way of ob-\\ntaining it so safe and so feasible occurred, as that of frightening\\nits owner out of his wits (which, by the bye, are none of the\\nstrongest). This commentary throws a new light upon the\\ncase, and greatly improves it as a story for the old gentleman s\\nspeech, considered as a lecture on pharmacy, is highly absurd\\nbut, considered as a hoax on Anastasius, it reads excellently.\\nDe Qiiiucey s Note.\\nAnastasius or, Memoirs of a Greek, Written at the Close", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "188 NOTES [Page 78\\nof the Eighteenth Century. (Published 1819.) By Thomas\\nHope (1770 ?-1831). A marvel of erudition, eloquence, and\\nprofound insight into human character. Lord Byron was\\nsingled out as the only living writer equal to the performance,\\nwhich is said to have flattered the poet s pride. In lan-\\nguage notable for acute characterization and bold imagery the\\nauthor presents a faithful picture of Turkish history and civil-\\nization, interweaving its weeds and flowers, its hates and loves,\\nits license and fanaticism, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XL., pp.\\n97-99.\\nIt is sufficient to say of this novel that some critics,\\nincluding Baron Bunsen, praise it as of deeper ethical import\\nthan any of Scott s. Daviu Masson, British Novelists and\\ntheir Styles (1859).\\n1. 23. prima facie. At first view or appearance.\\nPage 81, line 1. With respect to the torpor, etc. But see\\nRudyard Kipling s story, llie Gate of the Hundred Soitoios,\\nfor a picture of the torpor.\\n1. 12. exhibition. The act of administering a remedy.\\nPage 82, line 19. Grassini. Josephina Grassini (1773-1850),\\na favorite contralto in London from 1803 to 1806.\\nPage 83, lines 10-11. Andromache Hector. Probably\\nin Cimarosa s opera, Achilles at the Siege of Troy (1798). At\\nany rate she sang Cimarosa during her visits to London.\\n1. 19. the fine extravaganza Twelfth Night.\\nIf music be the food of love, play on\\nGive me excess of it, that, surfeiting.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "Page 85] NOTES 189\\nThe appetite may sicken, and so die.\\nThat sti-ain again It had a dying fall\\nO, it came o er my ear like the sweet sound,\\nThat breathes upon a bank of violets,\\nStealing and giving odour. I., i., 1-7.\\n1. 22. a passage in the Religio Medici. Whosoever is\\nharmonically composed delights in harmony which makes me\\nmuch distrust the symmetry of those heads which disclaim\\nagainst all Church-Musick. For myself, not only from my\\nobedience, but my particular Genius, I do embrace it for even\\nthat vulgar and Tavern-Musick, which makes one man merry,\\nanother mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a pro-\\nfound contemplation of the First Composer. There is some-\\nthing in it of Divinity more than the ear discovers: it is an\\nHieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole World, and\\ncreatures of GOD such a melody to the ear, as the whole World,\\nwell understood, would afford the understanding. In brief, it\\nis a sensible fit of that harmony which intellectually sounds in\\nthe ears of God. Part II., 9.\\nSir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) published the Beligio\\nMedici in 1642.\\nFor a similar interpretation of music see Plato, JRepublic,\\n401 Browning, A Toccata of GaluppVs and Abt Vogler and\\nDu Maurier, The Martian^ Part V.\\nPages 84-85, lines 19-2. But this is a subject sub-\\nlimed. Compare D. G. Rossetti, The Monochord.\\nPage 85, line 9. Weld the traveller. Isaac Weld, Travels\\nthrough the United States and Canada^ 1799. The passage\\nis as follows The women, on the contrary, speak with the", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "190 NOTES [Page H5\\nutmost ease, and the language, as pronounced by them, appears\\nas soft as Italian. They have, without exception, the most\\ndelicate harmonious voices I have ever heard, and the most\\npleasing gentle laugh that it is possible to conceive. I have\\noftentimes sat amongst a group of them for an hour or two\\ntogether, merely for the pleasure of listening to their conversa-\\ntion, on account of its wonderful softness and delicacy.\\nQuoted by GarneU.\\n1. 23. Marinus Proclus. Marinus was pupil and biog-\\nrapher of Proclus. Pjroclus was born a.d. 412, at Byzantium.\\nHe became head of the Platonic school, and directed his efforts\\ntowards opposing the Platonic philosophy to the encroachments\\nof Christianity. He died in 484.\\nPage 86, line 3. labours that I rested from. See Revelation\\nxiv. 13.\\nPage 88, line 9. soot. On enquiry I found that soot (chiefly\\nfrom wood and peats) was useful in some stage of their wax or\\nhoney manufacture. De Qidnce^fs Note.\\n1.24. terrae incognitae. Unknown lands.\\nPage 90, line 2. cave of Trophonius. Trophonius was a\\nfamous Greek oracle. Since those who descended into the\\ncave at Labdea to consult the oracle of Trophonius were noticed\\nto return dejected and melancholy, the proverb arose which was\\napplied to a low-spirited person He has been consulting the\\noracle of Trophonius. Gayley, Classic Myths.\\n1. 17. mysticism. The doctrine that man may attain truth", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "Page 91] NOTES 191\\ndirectly, by intuition. This doctrine has become familiarized\\nto readers of English literature by Coleridge and Carlyle.\\n1. 17. Behmenism. Jakob Boehme (Behmen is the usual\\nEnglish variant form of the name), 1575-1624. A German\\nmystical writer.\\n1. 18. quietism. The doctrine that the soul attains perfect\\nspiritual exaltation by withdrawing from outward activities and\\nengaging in mystic contemplation.\\n1. 18, Sir H. Vane, the younger. Sir Henry Vane, born\\n1613; opposed Laud emigrated to Massachusetts, of which he\\nbecame governor in 1636 returned to England, and was exe-\\ncuted 1662.\\nPage 91, line 6. the tumult, the fever, and the strife. For\\nthe rhythm compare The weariness, the fever, and the fret.\\nKeats, Ode to a Nightingale^ st. 3.\\n1. 8. resting from human labours. That they may rest\\nfrom their labours and their works do follow them. Beve-\\nlation xiv. 13.\\n1. 16. Oh just opium etc. Imitative of Sir Walter\\nRaleigh s famous apostrophe to Death eloquent, just, and\\nmighty Death whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded\\nwhat none hath dared, thou hast done and whom all the world\\nhath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised\\nthou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the\\npride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it over with\\nthese two narrow words, Hie jacet History of the World.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "192 NOTES [Page 91\\n1. 18. pangs that tempt the spirit, etc.\\nAnd pangs that tempt the spirit to rebel.\\nWordsworth, White Doe of Rylstone (Dedication).\\n1. 25. Wrongs unredress d, etc. Wordsworth, The Excur-\\nsion, Bk. III.\\nPage 92, line 6. Phidias. The greatest Greek sculptor (b.c.\\n490-432). His great works are the Parthenon at Athens and\\nthe Olympian Zeus.\\n1. 7. Praxiteles. Another famous Greek sculptor, born\\nabout B.C. 390.\\n1.8. Hekat6mpylos, le. the hundred-gated (from iKardv,\\nhekaton, a hundred, and 7r6\\\\rj, pyle, a gate). This epithet of\\nhundred-gated was applied to the Egyptian Thebes in contra-\\ndistinction to the eTrrdirvXos (heptapylos, or seven-gated) which\\ndesignated the Grecian Thebes, within one day s journey of\\nAthens. De Qiimcey^s Note.\\n1. 8. from the anarchy of dreaming sleep. From Words-\\nworth, The Excursion, Bk. IV.\\n1. 11. dishonours of the grave. 1 Corinthians xv. 43 It is\\nsown in dishonour it is raised in glory. In the Lesson in the\\nOrder for the Burial of the Dead of the Church of England.\\nPage 93, line 5, Bodleian. The famous library at Oxford,\\nfounded by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1602.\\n1. 21. Greek epigrams. See note to p. 13, 1. 6.\\nPage 94, lines 16-17. Kant, Fichte, Schelling. Immanuel\\nKant (1724-1804), founder of the critical philosophy. Johann", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "Page 99] NOTES 193\\nGottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) and Friedricli Wilhelm Joseph\\nvon Schelling (1775-1854) were disciples of Kant, though they\\ndeveloped his philosophy in directions little approved of by him.\\n1. 21. Honi soit, etc. Shame to him v^^ho evil thinks.\\nThe motto of Great Britain.\\nPage 95, line 10. X. Y. Z. De Quincey s pen-name in the\\nLondon Magazine.\\n1. 11. Gustos Rotulorum. The keeper of the records of the\\nsessions of a county.\\nPage 96, line 5. Anastasius. See note to p. 78, 1. 9.\\n1, 24. distress of mind event. The death of little\\nKate Wordsworth. See Works, II., 440-445.\\nPage 97, line 6. appalling irritation of the stomach. For a\\nmedical view of this, see note to p. 10, 1. 19.\\nPage 98, line 16. force d ennuyer. By dint of boring.\\n1. 17. pandiculation. Humorous use of pedantic terms.\\nPage 99, line 7. Eudaemonist. One who makes the pursuit\\nof enjoyment and the production of happiness his chief aim.\\n1. 14. Stoic philosophy. A handsome news-room, of\\nwhich I was very politely made free in passing through Man-\\nchester by several gentlemen of that place, is called, I think,\\nThe Porch whence I, who am a stranger in Manchester, in-\\nferred that the subscribers meant to profess themselves fol-\\nlowers of Zeno. But I have been since assured that this is a\\nmistake. De Qiiincey s Note,\\no", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "194 NOTES [Page 99\\nThe Stoic school was founded by Zeno of Citiuin, a.d. 410.\\nThe school was so called because Zeno held his school in the\\nStoa, or Porch. The system was ascetic, teaching perfect in-\\ndifference to everything external, for nothing external could be\\ngood or evil.\\n1. 15. Eclectic. One who selects his philosophy from all\\nsystems.\\n1. 18. sweet men, etc.\\nFul swetely herde he confessioun,\\nAnd plesaunt was his absolucioun.\\nChaucer, Prologue to Canterbury Tales, 221-222.\\nPage 100, line 18. snow-white beard. See note to p. 78,\\n1. 9.\\nPage 102, line 11. wx^^K-cpov. A day and a night.\\n1. 14. That moveth altogether, etc. Wordsworth, Beso-\\nlution and Independence, st. 11. The proper reading is all\\ntogether.\\nPage 103, line 20. impassable gulph fixed. See Luke xvi, 26.\\nPage 105, line 12. Adelung s Mithridates. Johann Chris-\\ntoph Adelung (1732-180G), a German philologist, and librarian\\nat Dresden, The book referred to is entitled 3IUhridates oder\\nallgemeines Sprachlmnde.\\nPage 107, Ihie 1. a-muck. See the common accounts in\\nany Eastern traveller or voyager of the frantic excesses com-\\nmitted by Malays who have taken opium, or are reduced to\\ndesperation by ill luck at gambling. De Quincey s Note.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "Page 112J NOTES 195\\nPage 108, line 16. a cottage with a double coach-house.\\nHe passed a cottage with a double coach-house,\\nA cottage of gentility\\nAnd he owned with a grin\\nThat his favourite sin\\nIs pride that apes humility.\\nSouTHEY, The Devil s Walk, st. 8.\\nAn almost identical verse (dictated by Southey) occurs in Cole-\\nridge s The DeviVs Thoughts.\\nPage 109, lines 12-15. And at the doors hall. Adapted\\nfrom James Thomson (1700-1748), Castle of Indolence, st. 43,\\n5-9.\\n1. 24. Mr. Clarkson. Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846), a\\nprominent English antislavery agitator.\\nPage 110, line 13. St. Thomas s day. December 21.\\n1. 25. bellum internecinum. War to the death. Cicero\\n(B.C. 106-43), Philippic Orations, 14, 3, 7.\\nPage 111, line 1. Jonas Hanway (1712-1786), tourist,\\nphilanthropist, and author, and said to have been the first\\nman who ventured to walk the streets of London with an um-\\nbrella over his head, was a violent opponent of tea, and got\\ninto conflict with Dr. Johnson on the subject. Masson.\\n1. 13. a double debt to pay.\\nThe chest contrived a double debt to pay,\\nA bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.\\nGoldsmith, Deserted Village, 229-230.\\nPage 112, line 3. k parte ante, from the part (of dura-", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "19() NOTES [Page 112\\ntion) before a given time a parte post, from the part (of\\nduration) after a given time. Hence the two expressions mean\\neternal vv^ithout beginning or end.\\nI. 8. Aurora, the goddess of morning Homer s rosy-fin-\\ngered Dawn. Hebe, the goddess of eternal youth.\\nPage 113, line 22. the ten categories. Aristotle s ten cate-\\ngories, or predicaments, viz. substance, quantity, quality,\\nrelation, place, time, posture, habit (or dress), action, passion.\\nPage 114, line 5. But now farewell, etc. Farewell! a\\nlong farewell, to all my greatness! Henry VIII., III.,\\nii., 351.\\nII. 6-7. Farewell to smiles and laughter\\nFarewell to peace of mind\\nSwinburne s poems. Before Dawn and The Garden of Proser-\\npine, as well as Keats s In a Drear-nighted December, are\\ncomposed of these two rhythms.\\n1. 11. Iliad of woes. Translation of a phrase in Cicero,\\nEpistulcz ad Atticum, 8, 11, 3. Malorum IXids.\\n1. 12. as when some great painter dips, etc. Percy\\nBysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Revolt of Islam, Canto V.,\\nSt. 23.\\nPage 117, line 16. in medias res. Into the middle of the\\nmatter. From Horace (b.c. 65-8) Art of Poetry, 148.\\nPage 118, line 6. John Kemble (1757-1823), one of the\\ngreatest Shakespearean actors.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "Page 121] NOTES 197\\n1. 7. Mrs. Siddons. Sarah Siddoiis (1755-1881), one of the\\nmost celebrated of Shakespearean actresses.\\n1. 11. overstep the modesty of nature. Shakespeare,\\nHamlet, III., ii.\\n1. 13. grand lamentations of Samson Agonistes. See, for\\ninstance, the opening speech, 11. 1-114.\\n1. 14. great harmonies of the Satanic speeches in Paradise\\nRegained. See, for example, that speech beginning, Tistrue,\\nlam that Spirit unfortunate, Bk. II., 358-405; and also Bk.\\nIV., 44-108, 195-284.\\n1. 16. a young lady. Doubtless, Dorothy Wordsworth.\\nPage 119, line 16. Spinosa. Baruch de Spinosa (16.32-1677),\\ncue of the greatest European philosophers.\\n1.18. Spanish bridge. Probably an adaptation of the famil-\\niar castles in Spain.\\nPage 121, line 7. Mr. Ricardo. See note to p. 9, 1. 16.\\n1. 10. Thou art the man And Nathan said to David,\\nThou art the man 2 Samuel xii. 7.\\n1. 17. thinking. The reader must remember what I here\\nmean by thinJcing because, else this would be a very presump-\\ntuous expression. England, of late, has been rich to excess in\\nfine thinkers, in the departments of creative and combining\\nthought but there is a sad dearth of masculine thinkers in any\\nanalytic path. A Scotchman of eminent name has lately told\\nus, that he is obliged to quit even mathematics, for want of\\nencouragement. De Quinceifs Note.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "198 NOTES [Page 121\\n1. 19. mercantile and senatorial cares. Kicardo was a mem-\\nber of the Stock Exchange and a member of Parliament.\\n1. 24. deduced a priori. That is, deduced from the laws of\\nthe mind.\\nPage 122, line 11. the inevitable eye. Possibly a reminis-\\ncence of Gray s inevitable hour in The Elegy 1. 35.\\nPage 123, line 15. Circean spells. Circe, according to\\nHomer (Iliad, X., 135 ff.), dwelt in the island of ^Etea, attended\\nby four nymphs, and all who approached her dwelling were\\nfeasted, and then, by means of her magic cup, transformed into\\nbeasts.\\nPage 125, line 15, I can tell them, etc. The reference is to\\nSt. Luke vii. 8. Compare St. Matthew viii. 9.\\n1. 23. friezes of never-ending stories. It was the custom of\\nthe Greeks to carve representations of stories on their temples.\\nThe frieze of the Parthenon at Athens represented, not a\\nstory, but the Panathenaic procession. The stories were on\\nthe pediments but other temples undoubtedly had stories on\\nthe friezes, for instance, the temple of Pergamos.\\n1. 25. before (Edipus Memphis. (Edipus was king of\\nThebes Priam was king of Troy Tyre, one of the greatest and\\nmost famous cities of the ancient world, was the metropolis of\\nPhoenicia Memphis was a great city of Egypt, and became its\\ncapital after the fall of Thebes.\\nPage 128, line 5. near relative. Mrs. Baird Smith told Dr.\\nGarnett that this was De Quincey s mother,\\n1. 16. the dread book of account. Bevelation xx. 12.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "Page 13i NOTES 199\\nPage 129, line 1. common light of day. Wordsworth,\\nOde on the Intimations of Immortal it y, V. also To the High-\\nland Girl, 16-17 light of common day.\\n1. 13. Livy. Titus Livius (b.o. 59-a.d. 17) wrote a history of\\nRome in one hundred and forty-two books, the most famous\\nRoman history.\\nPage 130, line 16. a certain day. August 22, the day on\\nwhich the royal standard was raised at Nottingham.\\n11, 18-19. Marston Moor, etc. 3Iarston Moor, July 12, 1644\\nNewbury, October 16, 1644 Nasehy, June 14, 1645.\\nPage 131, line 2. sweeping by. In sceptered pall come\\nsweeping by. Milton, II Fenseroso,:9S.\\n1. 3. Paulus or Marius. Lucius Paulus, surnamed Mace-\\ndonicus, born about b.c. 230. Conqueror of Macedonia. His\\ntriumphal entry into Rome was the most splendid in Roman\\nhistory (b.c. 167). Gains Marius, born b.c. 157, and frequently\\nconsul at Rom e. He waged a triumphant war against the German\\nhordes, and he was hailed as the saviour of his country. Both\\nare names associated with the pomp of war, hence the reference.\\n1. 5. alalagmos. A word expressing collectively the\\ngathering of the Roman war cries Alala, Alala Masson.\\nGreek, d\\\\a\\\\ay/x6s, a loud noise.\\n1. 6. Piranesi. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), an\\nItalian architect and engraver. Garnett says that he never pub-\\nlished any plates under the title Dreams.\\nPage 132, line 13. a great modern poet passage. The\\npassage cited is from Wordsworth, The Excursion, Bk. II.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "200 NOTES [Page 133\\nPage 133, line 12. Dryden. John Dryclcn (1631-1700), the\\nfamous eighteenth-century satirist, dramatist, and narrative\\npoet.\\n1. 13. Fuseli. Henry Fuseli (1741-1825), a Swiss painter\\nof historical subjects. He lived in England.\\n1. 18. Shadwell. Thomas Shadwell (1642P-1692), was the\\nauthor of several dramas, and was satirized by Dryden in\\nMacjlecknoe.\\n1. 18. Homer is reputed, etc. On the strength of the lines\\nquoted in the note to p. 72, 1. 20.\\nPage 134, line 4. the last Lord Orford. Better known as\\nHorace Walpole (1717-1797), author of The Castle of Otranto,\\n(1746) and Letters.\\n1. 9. though. The original text reads thought a manifest\\nmisprint.\\nPage 135, line 11. The causes of my horror, etc. Compare\\nR. L. Stevenson, Across the Plains (Besjnsed Baces).\\nPage 136, line 11. officina gentium. Workshop of the\\nnations.\\nPage 137, lines 12-13. Brama Vishnu Seeva. The\\ncreative energy, the preserving power, and the destructive power,\\nrespectively, of the Brah manic religion.\\n1. 14. Isis and Osiris. In the Egyptian religion Isis is the\\nwife and feminine counterpart of Osiris, who is the good prin-\\nciple^ identified with the vivifying power of the sun and of the\\nwaters of the Nile.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "Page 141] NOTES 201\\nPage 139, line 14. caeteris paribus. Other things being\\nequal.\\nPage 141, line 11. a child whom I had tenderly loved.\\nLittle Kate Wordsworth.\\n1. 17. first fruits of resurrection. From 1 Corinthians xv.\\n20, a verse which occurs both in the Easter Anthem and in the\\nLesson in the Order for the Burial of the Dead of the Church\\nof England Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become\\nthe first-fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death,\\nby man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam\\nall die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man\\nin his own order Christ the first-fruits afterwards they that\\nare Christ s at his coming.\\n1. 18. I will walk abroad unhappy no longer. Com-\\npare Tennyson, In 3Iemoriam^ LXXXVI\\nSweet after showers, ambrosial air,\\nThat rollest from the gorgeous gloom\\nOf evening over break and bloom\\nAnd meadow, slowly breathing bare\\nThe round of space, and wrapt below\\nThro all the dewy-tassell d wood,\\nAnd shadowing down the horned tiood\\nIn ripples, fan my brows and blow\\nThe fever from my cheek, and sigh\\nThe full new life that feeds thy breath\\nThroughout my frame, till Doubt and Death,\\n111 brethren, let the fancy fly", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "202 NOTES [Page 141\\nFrom belt to belt of crimson seas\\nOn leagnes of odour streaming far,\\nTo where in yonder orient star\\nA hundred spirits whisper Peace.\\nPage 142, line 0. shaded by Judean palms. Suggested by a\\nfigure seen on Roman coins. Works^ I., 64.\\n1. 18. the tears were now wiped away. And God shall\\nwipe away all tears from their eyes. Bevelation vii. 17,\\nand xxi. 4. See also Isaiah xxv. 8.\\nPage 143, line 6. final specimen. With this final speci-\\nmen compare Dream Fugue,, in The English Mail Coach,\\nSees. iv. and v.\\n1. 11. Coronation Anthem. The Coronation Anthem was\\nwritten in 1727, by George Frederick Handel (1685-1759), for\\nperformance at the coronation ceremony of George II., in West-\\nminster Abbey, October 11, 1727.\\nPage 144, line 4. Deeper than ever plummet sounded. I ll\\nseek him deeper than e er plummet sounded. Shakespeare,\\nTempest, III., iii., 101.\\n1. 16. and with a sigh death. The reference is to\\nthe speech of Sin, an incestuous mother, because she, the\\ndaughter of Satan, bore to him Death, and because to Death\\nshe also bore yelling monsters. Milton, Paradise Lost,\\nII., 648-814.\\nI fled and cried out Death\\nHell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed\\nFrom all her caves, and back resounded Death\\n11. 787-789.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "Page 158] NOTES 203\\n1. 22. I will sleep no more. See note to p. 68, 1. 10.\\nPage 147, line 15. a most innocent sufferer. William\\nLithgovv (1582-1645 His book (Travels, c.) is ill and\\npedantically writte]i but the account of his own sufferings\\non the rack at Malaga is overpoweringly affecting. Be\\nQuincetfs Note. The title is The Totall Discourse of the Bare\\nAdueutures and painfull Peregrinations of long Nineteene\\nYeares (1632).\\nPage 148, line 16. Lord Bacon conjectures. Essay o n Death\\nIt is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant\\nperhaps the one is as painful as the other. De Quincey^s\\nNote (ed. 1856). The text of the London 3Iagazine reads\\nJeremy Taylor.\\nPage 149, line 9. With dreadful faces, etc. Milton, Para-\\ndise Lost, XII., 644.\\nPage 151, lines 1-13. The interest extraordinary his-\\ntory. These lines are an editorial note in the London 3Iagazine,\\nexplaining the Appendix. See Editor s Introduction to the\\npresent edition.\\nPage 153, line 14. fiat experimentum, etc. Let the experi-\\nment be made upon a worthless object.\\nPage 158, line 2. Beaumont and Fletcher. Francis Beau-\\nmont (1584-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625) wrote dramas\\nin conjunction. Thierry and Theodoret was printed in 1621.\\nThe passage referred to is as follows", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "204 NOTES [Page 158\\n(Thierry is brought in on a couch, with Doctors and\\nAttendants.)\\nThierry. Tell me,\\nCan ever these eyes more, shut up in slumbers,\\nAssure my soul there is sleep is there night\\nAnd rest for human labours? do not you\\nAnd all the world, as I do, out-stare Time,\\nAnd live, like funeral lami s, never extinguished?\\nIs there a grave (and do not flatter me,\\nNor fear to tell the truth) and in that grave\\nIs there a hope I shall sleep can I die\\nAre not my miseries immortal Oh,\\nThe happiness of him that drinks his water,\\nAfter his weary day, and sleeps forever\\nWhy do you crucify me thus with faces,\\nAnd gaping strangely upon one another!\\nThe eyes of Heaven\\nSee but their certain motions, and then sleep:\\nThe rages of the Ocean have their slumbers\\nAnd quiet silver calms each violence\\nCrowns in his end a peace but my fixed fires\\nShall never, never set! V., ii.\\n1. 9. the old fable. The familiar fairy tale, The Sleeping\\nBeauty in the Wood., which Tennyson has beautifully treated\\nin his Day Dream.\\n1. 15. I nunc, et versus tecum, etc. Go now, and medi-\\ntate harmonious verses. Horace (b.c. 65-8), Epistles., II., ii\\n76. The i nunc is an ironical imperative to do something\\nimpossible or difficult.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "Page 163] NOTES 205\\nPage 160, line 3. infandum renovare dolorem. Infandum,\\nregina, jubes renovare dolorem. O (jueen, thou dost com-\\nmand me to revive an unutterable grief! Virgil (b.c.\\n70-19), uEneicl, II., 3. An excellent example of De Quincey s\\nmany felicitous literary allusions.\\nPage 162, line 12. pretty rapid course of descent. On\\nw^hich last notice I would remark, that mine was too rapid, and\\nthe suffering therefore needlessly aggravated or rather, per-\\nhaps, it was not sufficiently coritinuous and equably graduated.\\nDe Quincey s Note (extract).\\nPage 163, line 4. so rascally a subject. Bascally is a Shake-\\nspearean word, meaning base.\\n1. 9. heautontimoroumenos. Self -tormentor, the name\\nof Terence s play quoted on p. 9, 1. 5.\\nPage 164, line 16. Golgothas. St. Matthew xxvii. 33.\\nPage 165, line 8. Roman prince. Caligula (a.d. 14-41).\\n1. 16. Suetonius. Gains Suetonius Tranquillus, a Roman\\nhistorian and scholar, born about a.d. 70. He wrote Vitoe\\nDuodecim Ccesarum (Lives of the First Twelve Roman Em-\\nperors). The reference is to his life of C. Csesar Caligula,\\n38, where the words vivere perse verarent occur.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "INDEX TO NOTES\\nAchilles at the Siege of Troy, 188.\\nAddington, Mr., 169.\\nAdelung, 194.\\niEschylus, 175.\\na force d ennuyer, 193.\\nalcdagmos, 199.\\nAlcfeus, 176.\\nAlcaics, 176.\\na-muck, 194.\\nAndromache, 188.\\nAnastasius, 187-188, 193.\\nli parte ante, 195-1^)6.\\na parte post, 195-19(3.\\na priori, 198.\\nArchididasculus, 172.\\nAthenaeus, 186.\\nAurora, 196.\\nAwsiter, 169.\\nBacon, Lord, quotation, 203.\\nBaird Smitli, Mrs., 198.\\nBeaumont and Fletclier, quota-\\ntion, 203-204.\\nBehmenism, 191.\\nbpllain internecinum, 195.\\nBible quotation, 1 Corinthians\\nXV. 20 ff., 201.\\n1 Corinthians xv. 43, 192.\\nPsalm Iv. 6, 183.\\nRevelation vii. 17, 202.\\nRevelation xiv. 13, 190, 191.\\nRevelation xxi. 4, 202.\\n2 Samuel xii. 7, 197.\\nreference, Isaiah xxv. 8, 202.\\nLuke vii. 8, 198, 36-50, 182.\\nLuke xvi. 26, 194.\\nMatthew viii. 9, 198.\\nMattheio xxvii. 33, 205.\\nRevelation xx. 12, 198.\\nBlue-beard, 177.\\nBodleian, 192,\\nBrama, 200.\\nBrowne, Sir T., 189.\\nBrowning, R., 189.\\nBuchan s Domestic Medicine, 186.\\nBurke, quotation, 167.\\ncseieris paribus, 201.\\nCaligula, 205.\\nCarbery, Lady, 172.\\nCarlisle, Dean of. (See Miluer,\\nIsaac.)\\ncategories, Aristotle s ten, 196.\\nChaucer, quotation, 180, 194.\\nCicero, quotation, 195, 196.\\nCimarosa, 188.\\n207", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "208\\nINDEX TO NOTES\\nCirce, 198.\\nClarkson, Thomas, 195^.\\nColeridge, S. T., 109, 170, 195.\\nand opium, 107.\\nhis poems and The Confes-\\nsions, 169.\\ncontretems, 174.\\nCoronation Anthem, 202.\\nCromwell, 176.\\nCustos Rotulorum, 193.\\nDash, Mr., the philosopher,\\n168.\\nDeath, Raleigh s apostrophe to,\\n191.\\nA6i7rvocro |)t(rTai, 186-187.\\nDe Quincey, Thomas, Medical\\nview of his case, 171, 193.\\nat Bath School, 171.\\nat Winkfield School, 171.\\nat Manchester School, 171.\\nChronology of the Confes-\\nsions, 177-178.\\nhis father s name, 179.\\nhis father an author, 181.\\nhis mother s letters, 181.\\nmarries Margaret Simpson,\\n184.\\nDickens, reference, 177, 179.\\nDoctor s Commons, 179.\\nDryden, 200.\\nDu Maurier, 189.\\nEatwell, Dr., 171.\\nEcclesiastlcus, quotation, 169.\\nEclectic philosopher, 194.\\nElectra, 18.3-185.\\nepigrams, Greek, 172, 192.\\nErskine, Lord, and opium, 168.\\n^tourderie, 175.\\nEudfemonist, 193.\\nEumenides, 184.\\nEuripides, 175.\\nquotation, 183, 184.\\nreference, 183, 184 bis, 184-\\n185.\\nevanesced, 185.\\nex cathedra, 186.\\nexhibition, 188.\\nfiat experbnentum in corpore vili^\\n203.\\nFichte, 192-193.\\nFlatman, 185.\\nFletcher (see Beaumont).\\nformaliter, 179.\\nfriezes, 198.\\nFuseli, 200.\\nGoethe, 167.\\nGoldsmith, 195.\\nGolgothas, 205.\\nGraces, 171-172.\\nGrassini, 188.\\nGray, reference, 109, 198.\\nHandel, 202.\\nHan way, 195.\\nHazlitt, 170.\\nHeautontlmoroumenos, 170, 205.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "INDEX TO NOTES\\n209\\nHebe, 196.\\nHector, 188.\\nHekatonipylos, 192.\\nHe7inj F77/., quotation, 171, 19G.\\nHomer, and opium, 200,\\nquotation, 186.\\nhoni soil qui mal y pense, 193.\\nHope, Thomas, 188.\\nHorace, quotation, 196, 204.\\nHwnani nihil a se alienuin putat,\\n170.\\n76/ omnis effiisus labor, 181.\\nIliad of woes, 196.\\ninfandiitn renovare dolorem, 205.\\nin medias res, 196.\\ni nunc et versus tecum, etc.,\\n204.\\nIsis, 200.\\nJolmson, Dr., 177, 195.\\nquotation, 172-173.\\nJuvenal, quotation, 180.\\nKant, 192-193.\\nKeats, quotation, 191.\\nreference, 196.\\nKemble, 196.\\nKipling, reference, 188.\\nLawson, Mr., 171, 173.\\nlaying down, 177.\\nLitligow, 203.\\nLivy, 199.\\nMagdalen, 182.\\nMail Coach, The, reference, 180,\\n202.\\nMargaret (Simpson), 184.\\nMariuus, 190.\\nMarius, Gains, 199.\\nmaterialiter, 179.\\nMead, 169.\\nMemphis, 198.\\nmeo pericvlo, 186.\\nMilner, Isaac, 168.\\nMilton, quotation, II Penseroso,\\n199.\\nParadise Lost, 174, 175 his,\\n177, 178, 202, 203.\\nPai adise Regained, 180.\\nreference, Comus, 186.\\nII Penseroso, 186.\\nr Allegro, 186.\\nParadise Lost, 202.\\nParadise Regained, 197.\\nSamson Agonistes, 197.\\nMithridates, 194.\\nMontague, M. W., 181.\\nmore Socratico, 178.\\nMorgan, Mr., 171.\\nmusic, in praise of, 189.\\nmysticism, 190-191.\\n7ioli me tangere, 176.\\nI Vx^Tj/aepoi 194.\\nGEdipus, 198.\\nofficina gentium, 200.\\no i 77 o A A ot 176.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "210\\nINDEX TO NOTES\\nOrforcl, Lord, 200.\\nOsiris, 200.\\nOtway, 182.\\nOvid, quotation, 186.\\npandiculation, 193.\\nPantheon, 185.\\nParnell, 169.\\nPaulus, Lucius, 199.\\nFervlgiliuin Veneris, quotation,\\n169.\\n^ap ixaKov vrinevOe^, 186.\\nPhidias, 192.\\n(jxavapTa avv ero lai, 169.\\nPindar, 169.\\nPiozzi, Mrs., 177.\\nPiranesi, 199.\\nPlato, 189.\\nPote s, 180.\\nponderlhuH llbrata suis, 186.\\nPraxiteles, 192.\\nPriam, 198.\\nprima facie, 188.\\nProclus, 190.\\nquietism, 191.\\nQuincey, Thomas, 179.\\nRaleigh, Sir Walter, quotation,\\n191.\\nrascally, 205.\\nRicardo. 170,.198.\\nRossetti, D. G., reference, 189.\\nRousseau, 167.\\nSt. Thomas Day, 195.\\nSalisbury plain, 174.\\nSapphics, 176.\\nSappho, 176.\\nSaracen s head, 182.\\nSchelling, 192-193.\\nSeeva, 200.\\nSeven Sleepers, The, 174.\\nShadwell, and opium, 200.\\nShakespeare, quotation, Antony\\nand Cleopatra, 180.\\n.4.S You Like It, 182.\\nKing John, 180.\\nMacbeth, 184.\\nTempest, 202.\\nTwelfth Night, 188-189.\\nreference, Hamlet, 197.\\nShelley, quotation, Revolt of Is-\\nlam, 196.\\nTo a Skylark, 174.\\nreference. Revolt of Islam,\\n176.\\nSiddons, 197.\\nsine Cerere et Libero friget Ve-\\nnus, 178.\\nsleep, addresses to, Shakespeare,\\n184.\\nEuripides, 183.\\nBeaumont and Fletcher, 204.\\nSocrates, 178.\\nsoliciting, 179.\\nsoot, honey from, 190.\\nSophocles, 172, 175.\\nSouthey, quotation, 195.\\nSpanish bridge, 197.", "height": "2635", "width": "1783", "jp2-path": "confessionsofeng06dequ_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "INDEX TO NOTES\\n211\\nSpencer, Edward, 171.\\nSpiiiosa, 197.\\nStevenson, R. L., quotation, 178-\\n179.\\nreference, 200.\\nstoic pliilosophy, 193-194.\\nSuetonius, 205.\\nSwinburne, quotation, 176.\\nreference, 196.\\nTartarus, 177.\\nTennyson, quotation, 176, 201.\\nreference, 201.\\nTerence, quotation, 170, 178.\\nreference, 205.\\nterrse incognitse, 190.\\nThebes, 198.\\nThierry and Theodoret, 203.\\nThomson, James, quotation, 195.\\nTrophonius, Cave of, 190.\\nTyre, 198.\\nVane, Sir Henry, 191.\\nVirgil, quotation, Georgics, 181.\\nyEneid, 205.\\nVishnu, 200.\\nWalpole, Horace, 200.\\nWeld, 189.\\nWhitman, Walt, 178.\\nWilberforce, and opium, 168.\\nWilson, John, 171.\\nWordsworth, Dorothy, 197.\\nWordsworth, Kate, 193, 201.\\nWordsworth, William, 175, 183.\\nquotation, Daffodils, 170.\\nExcursion, 192 bis, 199.\\nHighland Girl, 199.\\nImmortality (Ode on), 178,\\n199.\\nPower of Music, 185.\\nResolution and Indepen-\\ndence, 194.\\nShe icas a Phantom, 178.\\nSonnet, Nuns Fret Not,\\n173.\\nWhite Doe of Rijlstone, 167,\\n192.\\nreference, The Prelude, 173.\\nattracts De Quincey to the\\nnorth, 175, 182.\\nX. 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