...happened fifty years ago, I began to realise what De Quincey meant when he said in an opium-flash, "If I were compelled to forego England and to live...manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad." In Sian they tell you anecdotes of Fu hi and Shen-nung, who succeeded him. Mr. Shen-nung had a glass-stomach,...

...filled him with profound terror. " I know not," he says in his Confessions, " whether others share my feelings on this point ; but I have often thought...compelled to forego England, and to live in China, among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad. ... A young Chinese seems to...

...point ; but I have often thought that if I were compelled to forego England, and to live in China, among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad. ... A young Chinese seems to me an antediluvian man renewed. ... In China, over and above what it has...

...point ; but I have often thought that if I were compelled to forego England, and to live in China, among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery,...lie deep, and some of them must be common to others. ... In China, over and above what it has in common with the rest of southern Asia, I am terrified by...

...ordinary language, and very often based on no personal experience. " I know not," said De Quincey, " what others share in my feelings on this point ; but I...compelled to forego England, and to live in China, among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad. The causes of my horror lie deep,...

...a cycle of Cathay. A noteworthy, though obviously an accidental, coincidence occurs in De Quincey: I know not whether others share in my feelings on...manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad. — Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, May, 1818. But a closer analogy to the thought in the passage...

...Every night, through his means, I have been transported into Asiatic scenery. I know not whether G others share in my feelings on this point; but I have...compelled to forego England, and to live in China, among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad. The causes of my horror lie deep,...

...that caused him the profoundest terror. " I know not," says he in his "Confessions," "if others share my feelings on this point; but I have often thought that, if I were compelled to forgo England, and to live in China, among Chinese manners and methods and scenery, I should go mad....

...enemy for months. I have been every night, through his means, transported into [690 Asiatic scenes. I know not whether others share in my feelings on...Asia, in general, is the seat of awful images and asso- [700 ciations. As the cradle of the human race, it would alone have a dim and reverential feeling...

...Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them — Washington Irving. KNOW not whether others share in my feelings on this...lie deep; and some of them must be common to others M» Southern Asia, in general, is the seat of awful images and associations. As the cradle of the human...