...unfold itself. Perhaps some part of my London life might be answerable for this. Be that as it may, His floods should quench His flames with what 2 agitation was infinite, my mind tossed and surged with the ocean. May, 1818. — The Malay has been...

...unfold itself. Perhaps some part of my London life might be answerable for this. Be that as it may, now it was that upon the rocking waters of the ocean...thousands, by myriads, by generations, by centuries; — my agitation was infinite, — my mind tossed — and surged with the ocean. May, 1818. The Malay has...

...d'opium (6419). Given Baudelaire's direct translation of this passage, I will provide the English text: "Now it was that upon the rocking waters of the ocean...imploring, wrathful, despairing, surged upwards by the thousands, by myriads, by generations, by centuries: my agitation was infinite, my mind tossed,...

...unfold itself. Perhaps some part of my London life might be answerable for this. Be that as it may. now it was that upon the rocking waters of the ocean...imploring. wrathful. despairing. surged upwards by thousand. by myriads. by generations. by centuries — my agitation was infinite — my mind tossed...

...saints enfolded in its petals, has been transformed into one of De Quincey's auditory hallucinations: "The sea appeared paved with innumerable faces, upturned...thousands, by myriads, by generations, by centuries: —my agitation was infinite, —my mind tossed —and surged with the ocean." 24 The commitment of allegory...

...part of my London life might be answerable for this [tyranny of the human face]. Be that as it may, now it was that upon the rocking waters of the ocean...heavens: faces, imploring, wrathful, despairing, surged upward by thousands, by myriads, by generations, by centuries: — my agitation was infinite, — my...

...wit of the first "yoking together things apparently unlike" with the evocative rhythms of the second: "Now it was that upon the rocking waters of the ocean the human face began to reveal itself; the sea appeared paved with innumerable faces, upturned to the heavens; faces imploring,...

...The human face 'brings its tyranny' into these dreams, appearing on the rocking waters of the ocean: 'faces, imploring, wrathful, despairing, surged upwards...thousands, by myriads, by generations, by centuries: my agitation was infinite, my mind tossed, and surged with the ocean' (108). Baudelaire emphasizes the...

...their character - from translucent lakes, shining like mirrors, they became seas and oceans. And [...] upon the rocking waters of the ocean the human face began to reveal itself; the sea appeared paved with innumerable faces, upturned to the heavens: faces, imploring,...

...Thomas De Quincey's hallucinatory vision, in which the ocean becomes a massive space of representation: "The sea appeared paved with innumerable faces, upturned...thousands, by myriads, by generations, by centuries." De Quincey, attributing the vision to living in London, a place he says is ruled by "the tyranny of...