Word: opium
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copeland began his lecture last evening by taking up in brief detail the lately published correspondence of Matthew Arnold, Coleridge, Edward Fitzgerald, Flaubert, and Stevenson. The Coleridge volumes contain the fullest record yet printed of the poet's life, the long struggle with opium, and an indolent and irresolute nature. Arnold's letters also are largely biographical by intention, since Arnold like Thackeray was unwilling to have any formal life of himself published. A good many dry and trivial details, as well as references to persons still living, might well have been omitted; and the finical hypercritical streak...
...ready for exhibition in the Economic room. One of the most attractive features of the present exhibit is a collection illustrating the narcotics and stimulants used by different races. Here are characteristic specimens of Kava, of the South Sea, Betel of India, Mate, or Paraguayan tea, Coca of Peru, Opium of Turkey...
...lived as a literary vagabond. In a short time, he was discovered and removed by friends. In October 1803, he went to Worcester College, Oxford, and sought neither friends nor university honors. The exposure and privations which he had previously experienced drove him to the demoralizing habit of eating opium, the source of so many pains and pleasures. The deadly habit soon became a daily practice and was accompanied with the taken of laudanum...
...shattered condition of the household finances caused De Quincey to awake from his opium habit in which he languished from 1817 to 1821. He was a constant contributer to the different English magazines and amid hopeless confusion, he carried on his literary work. The publication of his book on the Confessions of an English Opium Eater was a startling revelation to the literary people of the world. He lived by his pen for fifty years and when his magazine articles were collected they filled fifty volumes. All these articles are characterized by individuality, humor, imagination and the evident results...
...Told at the House of Tunn-Chwing" is much poorer. It is far more ambitious in its nature, as it is a relation of the incoherent ramblings of an opium-smoking woman, shattered by the insidious habit which has mastered her. As such, it immediately invites comparison with Rud-yard Kipling's "At the Gate of the Hundred Sorrows," to which it bears much similarity in conception and to which, it is almost needless to say, it is infinitely inferior. And for several faulty English constructions in the opening paragraph, there is not the excuse of delineating an opium eater...