ROMANTICS

• Thomas De Quincey: 'After 'a very melancholy event' he 'suffered much in bodily health from distress of the mind''
• Thomas De Quincey: ''attacked by a most appalling irritation of the stomach, in all respects the same as that which had caused me so much suffering in youth, and accompanied by a revival of all the same dreams''
• Thomas De Quincey: ''shaded by Judean palms'<|>'vapours rolling'<|>'thick darkness'<|>'in all other points the same and not older''
• Thomas De Quincey: ''[Ann] fixed her eyes on me earnestly, and I said to her at length: "So then, I have found you at last." I waited but she answered me not a word''
• James Hogg: 'Rabina and Mrs Keeler's daughter 'murdered together, buried together, and then unearthed together''
• James Hogg: ''amours with any woman… so absurd, so far from my principles, so from the purity of nature and frame to which I was born and consecrated, that I hold it as an insult, and regard it with contempt''
• James Hogg: ''I brought myself to despise, if not to abhor, the beauty of women… the greatest snare to which mankind was subjected … maidens and old women (my mother among the rest), taxed me with being an unnatural wretch … [but] I gloried in my acquisiton''
• James Hogg: ''my mother and reverend father''
• James Hogg: ''it was a judgement from heaven inflicted on her for some sin of former days, and that I had no power to have acted otherwise towards her than I did''
• James Hogg: ''creatures fitted from the beginning for eternal destruction''
• Panoramic vision

  Fantasy of a panoramic vision via birds eye view and the 'incomparable power of intellection'
• To travel in the past


  Was to be thrust into the midst of sensation, to perceive only a kind of tidal wave of things
• The Eiffel Tower

  Allows us to 'transcend sensation'
• Mary Wollstonecraft: ''the time may come, when the traveller may ask where proud London stood? When its temples, its laws, and its trade, may be buried in one common ruin''
• Mary Wollstonecraft: ''prostitutes who infest the streets of London''
• Mary Wollstonecraft: ''they trample on virgin bashfulness'<|>'but these poor ignorant wretches never had any modesty to lose''
• Mary Wollstonecraft: ''I therefore desired the driver to hasten to the hotel… that I might avert my eyes and snap the train of thinking which had sent me into all corners of the city in search of houseless heads''
• Charlotte Smith: ''pirate Dane' who 'sleeps unremember'd here'<|>'rests alike / The savage native'<|>'all, with the lapse of Time, have passed away''
• Charlotte Smith: 'Herdsman on surface who 'may trace / or fancy he can trace…'<|>'the mail'd legions, under Claudius rear'd'<|>'that deep beneath / Rest the remains of men, of whom is left / No traces in the records of mankind''
• Charlotte Smith: ''Save what these half obliterated mounds / And half fill'd trenches doubtfully impart''
• William Blake: ''I wander thro' each charter'd street'<|>'the new-born Infants tear''
• William Wordsworth: ''across a bare wide common I had toiled''
• William Blake: ''vast spine writh'd in torment / Upon the winds ; shooting pain'd Ribs'<|>'panting; conglobing, trembling / Shooting out ten thousand branches / Aroudn his solid bones'<|>'globe of life-blood trembling'<|>'the globe of life-blood trembled''
• William Blake: ''the nameless shadowy female rose from out the breast of Orc'<|>'my lab'ring head'<|>'prolific pains'<|>'red limb'd angel''
• William Blake: ''as human blood shooting its veins all round the orbed heaven / Red rose the clouds from the Atlantic in vast wheels of blood''
• William Blake: 'A Spectre 'glowd his horrid length staining the temple long / With beams of blood''
• Aim of Anthony Fothergill's A New Inquiry into the Suspension of Vital Action


  To point out the best method of restoring animation
• Anthony Fothergill: ''are the nerves to be considered as elastic cords which perform the vibrations, as the Aeolian harp emits sounds, without an intelligent Agent''
• Anthony Fothergill: ''a human foetus has been born alive having only a few detached filaments of nerves in place of the spinal marrow, but without even a vestige of brain''
• Blood

  • Where is 'the vital principle'
  • 'passive, inorganic mass'
  • 'nourishes and sustains'
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: ''toothless mastiff bitch'<|>'never till now she uttered yell / Beneath the eye of Christabel''
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: ''nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken / the ice was all between'<|>'it crack'd and growl'd, and roar'd and howl'd'<|>'at length did pass an Albatross''
• William Cowper: 'Beak more bright than 'the sleekest mole'<|>Cat has a 'snout' and is 'badger-coloured'<|>Bully has a dream of a 'rat' on his cage -- 'he awoke and found it true''
• William Cowper: ''Ye Nymphs … share Maria's grief''