The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a PythagoreanHarper & Brothers, 1857 - 371 Seiten |
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... never became the victim of any habit in the prosecution of my headlong investi- gations . When the circuit of all the accessible tests was completed , I ceased experimenting , and sat down like a pharmaceutical Alexander , with no more ...
... never became the victim of any habit in the prosecution of my headlong investi- gations . When the circuit of all the accessible tests was completed , I ceased experimenting , and sat down like a pharmaceutical Alexander , with no more ...
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... never immediately deadly , and many millions of people daily employed it as an indulgence similarly to opium . Second , it was the hasheesh referred to by Eastern travelers , and the subject of a most graphic chapter from the pen of ...
... never immediately deadly , and many millions of people daily employed it as an indulgence similarly to opium . Second , it was the hasheesh referred to by Eastern travelers , and the subject of a most graphic chapter from the pen of ...
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... never , till the day I die , forget that face . Every lincament was stamped with the records of a life black with damning crime ; it glared upon me with a ferocious wickedness and a stony despair which only he may feel who is entering ...
... never , till the day I die , forget that face . Every lincament was stamped with the records of a life black with damning crime ; it glared upon me with a ferocious wickedness and a stony despair which only he may feel who is entering ...
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... never could get down ! me down despairingly upon the topmost step . I sat Suddenly a sublime thought possessed me . If the distance be infinite , I am immortal . It shall be tried . I commenced the descent , wearily , wearily down ...
... never could get down ! me down despairingly upon the topmost step . I sat Suddenly a sublime thought possessed me . If the distance be infinite , I am immortal . It shall be tried . I commenced the descent , wearily , wearily down ...
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... never be as long as those thirty seconds . Finally the servant reappeared . I received my powder and went home . There was a light in one of the upper windows , and I hailed it with unspeakable joy , for it relieved me from a fear which ...
... never be as long as those thirty seconds . Finally the servant reappeared . I received my powder and went home . There was a light in one of the upper windows , and I hailed it with unspeakable joy , for it relieved me from a fear which ...
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abandonment agony barathrum beauty began behold body bolus called calm Claude Lorraine colossal delight delirium dose dreadful dreams drug earth ecstasy effect eternal ether Euphorbus existence experience eyes face fact fantasia fascination fear feel felt floated force forever former gaze glory grand grew hallucination hand harmony hasheesh HASHEESH EATER hasheesh-eater heard heart heaven hippopotamus horror hour houris human ical idea ideal indulgence infinite insphered instant intense John Locke journey light living looked memory ment metempsychosis mind mystery nature ness never night once opium pain pangs papillæ passed past perception phenomena possible present preter Pythagoras rapture reached river sake seemed sense shadow side sight slowly soul spirit spoke stood strange sublime suddenly suffering symbols things thou thought thrill tion torture truth uncon unutterable utterly vision voice walked walls wonderful words
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Seite 317 - Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. She...
Seite 140 - Her open eyes desire the truth. The wisdom of a thousand years Is in them. May perpetual youth Keep dry their light from tears ; That her fair form may stand and shine, Make bright our days and light our dreams, Turning to scorn with lips divine The falsehood of extremes...
Seite i - twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Seite 69 - A face that was the ferreous incarnation of all imaginations of malice and irony looked on me with a glare, withering from its intense heat, but still more from the unconceived degree of inner wickedness which it symbolized.
Seite 148 - ... and are affected by the same emotions. In proportion as this condition is violated will two men be unappreciating of each other's inner states. Now in hasheesh it is utterly violated. In the hasheesh-eater a virtual change of worlds has taken place, through the preternatural scope and activity of all his faculties. Truth has not become expanded, but his vision has grown telescopic; that which others see only as the dim nebula, or do not see at all, he looks into with a penetrating scrutiny which...
Seite 37 - Washington more than any thing else to which I can compare it. Its roof was vaulted, and at the side opposite the entrance the floor rose into a dais surmounted by a large arm-chair. The body of the house was occupied by similar chairs disposed in arcs; the heavy paneling of the walls was adorned with grotesque frescoes of every imaginable bird, beast, and monster, which, by some hidden law of life and motion, were forever changing, like the figures of the kaleidoscope.
Seite 27 - In the intensity of my observations, I began to perceive that the circulation was not as rapid as I had thought. From a pulseless flow it gradually came to be apprehended as a hurrying succession of intense throbs, then less swift and less intense, till finally, on comparing it with the second-hand, I found that about 90 a minute was its average rapidity. Greatly comforted, I desisted from the experiment. Almost instantly the hallucination returned. Again I dreaded apoplexy, congestion, hemorrhage,...
Seite 22 - I sat and listened ; still the voice kept speaking. Now for the first time I experienced that vast change which hasheesh makes in all measurements of time. The first word of the reply occupied a period sufficient for the action of a drama ; the last left me in complete ignorance of any point far enough back in the past to date the commencement of the sentence. Its enunciation might have occupied years. I was not in the same life which had held me when I heard it begun.
Seite 19 - I waited till my friend was out of sight, that I might not terrify him by that which he considered a suicidal venture, and then quietly uncapping my little archer a second time, removed from his store of offensive armor a pill sufficient to balance the ten grain weight of the sanctorial scales. This, upon the authority of Pereira and the Dispensatory, I swallowed without a tremor as to the danger of the result. Making all due allowance for the fact that I had not taken my hasheesh bolus fasting,...
Seite 35 - I did not seem to be in the interior of a temple. I beheld myself as truly in the open air as if I had never passed the portals, for whichever way I looked there were no walls, no roof, no pavement. An atmosphere of fathomless and soul-satisfying serenity surrounded and transfused me. I stood upon the bank of a crystal stream, whose waters, as they slid on, discoursed notes of music which tinkled on the ear like the tones of some exquisite bellglass. The same impression which such tones produce,...