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Pass then, my good painter, to something more within its power; and the next article brought forward should naturally be myself a picture of the Opium-eater, with his "little golden receptacle of the pernicious drug" lying beside him on the table. As to the opium, I have no objection to see a picture of that, though I would rather see the original.
The habit once acquired is never successfully abandoned. There is always some hope of reform for a drunkard, but for an opium-eater, never. No statistics of a reliable character as to the quantity of the deadly drug which is consumed in China can be obtained, but the aggregate amount, large as it is known to be, is yet increasing.
I needed none and oh! with what unutterable sorrow did I read the 'Confessions of an Opium-eater, in which the writer with morbid vanity makes a boast of what was my misfortune, for he had been faithfully and with an agony of zeal warned of the gulf, and yet willfully struck into the current! Heaven be merciful to him!
The details of this vagrancy are best learned in his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, where we meet not simply the facts of his life, but also the confusion of dreams and fancies in the midst of which he wandered like a man lost on the mountains, with storm clouds under his feet hiding the familiar earth.
The general directions I should be disposed to suggest for the observance of the confirmed opium-eater would be something as follows: 1. To diminish the daily allowance as rapidly as possible to one-half.
Here we design only to make a coasting voyage of survey round the headlands and most conspicuous seamarks of our subject, as they are brought forward by Mr. Gillman, or collaterally suggested by our own reflections; and especially we wish to say a word or two on Coleridge as an opium-eater.
Then we had the 'Confessions of an Opium-eater' fine, very fine! glorious imagination deep philosophy acute speculation plenty of fire and fury, and a good spicing of the decidedly unintelligible. That was a nice bit of flummery, and went down the throats of the people delightfully. They would have it that Coleridge wrote the paper but not so.
As furnishing a key to some parts of that tremendous scenery which afterwards peopled the dreams of the Opium-eater. As creating some previous interest of a personal sort in the confessing subject, apart from the matter of the confessions, which cannot fail to render the confessions themselves more interesting. Humani nihil a se alienum putat.
Strange as it may seem, the very thought of exertion will often waken in the reforming opium-eater acute nervous pains, which cease only as the purpose is abandoned. In other cases, where there is no special nervous suffering at the time, work is easy and pleasant even beyond what is natural. One effect of opium upon the mind deserves to be mentioned; its influence upon the faculty of memory.
Clare had read with the deepest interest the 'Confessions of an English Opium-eater, which appeared in the 'London Magazine, of September and October, 1821; and the picture of the outcast Ann haunted his imagination whenever walking the streets and meeting with any of her frail sisters. Mr.
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