 ... influence of the drug to care for passing events, and fast merging to the wished-for consummation. The last scene in this tragic play is generally a room in the rear of the building, a species of dead-house, where lie stretched those who have passed...  Chambers's pocket miscellany - Page 24by Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853Full view - About this book
 | University magazine - 1848 - 792 pages
...morgue, or dead-house, vhere lie those who have passed into the state of bliss the opium-smoker nadir seeks — an emblem of the long sleep to which he is blindly hurrying." TheBritish merchant is unquestionably entitled to every protection in the prosecution of his legitimate... | |
 | Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - 1841 - 712 pages
...death-house, where lie 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." AVJ- Month* with the Chinese Expedition. 513 Lord Jocelyn thinks — nay he affirms, positively —... | |
 | Robert Jocelyn Jocelyn (Viscount) - 1841 - 188 pages
...dead-house, where lie 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. During our stay at Singapore the seamen of the flag-ship Wellesley were exercised on shore, under the... | |
 | 1841 - 658 pages
...dead-house, v.'here lie 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." If we could bring ourselves to believe that the immorality of the opium traffic, or that the disastrous... | |
 | Nathan Dunn, William B. Langdon - 1842 - 212 pages
...dead-house, where lie 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."* 360. An ivory ball, containing seven concentric spheres, cut from a solid block. 361. Bridge of five... | |
 | Nathan Dunn, William B. Langdon - 1842 - 338 pages
...dead-house, where lie stretched those who have passed into the state of insensibility the opiumsmoker madly seeks — an emblem of the long sleep to which he is blindly hurrying."* 360. An ivory ball, containing seven concentric spheres, cut from a solid block. 30 1 . Bridge of five... | |
 | Thomas Allom - 1843 - 260 pages
...dead-house, where lie sheltered 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."* It may be asked, can no remedies be discovered for a vice so deplorable, a disease so corroding to... | |
 | William B. Langdon, Nathan Dunn - 1843 - 176 pages
...dead-house, where lie stretched those who have passed into the state of insensibility the opium-smoker madly seeks — an emblem of the long sleep to which he is blindly hurrying."* 360. An ivory ball, containing seven concentric spheres, cut from a solid block. 361. Bridge of five... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - 790 pages
...dead-house, where lie stretched those who have passed into the state of bliss which the opium-smoker madly seeks — an emblem of the long sleep to which he is blindly hurrying.' [Ought Christian merchants to labour for wealth by providing the means for such orgies as these ! Ought... | |
 | Van-ti (fict. name.) - 1844 - 152 pages
...species of dead-house, where lie stretched those who have passed into the state of bliss the smoker madly seeks, an emblem of the long sleep to which he is blindly hurrying*." The time is hardly come in which we can take a just view of the Chinese as a nation, but we can all... | |
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