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" Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and vertical sunlights, I brought together all creatures, birds, beasts, reptiles, all trees and plants, usages and appearances, that are found in all tropical regions, and assembled them together in China... "
The Student: a magazine of theology, literature, and science - Page 120
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The Seven Sisters of Sleep: The Celebrated Drug Classic

Mordecai Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - Fiction - 1997 - 308 pages
...confessions describe the characteristics of some of these opiatic visions in connection with tropical lands. Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and...tropical regions, and assembled them together in China or Hindostan. From kindred feelings, I brought Egypt and her gods under the same law. I was stared at,...
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Oriental Prospects: Western Literature and the Lure of the East

C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 308 pages
...oriental imagery and mythological tortures impressed upon me. Under the connecting feeling of tropic heat and vertical sunlights, I brought together all...tropical regions, and assembled them together in China or Hindostan. From kindred feelings, I soon brought Egypt and her gods under the same law .... I ran into...
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Oriental Prospects: Western Literature and the Lure of the East

C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 306 pages
...oriental imagery and mythological tortures impressed upon me. Under the connecting feeling of tropic heat and vertical sunlights, I brought together all...tropical regions, and assembled them together in China or Hindostan. From kindred feelings, I soon brought Egypt and her gods under the same law .... I ran into...
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Infelicities: Representations of the Exotic

Peter Mason - Art - 1998 - 304 pages
...witness to the same indifference to geographic specificity in his 1821 version of the exotic Orient: "Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and...sun-lights, I brought together all creatures, birds, beast, reptiles, all trees and plants, usages and appearances, that are found in all tropical regions,...
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High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction

Janet Farrell Brodie, Marc Redfield - Computers - 2002 - 248 pages
...persecution. In this regard, the following brief excerpt from the "Malay dream" of May 1818 is exemplary: Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and...appearances, that are found in all tropical regions. ... I ran into pagodas: and was fixed, for centuries, at the summit, or in secret rooms; I was the...
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Configuring Romanticism: Essays Offered to C.C. Barfoot

Theo d'. Haen, Theo d' Haen, P. Th. M. G. Liebregts, Wim Tigges, Colin J. Ewen - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 324 pages
...unimaginable horror which these dreams of Oriental imagery, and mythological tortures, impressed upon me. Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and...assembled them together in China or Indostan. From kindred teelings, I soon brought Egypt and all her gods under the same law. I was stared at, hooted at, grinned...
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Fictions and Fakes: Forging Romantic Authenticity, 1760-1845

Margaret Russett - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 19 pages
...a kaleidoscope of colorful images, somewhat as De Quincey's opium dreams of the same period united "all creatures, birds, beasts, reptiles, all trees...found in all tropical regions," and assembled them, along with "Egypt and all her gods," in "China or Indostan" (Confessions 73). Thus, in a familiar Romantic...
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Selections from de Quincey

176 pages
...unimaginable horror which these dreams of oriental imagery and mythological tortures impressed upon me. Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and...tropical regions, and assembled them together in China or Hindostan. From kindred feelings, I soon brought Egypt and her gods under the same law. I was stared...
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Cambridge Readings in Literature

George Sampson (Editor of Berkeley's Works.) - 1931 - 348 pages
...unimaginable horror which these dreams of oriental imagery and mythological tortures impressed upon me. Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and...tropical regions, and assembled them together in China or Hindostan. From kindred feelings, I soon brought Egypt and her gods under the same law. I was stared...
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Cambridge Readings in Literature

308 pages
...unimaginable horror which these dreams of oriental imagery and mythological tortures impressed upon me. Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and...tropical regions, and assembled them together in China or Hindostan. From kindred feelings, I soon brought Egypt and her gods under the same law. I was stared...
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