 | 1827 - 944 Seiten
...at the Old Bailey,) and that, I confess, is its weak side; or it may also be treated cestheticaliy, as the Germans call it, that is, in relation to good taste. To illustrate this, 1 will urge the authority of three eminent persons, viz. ST Coleridge, Aristotle, and Mr Howship the... | |
 | 1827 - 968 Seiten
...the Old Bailey ;) and llnil, I confess, is its weak side; or it may also be treated wsthetically, . as the Germans call it, that is, in relation to good...Aristotle, and Mr Howship the surgeon. To begin with S. Т. С. — One night, many years ago, I was drinking tea with him in Berners' Street, (which, by... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 380 Seiten
...Everything in this world has two handles. Murder, for instance, may be laid hold of by its moral handle(as it generally is in the pulpit, and at the Old Bailey)...night, many years ago, I was drinking tea with him hi Berners Street (which, by the way, for a short street, has been uncommonly fruitful in men of genius).... | |
 | 1865 - 1120 Seiten
...tell me who De Quincey alludes to in his Essay on Murder as the men of genius in Berners Street? — "To begin with STC One night many years ago I was drinking tea with him in Berners Street (which, byhe-way, for a short street, has been uncommonly fruitful n men of genius.") GB [Cunningham, in his... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1877 - 478 Seiten
...the Old Bailey ;) and that, I confess, is its weak side ; or it may also be treated aesthetically, as the Germans call it, — that is, in relation to good taste. In these assassinations of princes and statesmen, there is nothing to excite our wonder : important... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 466 Seiten
...confess, is its weak side ; or it may also be treated cesthetically, as the Germans call it—that is, in relation to good taste. To illustrate this,...street, has been uncommonly fruitful in men of genius). 2 Others were there besides myself; and, amidst 1 Kant—who carried his demands of unconditional veracity... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 464 Seiten
...at the Old Bailey), and that, I confess, is its weak side ; or it may also be treated aesthetically, as the Germans call it — that is, in relation to...short street, has been uncommonly fruitful in men of genius).2 Others were there besides myself ; and, amidst 1 Kant — who carried his demands of unconditional... | |
 | 1912 - 870 Seiten
...at the Old Bailey); and that, I confess, Is its weak side; or It may also be treated (rxtlicticnJIn, as the Germans call It — that is, in relation to good taste. That this essay In satírica! humor should be so successful is the more astonishing because humor was... | |
 | 1922 - 570 Seiten
...on being taxed with it by a celebrated French writer, he solemnly reaffirmed it, with his reasons. eminent persons, viz., ST Coleridge, Aristotle] and...surgeon. To begin with STC — One night, many years ago, 1 was drinking tea with him in Berners Street (which by the way, for a short street, has been uncommonly... | |
 | Peter A. French - 242 Seiten
...hitherto subscribed for that purpose. But what then? . . . Murder . . . may be treated aesthetically, as the Germans call it— that is, in relation to good taste. . . . When a murder is in the paulo-post-futurum tense —not done, not even (according to modern purism)... | |
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Everything in this world has two handles. Murder, for instance, may be laid hold of by its moral handle (as it generally is in the pulpit and at the Old Bailey), and that, I confess, is its weak side ; or it may also be treated aesthetically, as the Germans... 
