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" ... the wished-for consummation. The last scene in this tragic play is generally a room in the rear of the building, a species of deadhouse, where lie stretched those who have passed into the state of bliss the opium-smoker madly seeks — an emblem of... "
The illustrated history of the British empire in India and the East ... to ... - Page 199
by Edward Henry Nolan - 1878
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1848 - 792 pages
...completely under the influences of the drug, to regard passing events, and fast merging into tie wished for consummation. The last scene in this tragic play is...generally a room in the rear of the building, a species of morgue, or dead-house, vhere lie those who have passed into the state of bliss the opium-smoker nadir...
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volume 14

456 pages
...couches around are filled with their different occupants, who lie languid with an idiot smile upon their countenances, too much under the influence of...stretched those who have passed into the state of bliss the opium-smoker madly seeks — an emblem of the long sleep to which be is blindly hurrying."...
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Six Months with the Chinese Expedition, Or, Leaves from a Soldier's Note-book

Robert Jocelyn Jocelyn (Viscount) - 1841 - 188 pages
...filled with their different occupants, who lie languid with an idiot smile upon their countenance, too much under the influence of the drug to care for...stretched those who have passed into the state of bliss the opiumsmoker madly seeks — an emblem of the long sleep to which he is blindly hurrying....
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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical ..., Volume 2

1841 - 502 pages
...filled with their different occupants, who lie languid with an idiot smile upon their countenance, too much under the influence of the drug to care for...stretched those who have passed into the state of bliss the opium smoker madly seeks — an emblem of the long sleep to which he is blindly hurrying.''...
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The Journal of Civilization: Established for the Promotion of Civilization ...

1851 - 428 pages
...lie languid with an idiot smile upon their countenance, too much THE FIRST MISSIONARY TO THE NEGROES. under the influence of the drug to care for passing...stretched those who have passed into the state of bliss the opinm-smoker madly geeks — an emblem of the long sleep to which he is blindly harrying....
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The Monthly Review

1841 - 658 pages
...filled with their different occupants. who lie languid with an idiot smile upon their countenance, too much under the influence of the drug to care for...the rear of the building, a species of dead-house, v.'here lie stretched those who have passed into the state of bliss the opium-smoker madly seeks •...
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The Chinese Repository, Volume 10

Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - 1841 - 712 pages
...filled with their different occupants, who lie languid with an idiotic smile upon their countenance, too much under the influence of the drug to care for...generally a room in the rear of the building, a species of death-house, where lie stretched those who have passed into the state of bliss the opiumsmoker madly...
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"Ten Thousand Chinese Things.": A Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese ...

Nathan Dunn, William B. Langdon - 1842 - 212 pages
...filled with their different occupants, who lie languid, with an idiotic smile upon their countenance, too much under the influence of the drug to care for...stretched those who have passed into the state of bliss the opium-smoker madly seeks — an emblem of the long sleep to which he is blindly hurrying."*...
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The Saint Petersburg English Review of Literature, the Arts and ..., Volume 1

1842 - 602 pages
...filled with their different occupants, who lie languid, with an idiot smile upon their countenance, too much under the influence of the drug to care for passing events, and fast verging to the wished-for consummation. The last scene in this tragic play is generally a room in the...
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China, in a Series of Views, Displaying the Scenery ..., Volume 228

Thomas Allom - 1843 - 260 pages
...with an idiotsmile upon their countenances, too completely under the influence of the drug, to regard passing events, and fast merging to the wished-for...generally a room in the rear of the building, a species of morgue or dead-house, where lie sheltered those who have passed into the state of bliss the opiumsmoker...
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