Confessions of an English Opium Eater

ISBN: 9781330352410 出版年：2016 页码：291 Thomas de Quincey Forgotten Books

Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude; and, even in the choice of a grave, will sometimes sequester themselves from the general population of the church-yard, as if declining to claim fellow ship with the great family of man, and wishing (in the affecting language of Mr. Wordsworth)