The newspapers kindly pass it over, still preparing their accustomed opiate of sweet praises, so much for each contributor, so much for the magazine collectively,like a hostess with her tea-making, a spoonful for each person and one for the pot.

[p] And sloth's bland opiates shed their fumes in vain.

Everything is below concert-pitch, except perhaps the orchestra, which insists upon playing lively and popular music, instead of doing the Dead March in Saul for a funeral procession while the audience files out dreamily to drink, and empties some dull opiate to the drains.

In the past, this was balanced by the almost universal dominance of some religious belief, as an effective opiate.

Against the instillations of this frigid opiate, the heart should be secured by all the considerations which once concurred to kindle the ardour of enterprise.

And so I will say no more of the idea that the novel is merely a harmless opiate for the vacant hours of prosperous men.

It is an unfailing opiate, to turn over the drowsy files of the "Richmond Enquirer", until the moment when those dry and dusty pages are suddenly kindled into flame by the torch of Nat Turner.