Opium-eater

But that the reader may judge for himself, and above all that the Opium-eater, who is preparing to retire from business, may have every sort of information before him, I subjoin my diary: —

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However, as some people, in spite of all laws to the contrary, will persist in asking what became of the Opium-eater, and in what state he now is, I answer for him thus: The reader is aware that opium had long ceased to found its empire on spells of pleasure; it was solely by the tortures connected with the attempt to abjure it that it kept its hold.

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As furnishing a key to some parts of that tremendous scenery which afterwards peopled the dreams of the Opium-eater.

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Opium-eater, with his “little golden receptacle of the pernicious drug” lying beside him on the table.

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If a man “whose talk is of oxen” should become an opium-eater, the probability is that (if he is not too dull to dream at all) he will dream about oxen; whereas, in the case before him, the reader will find that the Opium-eater boasteth himself to be a philosopher; and accordingly, that the phantasmagoria of HIS dreams (waking or sleeping, day-dreams or night-dreams) is suitable to one who in that character

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The reader is already aware (from a passage near the beginning of the introduction to the first part) that the Opium-eater has, in some way or other,

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Not the Opium-eater, but the opium, is the true hero of the tale, and the legitimate centre on which the interest revolves.

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Confessions of an English Opium-eater, a sequel to.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

This passage in Sir Thomas Browne appears forcibly to have struck the gifted author of _Confessions of an English Opium-eater_ (see p. 106. of that work).

Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various

'Opium-eater,' could boast the editorship of the brilliant George

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various