英语词汇“De Quincey”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

At times her passion for quirks of character diverts her attention from the main thesis, but the lives of people such as De Quincey and Christie are often dramatic or amusing. “The Art of the English Murder” is a great read, but light on historical sources

As a writer, De Quincey was dominated and arguably ruined by his habit. A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid Crisis 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

They didn’t take a huge liking to De Quincey. Reading Racist Literature 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

In her exemplary study of De Quincey, the 18th-century writer perhaps best known for his “Confessions of an English Opium Eater,” Wilson looks beyond the fumes. Paperback Row 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

“His sister Jane lived three years,” she writes of De Quincey. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

It was in the fall of 1804 that Thomas De Quincey, a 19-year-old wannabe intellectual, decided to try a little opium for a bad toothache. A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid Crisis 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Nine years ago, the Canadian historian Robert Morrison published a scholarly and engrossing life of England’s second most famous opium eater, Thomas De Quincey. Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights and Britain Becomes Modern 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

When De Quincey published his “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater” 17 years later, his poetic depictions of the wild hallucinations that punctuated his years with the drug transfixed his contemporaries. A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid Crisis 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

It lies in the direct inheritance of the romantic confessional—the Jewish-American offspring of Rousseau and Chateaubriand and De Quincey and Hazlitt, where human truth is the reward of personal egotism. The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

The only mystery is why no major writer has chipped in with a memoir to rank with De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater or William Styron's chronicle of depression, Darkness Visible. Why do writers drink? 2013-07-20T07:00:14Z

For a class about loss, students read Elizabeth Alexander and Virginia Woolf; for one about “altered states,” Cheryl Strayed and Thomas De Quincey. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Professor Ward wrote introductions to editions of William Blake and Thomas De Quincey and edited a collection of Keats’s poems. Aileen Ward, Scholar and Biographer, Dies at 97 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

De Quincey had wonderful ideas he could never remember, often scribbled down on pieces of paper he could never find. A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid Crisis 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Earlier this year, I assigned Thomas De Quincey’s “Confessions of an English Opium Eater” in my nonfiction-writing class at Baruch College, part of the City University of New York. Reading Racist Literature 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

Best of all, he loves writers who craft sentences crooked with clauses, like Thomas Browne and Thomas De Quincey. Celebrating Strange Faces, Gorgeous Sentences and Circular Prose 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

Another volume has De Quincey’s “The Spanish Military Nun,” whose title has always intrigued me. John Ashbery: By the Book 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Karl Marx lived in Soho, as did Thomas De Quincey, author of “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater”. Silence shrouds London's deserted midnight party land 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

In the 19th century, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas De Quincey wrote freely about their use of opium, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning referred to a mixture of morphine and ether as “my elixir.” Where Have All the Artist-Addicts Gone? 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

His friend Charles Lamb called him “a cracked archangel”, while his fellow drug addict Thomas De Quincey would defend his poetic experimentalism. Why Willem Dafoe, Iggy Pop and more are reading The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to us 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

Unsentimental and precise, he reckons with a past simultaneously vanished and all too present, drawing inventively on Proust, Nabokov, De Quincey, and St. Augustine. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

Fact and fiction blend effortlessly as De Quincey and his daughter Emily search for the culprit. ‘Ruler of the Night’ transports readers to Victorian London 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

De Quincey was happiest when he was chipping away at the sublime, volume by volume or vision by vision, and his happiness was always dangerously leveraged. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Thomas De Quincey, a real-life writer of the era, is a fictitious sleuth in the story, but the novel’s real star is “the revenger.” Review: ‘Inspector of the Dead” is masterful work 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

De Quincey said if he were to live in China, he should go mad. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z

De Quincey's distinction between the literature of knowledge and that of power is our line of demarkation. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z

For me, he simply turned into superior "journalism" the ideas of Swinburne, Pater, Flaubert, Huysmans, De Quincey, and others. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z

De Quincey’s writing often boils down trauma to its core variables—a window, a dead body, summer—so as to make the experience repeatable, both for him and for his readers. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

This is partly the reason, yet De Quincey and Edgar Allan Poe inspire no such aversion. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z

Such a volume then may, if any, claim to belong to what De Quincey called the literature of power as distinct from that of mere information. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z

One can readily sympathise with the melancholy of a man who, after reading De Quincey, Macaulay, Addison, Lamb, Pater, and Stevenson, found that literary style was still a mystery to him. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z

Lodging at some place, De Quincey took affront at something said by a landlady, and abruptly left his quarters. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z

When, on November 4, 1807, De Quincey finally met Wordsworth, near his front door, the poet appeared “like a flash of lightning,” as De Quincey put it. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

De Quincey has said that the book is equally divided between “empty truisms and time-serving Dutch falsehoods.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z

Solitude, too, that twin-sister of Silence, “though,” as De Quincey says, “it may be silent as light, is, like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man.” Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z

White Gill, in Langdale, Westmorland, nearly at the back of the inn at Millbeck, derives its chief interest from the loss of the two Greens there, so graphically described by De Quincey. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z

Mather suggests Milton, Irving suggests Addison, Emerson suggests Carlyle, Poe, shall we say, is often the too conscious workman typified by De Quincey. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z

Romanticism wasn’t a term in broad use in England when De Quincey began writing. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

It was the day after Croucher's introduction to De Quincey and the first bad night spent by anybody in the Chamber of Peace. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z

De Quincey has noted how such cries may make a deeper mark on the soul than any visible scene. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z

Thomas De Quincey sang in most glowing speech the glories of the English mail-coach. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z

De Quincey said he never offered to carry a lady's shawl; hardly offered a hand to help her over a stile. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z

In 1805, while a student at Oxford, De Quincey again resolved to meet his hero, with whom he had now been exchanging letters. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

"A very fair artist, too," rejoined the disciple of De Quincey. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z

Can any man turned fifty truthfully declare that he wishes De Quincey had left thirty volumes behind him instead of fifteen? Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z

De Quincey would describe Spanish beggary as having become elevated to one of the fine arts. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z

De Quincey says, "It is the most exquisite monument of playful fancy that universal literature offers." English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z

It is hard to know exactly what De Quincey wanted from Wordsworth, but, whatever it was, it seems clear that he could tell from the start he wouldn’t be getting it. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Even De Quincey, Ruskin, and others from among our best English writers, subscribe to this monstrous doctrine, and it is true that there is plenty of support for it in history. Teaching the Child Patriotism 2011-07-03T02:00:11.747Z

De Quincey, taking his thousand drops of laudanum a day, represents one of the most encouraging examples of this since he succeeded eventually in breaking away from his habit. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z

Strange to say, De Quincey, in an explanatory note to Lessing's observations, also overlooks the movement of water broken by rocks, though he refers specially to landscape painting. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z

There De Quincey bowed and smiled, while interposing his mild but terrible and unanswerable "buts," and winding the subtle way of his talk through all subjects, human, infernal, and divine. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z

These dramas were De Quincey’s specialty, and were certainly reënactments of his childhood. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

It is fair to add that twelve years later De Quincey went a good way in recantation of this outburst. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z

He literally identified himself with De Quincey and Poe, translating them so wonderfully well that some unpatriotic persons like the French better than the originals. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z

Compare him with De Quincey or with Ruskin. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z

Indeed he hadn't said a word except that the Haymarket story was the finest piece of English prose since De Quincey. The Boy Grew Older 2011-05-10T02:01:01.027Z

The first half of De Quincey’s life is a long and convoluted story. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

It was these and such like technical liberties with language which scandalized conservative critics, and caused even De Quincey, becoming tardily acquainted with Keats’s work, to dislike and utterly under-rate it. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z

To him, as to De Quincey, a sister brought the idea of mortality. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z

Others, like De Quincey, have rivalled, and perhaps equalled his best passages. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z

Nor should we forget De Quincey, who spent twenty of the happiest years of his life at Dove Cottage, as the successor of the Wordsworths. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z

That idea was easily internalized, and brought together in one heroic quest De Quincey’s opium visions and the writing that he concocted to describe them. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

There is a class of English writers to whom the descriptive term essayist is applied, the most illustrious being Addison, Steele, Charles Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Macaulay, Carlyle, Froude, Matthew Arnold, R. L. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z

He was an ardent defender of the Rosicrucians, and De Quincey considers him to have been the immediate, as J.V. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z

But excellent passages in De Quincey are much rarer than in Ruskin. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z

But it is De Quincey who gives the best statement of the world’s obligation to Dorothy. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z

De Quincey beheld, in the “theatre” of his mind, along with “more than earthly splendours,” horrors beyond belief: “vast processions” of “mournful pomp,” and “friezes of never-ending stories” as terrifying as Greek tragedies. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

De Quincey, that admirable artist, that searcher into secrets and master of mysteries, has described my pains for me under the figure of the Opium Eater breaking the bonds of his vice. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z

On the road which skirts Rydal Water is Nab Cottage, forever associated with De Quincey and poor Hartley Coleridge. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z

A friend was talking to Wordsworth of De Quincey's articles about him. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z

De Quincey’s contention that there were no Essenes but the early Christians is now a literary curiosity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z

De Quincey is a special case, since he experienced subjective impressions as though they were real and wrote about them as though their reality could be conveyed, in all its Technicolor wonder and horror. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

De Quincey does not hesitate for a moment in deciding as to the identity between Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry. Mysteries of the Rosie Cross Or, the History of that Curious Sect of the Middle Ages, Known as the Rosicrucians; with Examples of their Pretensions and Claims as Set Forth in the Writings of Their Leaders and Disciples 2011-02-23T03:00:32.190Z

Of its many famous characters, the names of De Quincey and Harrison Ainsworth are perhaps the best known in literature. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z

Amongst modern prose writers, De Quincey is his only true rival in musical sensibility to words. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z

De Quincey included under the literature of power, prose as well as verse, fairy tales and romances as well as tragedies and epic poems. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z

De Quincey answered, “In carpentry it is clear to my mind that it could not.” The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Nay, it is interesting to note that Coleridge and De Quincey, two main agents of the "renascence of wonder" at the beginning of the nineteenth century, were both practised logicians. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z

Very soon De Quincey made a fourth in this remarkable group. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z

In one of his most entertaining essays, De Quincey points out that, when the intellect sets itself up in opposition to the feelings, one should always trust to the feelings. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z

By the literature of power De Quincey meant all literature except science. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z

It would “never end,” De Quincey reasoned, since by the time “all the one-legged commodores and yellow admirals” of one generation had finished, “another generation would have grown another crop of the same gallant spinners.” The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

But in this month of April thirty-five years ago I thought little of De Quincey or of his visions. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z

He has with excellent judgment given us somewhat of autobiography, somewhat of the rare and indescribable dream life of De Quincey, and somewhat of his tales, essays, and critiques. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z

All this bears out De Quincey's saying that only a man of extraordinary talent can write nonsense. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z

It would include chiefly the impassioned prose and prose phantasies of De Quincey's own work. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z

Motionlessness is not peace of mind, but De Quincey, who struggled his entire life to find a comfortable way to inhabit time, had good reason to prize it. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

I will be more curious than De Quincey: no mere bitter wind or frost, not even snow will serve my turn, though each of these has its admirable uses. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z

What he has given us is not all of De Quincey, but each chapter is complete in itself. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z

Such also were Defoe and De Quincey, two men of widely different gifts, but with rare power of moving men's souls. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z

De Quincey was no art-for-art's-sake man, and he recognized the importance of the rational and the moral element in the sphere of the literature of power. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z

De Quincey knew, as one scholar put it, “how one thing has a bearing on another,” and so does Wilson. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

All realism is unpopular, and De Quincey was eminently a realist. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z

—The peculiar character of De Quincey's work gives unusual opportunity for such a volume of selections as this, published under the untasteful name of "Beauties." The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z

I remembered the anecdote that De Quincey tells, about Sheridan and the young member who quoted Greek. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z

In speaking of the literature of ecstasy, something should be said about De Quincey's famous distinction of the literature of knowledge and the literature of power. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z

Long before he tried opium, Thomas De Quincey, the English essayist, was addicted to books. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

It was the place where I had bought my copy of "De Quincey" some years earlier, and is now sacred to me on that account. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z

De Quincey declared: "Next to the Bible in European publicity and currency this book came forward as an answer to the sighing of Christian Europe for light from heaven." The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z

De Quincey, the famous opium-eater, records dreams of ten to sixty years’ supernatural duration, and some quite beyond all limits of the waking experience. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z

And how can you on any pretence refuse to include in the category of poetry De Quincey's famous prose poems The Dream Fugue and Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow? The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z

Among the books De Quincey acquired, there was a history of Britain, expected to grow in time to “sixty or eighty parts.” The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

It always vexes me to detect, as I constantly do detect in modern critics, the subtle desire to run down De Quincey. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z

In the Confessions of an Opium Eater, Thomas De Quincey tells how he was chased through his nightmares by a cursed crocodile. The Spin 2010-08-24T09:44:00Z

A son of De Quincey in his graduation thesis humorously supported Professor Simpson. Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine

The question is, what relation is there between De Quincey's idea of the literature of power and that of the literature of ecstasy. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z

De Quincey’s father, then a prosperous merchant, died just a year after Elizabeth; soon, his loathed older brother, William, who was eleven, returned from boarding school. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

And another event of like importance was my seeing De Quincey's "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" at Pontypool Road Station. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z

They have made a careful study of the business; they have elevated it, as De Quincey would say, to the dignity of a fine art. The Story of Malta

If only De Quincey had realized the possibility of absinthe, he would have given us jewelled prose indeed.” The Missioner

He also recommends the would-be practitioners of free verse to study the prose rhythms of men like Pater and De Quincey. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z

William was known for all manner of household torments, some directed at the pets—he “had succeeded,” De Quincey wrote, “at bringing down cats by parachutes”—and Wilson writes that he “despised” Thomas. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

In his younger days he seems to have been as much devoted to the opera as ever De Quincey was. Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work

Here we have De Quincey at his best. The Speech of Monkeys

For an interesting comparison between opium and alcohol, we may refer our readers to De Quincey’s Confessions of an Opium Eater. A Vindication of England's Policy with Regard to the Opium Trade

If the papers on Hazlitt and De Quincey are more fragmentary than the others, it is because these writers have been already discussed by the author in a previous volume. The Vagabond in Literature

Mrs. De Quincey soon moved the family to Bath, the “fine and striking” spa town where Jane Austen set “Northanger Abbey,” and rented a prominent house whose most recent occupant had been Edmund Burke. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Besides which, in his later years, he was fascinated by the descriptions of Welsh scenery given in Borrow's "Wild Wales," and De Quincey's "Wanderings in Wales." Lafcadio Hearn

Few works of greater literary interest have of late years issued from the press than the two volumes of 'De Quincey Memorials.' The Speech of Monkeys

De Quincey, Thomas, quoted on Coleridge's reading, 12. The Voice and Spiritual Education

Thus it is we find in the same spiritual brotherhood men so different in genius and character as Hazlitt, De Quincey, Thoreau, Whitman, Borrow, Jefferies, Stevenson. The Vagabond in Literature

Soon De Quincey, now around fourteen, made his own discovery: the anonymous manuscript copy of Wordsworth’s ballad “We Are Seven,” then making its way around Bath. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

De Quincey's essay, "On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts," owes its reputation for humour to the same kind of unexpectedness in its table of values. The Book of This and That

It is the last word on a great subject; all we can hope to add is some baleful illustration or blood-stained footnote, not unworthy of De Quincey's text. A Thief in the Night Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and Cracksman

And even impassioned prose, like some of De Quincey's, for example, must be read, more or less, in time. The Voice and Spiritual Education

There was a man whose habits of life were pleasantly Bohemian, and whose sympathy with the Vagabond temperament has made some critics over-hastily class him temperamentally with writers like Hazlitt and De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature

De Quincey’s life, like that of Beckett’s Krapp, was fundamentally the record he kept of it, and that record owes its existence and its brilliance to the drug that all but destroyed him. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Coleridge is dead—but De Quincey is alive. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845

Was it not De Quincey that had a horror of the Chinese—of their inhumaneness and their inscrutability? From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel

The outposts of France, as one may call the great frontier provinces," De Quincey says, "were of all localities the most devoted to the Fleurs de Lys. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10)

Hazlitt, on the other hand, was a genuine digressionalist; so was De Quincey; so was Borrow. The Vagabond in Literature

These ironies were not lost on De Quincey: they fed his imagination. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

De Quincey was of the same age as Wordsworth. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)

On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth De Quincey, Collected Essays 340 79. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time

Never from the foundations of the earth," says De Quincey, "was there such a trial as this, if it were laid open in all its beauty of defence and all its hellishness of attack. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10)

And the era which started with a De Quincey closed with a Stevenson. The Vagabond in Literature

There were familiar disputes about whether De Quincey was corrupting the young, but the main intoxicant on display was his prose, which derived its power from being written in the grip of its subject. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

The alteration is an example of the justice of De Quincey's observation that "the Arcadia of Pope's age was the spurious Arcadia of the opera theatre." The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition

De Quincey, in his essay on “Modern Superstition,” says that this belief is coextensive with Christendom. Folk-lore of Shakespeare

On a visit to Somersetshire in 1807 he met De Quincey for the first time, and the younger man’s admiration was shown by a gift of �300, “from an unknown friend.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher"

Hazlitt, like De Quincey, had felt the glamour of the city as well as the glamour of the country; not with the irresistibility of Lamb, but for all that potently. The Vagabond in Literature

For De Quincey, a complex identification with Wordsworth began, tantalizingly, even before he had heard the man’s name. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

It must appear strange," says De Quincey, "that Pope at twenty-one should choose to come forward for the first time with a work composed at sixteen. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition

De Quincey seems to have been lowest in his estimation. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877.

Probably more boys have in the last forty years been brought to a love of literature proper by De Quincey than by any other writer whatever. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)

But an instinct for the open, the craving for pleasant spaces, and the longing of the hard-driven journalist for the gracious leisure of the country, these things were paramount with both Hazlitt and De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature

De Quincey, by then renting Dove Cottage after Wordsworth’s departure, was abject. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

De Quincey, on the other hand, had read it, and both in his writings and conversation, was in the habit of alluding to, quoting, and panegyrizing it as more than equal to Wordsworth's other achievements. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851

De Quincey said of him, ‘he wanted better bread than can be made with wheat.’ English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century

Wilson, impatient in everything, had fluctuated between grandeur and galimatias, bathos and bad taste; De Quincey, at times supreme, had at others simply succumbed to "rigmarole." A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)

Outwardly, neither the lives of Hazlitt nor De Quincey were what we would call happy. The Vagabond in Literature

The grief led to stomach pains; the stomach pains, De Quincey said, “yielded to no remedies but opium.” The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Common party divisions represented nothing scientific to his mind; and he was willing, like De Quincey, to accept them as corresponding halves of a necessary whole. The History of Freedom

The best likeness of him, in De Quincey’s judgement, is the portrait of Milton prefixed to Richardson’s notes on Paradise Lost. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century

Hannah More, once a substantially famous person in literature, is now chiefly remembered by her association with great men of letters, such as Johnson in her youth, Macaulay and De Quincey in her old age. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)

Comparing the styles of Hazlitt and De Quincey, one is struck with the greater fire and vigour of Hazlitt. The Vagabond in Literature

But De Quincey’s opium use now passed the point of no return, peaking at a rate of approximately four hundred and eighty grains per day, or twelve thousand drops of laudanum. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

It is De Quincey in opium—not opium in De Quincey—that ponders and that writes. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

Said Dr. Johnson: “Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind from China to Peru,” which, De Quincey or Tennyson declared, should have run: “Let observation with extended observation observe mankind extensively.” The So-called Human Race

Of this there was some even in De Quincey's own collection, and the proportion has been much increased since. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)

Indeed, the term which De Quincey applied to certain of his writings—“impassioned prose”—is really more applicable to many of Hazlitt’s essays. The Vagabond in Literature

It was swallowed in the form of pills or dissolved in alcohol to make laudanum, the tincture preferred by De Quincey. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

We would speak of De Quincey's history, of his faults, of his genius, of his works, and of his future place in the history of literature. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

In all literary history there is scarcely a man about whose life and character hang so peculiar an interest and fascination as about De Quincey. Home Life of Great Authors

Nor was this De Quincey's only, though it was his most precious gift. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)

The dream fugues of De Quincey are delicately imaginative, but p. 33real passion is absent from them. The Vagabond in Literature

De Quincey seemed to fear the idea that there were others of him, distributed throughout time and space, acting as his agents without his explicit command. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. De Quincey's faults we have spoken of in the plural—we ought, perhaps, rather to have used the singular number. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

It is difficult for a matter-of-fact and well-balanced mind to conceive of an experience just like that of De Quincey. Home Life of Great Authors

By his side Leigh Hunt appears affected, De Quincey theatrical, Lamb—let us say discreet. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature

And no veil of phantasy hung at these times between himself and the object of his description, as with De Quincey, muffling the voice and blurring the vision. The Vagabond in Literature

A series of blows levelled the family before De Quincey’s tenth birthday. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

"No thanks to De Quincey for his subtlety—he owes it to opium." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

For all this was gone through, not once, but three times, in the course of De Quincey's life. Home Life of Great Authors

Landor, Hazlitt, Lamb and Moore were at least, and some of them well, past the conventional "coming of age"; De Quincey, Byron and Shelley were boys and even Keats was more than an infant. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing

The first important event in De Quincey’s life was the roaming life on the hillside of North Wales; the second, the wanderings in “stony-hearted Oxford Street.” The Vagabond in Literature

In “Suspiria de Profundis,” De Quincey writes that on the day after her death he sneaked up the back staircase to view her body, laid out in her bedroom: The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Coleridge and De Quincey were great in spite of their habits. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

De Quincey was a very charming companion and a most brilliant talker. Home Life of Great Authors

De Quincey and Hazlitt diverted a good deal of what might have been utilised as mere letter-writing faculty into their very miscellaneous work for publication. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing

But these men were not attracted in the same way as De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature

De Quincey is fixated, instead, on the “solemn wind” that “swept the fields of mortality for a hundred centuries . . . the one sole audible symbol of eternity.” The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Genius and logical perception are De Quincey's principal powers. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

Here that strange being, Thomas De Quincey, came and lived, purposely to be near the poet. Home Life of Great Authors

But I am told that De Quincey has gone out of fashion, with school-boys and others. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing

A faint but palpable veil of phantasy seemed to shut off De Quincey from the outside world. The Vagabond in Literature

But in De Quincey’s case the challenge is even bigger. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Judging from Coleridge's similar practice, we are forced to conclude that it is in De Quincey too—a weakness fostered, if not produced, by long habits of self-indulgence. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

Thomas De Quincey—a man whose genius and diversified and profound acquirements constitute him one of the most remarkable men of the age; and the book quoted in the text is worthy of him. Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1.

After a severe illness during his second year of medicine his mother, says his biographer, presented him with a copy of De Quincey's "Confessions of an Opium Eater." The Hound of Heaven

This confession is a remarkable testimony to the reality of De Quincey’s imaginative life. The Vagabond in Literature

De Quincey resigned after eighteen months, but during his tenure he introduced the use of imaginative fantasias to frame his own travails as a subject worthy of the public eye. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. De Quincey himself was lately urged to collect them. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

However profuse and discursive, De Quincey is always polished, and generally exact—a scholar, a wit, a man of the world and a philosopher, as well as a genius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor"

This would be particularly true of a school-boy who lived near Manchester, De Quincey's own town. The Hound of Heaven

But with all his contempt for phantasy, there was a touch of the dreamer in Carlyle, and the imaginative beauty, apart from the fanciful prettiness in De Quincey’s work, would have appealed to him. The Vagabond in Literature

The music comes to the listener of western birth and mind, as the Malay who knocked among English mountains at De Quincey's door. Music: An Art and a Language

A great history we do not now expect from De Quincey; but he might, produce some, as yet, unwritten life, such as the life of Dante, or of Milton. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

De Quincey fully defined his own position and claim to distinction in the preface to his collected works. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor"

Yet this is the way in which one has to speak of Jeffrey and Hazlitt, of Wilson and De Quincey. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

A prolific writer for the magazines, it is inevitable that there should be a measure that is ephemeral in De Quincey’s voluminous writings. The Vagabond in Literature

Nowhere in the argument does Pope seem to have a firm standing, and De Quincey is not far wrong in saying that it is 'the realization of anarchy.' The Age of Pope (1700-1744)

Indeed, De Quincey's style is one of the most wondrous of his gifts. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

To the appreciation of De Quincey the reader must bring an imaginative faculty somewhat akin to his own—a certain general culture, and large knowledge of books, and men and things. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor"

But if De Quincey had thus attributed to him work that was not his, he has also had the utmost difficulty in getting attributed to him, in any accessible form, work that was his own. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

I do not rate De Quincey’s wit very highly, though it p. 50is agreeably diverting at times, but it was preferable to his humour. The Vagabond in Literature

Southey cared for his books, but Coleridge would cut the leaves of a book with a butter knife, and De Quincey's extraordinary treatment of books is well described by Mr. Burton in the Book Hunter. How to Form a Library, 2nd ed

De Quincey resembles the "noticeable man with large gray eyes." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

It has been complained that, in spite of the apparently full confidences of the Confessions and Autobiographic Sketches, readers are left in comparative ignorance, biographically speaking, of the man De Quincey. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor"

He keeps his eye on the object, which De Quincey seldom does. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

Perhaps he was more witty than humorous; he also had an analytic mind of rarer quality even than De Quincey’s, and his Table Talk is full of delightful flashes. The Vagabond in Literature

Coleridge naturally suggests the name of De Quincey, whose works are as often tantalising as satisfying. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)

De Quincey is a good specimen of the first class. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

The amusements and occupations of the whole family, indeed, seem to have been mainly intellectual; and in De Quincey’s case, emphatically, “the child was father to the man.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor"

Rigmarole, however, can be a very agreeable thing in its way, and De Quincey has carried it to a point of perfection never reached by any other rigmaroler. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

But the comparative absence of humour in De Quincey is another characteristic of Vagabondage. The Vagabond in Literature

But then De Quincey will hardly allow that any man is eloquent except Jeremy Taylor, Sir Thomas Browne, and Thomas De Quincey. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)

Akin to De Quincey's length of sentence, is his ungovernable habit of digression. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

During nearly fifty years De Quincey lived mainly by his pen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor"

And further, it has yet to be proved that De Quincey set down anything in malice. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

And to understand De Quincey aright one must follow him in his multitudinous excursions, not merely rest content with a few fragments of “impassioned prose,” and the avowedly autobiographic writings. The Vagabond in Literature

De Quincey reports the saying of some admiring friend of Hazlitt, who confessed to a shudder whenever Hazlitt used his habitual gesture of placing his hand within his waistcoat. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)

The translation, which was, in fact, a new work, was executed by De Quincey, who, finding the original dull, thought proper to re-write it; and thus, to charge trick upon trick. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

After his works were brought together, De Quincey’s reputation was not merely maintained, but extended. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor"

In not a few respects the literary lot of Thomas De Quincey, both during his life and after it, has been exceedingly peculiar. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

The difference between the editions of De Quincey’s Opium Eater is sufficient to show how the dreams have expanded under popular approbation. The Vagabond in Literature

De Quincey, of course, condemns Hazlitt, as he does Lamb, for a want of 'continuity.' Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)

Thomas De Quincey is the son of a Liverpool merchant. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

It was impossible to deal with or judge De Quincey by ordinary standards—not even his publishers did so. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor"

But I think that De Quincey has in this respect been hardly treated. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

Swagger of this order you will find in the writings even of that quiet, unassuming little man De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature

Take any essay separately, and one must admit that—to speak only of his contemporaries—there is a greater charm in passages of equal length by Lamb, De Quincey, or even Hazlitt. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)

De Quincey's vigor is evenly and equally diffused through his whole being. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

The Essay," says De Quincey, "is a collection of independent maxims tied together into a fasciculus by the printer, but having no natural order or logical dependence; generally so vague as to mean nothing. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer

These persons or their representatives were alive when the Autobiography was published, and would no doubt have protested if De Quincey had not spoken truly. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

There is greater power in Hazlitt; De Quincey is more unique; the “prophetic scream” of Whitman is more penetrating. The Vagabond in Literature

De Quincey's passages of splendid rhetoric are too often succeeded by dead levels of verbosity and laboured puerilities which make annoyance alternate with enthusiasm. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)

So, "What has De Quincey done?" is a question we are now sure to hear, and feel rather afraid to answer. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

The quotation will prove the injustice of De Quincey's attitude to Addison in his Essay on Shakespeare. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare

I not only acquit De Quincey of all serious moral delinquency,—I declare distinctly that no imputation of it was ever intended. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

Well, there it is as glaring and apparent as Borrow’s big green gamp or De Quincey’s insularity. The Vagabond in Literature

De Quincey, who could be an admirable critic where his indolent prejudices were not concerned, is even more dead to the merits of Goethe. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)

No living English writer equals De Quincey in his peculiar department; in acute analytical power, and in the precision with which he uses language. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

Again, De Quincey speaks of Shelley's "fearlessness, his gracious nature, his truth, his purity from all flesh-liness of appetite, his freedom from vanity, his diffusive love and tenderness." Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers."

We know from De Quincey himself that, within a few years, the truth of this famous story was questioned, and that he was accused of having borrowed it from something of Hogg's. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

The “visions” of Jefferies, his moods of emotional exaltation, recall not only the opium dream of De Quincey, but the ecstasies of the old Mystics. The Vagabond in Literature

De Quincey speaks of his indolence as "inconceivable;" and Joseph Cottle relates some amusing instances of his forgetfulness, even of the hour at which he had arranged to deliver a lecture to an assembled audience. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865

Our first is, that, with all his errors, De Quincey has never ceased to believe in Christianity. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

Value in use, or, as Mr. De Quincey calls it, teleologic value, is the extreme limit of value in exchange. Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy

In such cases a critic can only go on internal evidence, and I am sure that the vast majority of critics would decide against most of De Quincey's stories on that. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

This attempt to exalt Jefferies at the expense of De Quincey and Coleridge seems to me unfortunate. The Vagabond in Literature

De Quincey says of it that "it is a thing deader than a door-nail,—which is waiting vainly, and for thousands of years is doomed to wait, for its sister volume, namely, Volume Second." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865

He wondered if Milton, De Quincey, Walter Pater or even Jeremy Taylor had made such sustained music. Melomaniacs

Shade of De Quincey! are we to treat like a vulgar criminal a mistress of the finest of the fine arts? Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories

I doubt very much, though the doubt may seem horribly heretical to some people, whether De Quincey really cared much for poetry as poetry. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

Enough has been said already in the remarks on De Quincey to show that the dreams of De Quincey were no mere opium dreams. The Vagabond in Literature

He revealed this "dominion" to De Quincey "with a deep expression of horror at the hideous bondage." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865

When at last the contest seemed to droop it was only to begin again upon a new issue; and the lists shook beneath the inroad of De Quincey and Macaulay. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History

Audrey is a very genial person; she also, in De Quincey's words, "moves in headlong sympathy and concurrence with spontaneous power." Lover or Friend

The habit is the more curious in that all authorities agree as to the exceptional combination of scholarliness and courtliness which marked De Quincey's colloquial style and expression. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

De Quincey was a born dreamer, and from his earliest days had visions and ecstatic moods. The Vagabond in Literature

A lady of Bristol," writes De Quincey, "assured me she had not seen a young man so engaging in his exterior as Coleridge when young, in 1796. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865

He had not, to use De Quincey's words, drawn that supreme prize in life, "a fine intellect with a healthy stomach," and his whole story testifies to that fact. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History

I have just been reading De Quincey's definition of talent and genius. Lover or Friend

And now I have done enough in the fault-finding way, and nothing shall induce me to say another word of De Quincey in this article save in praise. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

De Quincey loved the shiftless, nomadic life, and gloried in uncertainties and peradventures. The Vagabond in Literature

De Quincey says of it that, by "weeding away from it whatever is colloquial, you would strip it of all that is characteristic"—meaning, I suppose, that the work altogether wants dignity of composition. The Life of Cicero Volume II.

And here it may be well to notice how opportunely, as De Quincey half-ruefully remarked, money always fell in to Wordsworth, enabling him to pursue his poetic career without distraction. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History

De Quincey speaks somewhere of "the awful solitariness of every human soul." The Wit of Women Fourth Edition

They did great things, but De Quincey did, I think, the greatest and certainly the most classical in the proper sense, for all Landor's superior air of Hellenism. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

Nervous instability is very marked in the case of Hazlitt and De Quincey; and there was a strain of morbidity in Borrow, Jefferies, and Stevenson. The Vagabond in Literature

De Quincey pounces upon the above-named error with profoundest satisfaction, and tells us a pleasant little story about an old woman who thought that four million people had been once collected at Caernarvon. The Life of Cicero Volume II.

It is given very fully in Mr. De Quincey's "Literary Recollections of Coleridge" in the first volume of the Boston edition of his Works. Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

I went, as I had promised, at once to the captain, whom I found in his cabin with a volume of De Quincey. Hurricane Island

Voluble as De Quincey often is, he seems always to have felt that when you are in your altitudes it is well not to stay there too long. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

The passion for the Earth which was noted as one of the Vagabond’s characteristics is not so pronounced in Hazlitt and De Quincey as with the later Vagabonds. The Vagabond in Literature

De Quincey thinks that the error is sufficient to throw over all faith in the book: "It is in the light of an evidence against Middleton's good-sense and thoughtfulness that I regard it as capital." The Life of Cicero Volume II.

And Mr. De Quincey, after noticing her good figure, says, "the expression of her countenance was often disagreeable." Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

By chance he spoke for a moment of De Quincey, and a shudder passed through all her being. The New Tenant

In two cases, those of Lockhart and De Quincey, I have thought it best to discuss, in a brief appendix, some questions which have presented themselves since the original publications. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

In Hazlitt’s case there is a touch of wildness, a more primal delight in the roughness and solitude of country places than we find in De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature

That is De Quincey's estimate of Middleton as a biographer. The Life of Cicero Volume II.

Mr. De Quincey afterwards lived in the neighbourhood, dined at the public-house kept by Mary's father, and was waited upon by her. Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

De Quincey's brilliant attempt to elevate it to a place among the fine arts has only enriched its horrors as an abstract idea. The New Tenant

The Review never had any one who could emulate the ornateness of De Quincey or Wilson, the pure and perfect English of Southey, or the inimitable insolence, so polished and so intangible, of Lockhart. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

De Quincey at the close of his long and varied life showed the same tranquil stoicism that had carried him through his many difficulties. The Vagabond in Literature

"The conduct of Cicero in his command was meritorious," says De Quincey. The Life of Cicero Volume II.

The singular beauty of the pleading on both sides has often been noticed, and by the best critics, from Thomas Gray to Thomas De Quincey. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845

De Quincey, in his Confessions of an English Opium Eater, gives a pleasing description of the easy motion and soothing influence of a well-equipped mail-coach running upon an even and kindly road. A Hundred Years by Post A Jubilee Retrospect

But first it is desirable to give, as usual, a brief sketch of De Quincey's life. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

What drew De Quincey to London was its mystery; whereas it was the stir and colour of the crowded streets that p. 38stirred the imagination of the two Charles’s. The Vagabond in Literature

He lived in his pleasant country house at Windermere, never visiting his diocese, and according to De Quincey, talking Socinianism at his table. The English Utilitarians, Volume I.

These smells are of the earth earthy and they led one to dream that night of weird and terrible creatures such as De Quincey paints in his Confessions of an English Opium Eater. The Critic in the Orient

The celebrated De Quincey is led to characterize Lamb's munificence as princely, while Procter, one of his younger friends, simply says, "he gave away greatly." Stories of Authors, British and American

Before those researches "all was mist and myth" about De Quincey. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

One has only to compare the early recorded struggles of Dickens with those of De Quincey to feel the difference between the two temperaments. The Vagabond in Literature

De Quincey's method, after having fixed a definite accepted point of departure, was to link the memory of events to a period made signal by identity of figures. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2

Of course you know De Quincey's paper on the Ratcliffe Highway murderer? The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870

If we are to believe the accounts given of the Jewish Essenes by Josephus, De Quincey thinks, the claims made by Christianity are annihilated. The Sympathy of Religions

Did De Quincey actually call upon the awful Dean Cyril Jackson and affably discuss with him the propriety of entering himself at Christ-church? Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

De Quincey will take some heartfelt episode and deck it out in so elaborate a panoply of rhetoric that the human element seems to have vanished. The Vagabond in Literature

Evidently the editor of Hogg's Instructor was hardly so attracted by these papers as by others of De Quincey's; for we find that he had excised some of the notes. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2

De Quincey testifies that he became a positive bore upon Bell's virtues. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill

It was in Golden Square that De Quincey took leave of Ann, whom he was never to see again. The Strand District The Fascination of London

But it has to be remembered that for all these details we have little security but De Quincey himself. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

For expressing subtle emotions, half shades of thought, no writer is more wonderfully adept than De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature

The 'Anti-Papal Movement' may be taken to attest once more De Quincey's keen interest in all the topics of the day, political, social, and ecclesiastical. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2

The true title of his work should be that which his commentator, De Quincey, afterwards adopted, the Logic of Political Economy. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill

Justifiable as such feelings may be, however, they tend to wrong De Quincey's memory and to limit our conceptions of his character and genius. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

A De Quincey in a world where there was neither reading nor writing of books, would certainly either have committed suicide or gone mad. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

There is no necessity to weigh Wilde’s experiences of “Our Ladies of Sorrow” beside those of De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature

De Quincey was writing professedly for ladies only, and not for scholars; and that his acknowledged leading obstacle was the semi-mythical wilderness of all early oriental history is insisted on with emphasis. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2

De Quincey makes a great point of this doctrine, of which it is not worth while to examine the meaning. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill

Not a single one of the charges can be wholly denied; on analysis De Quincey proves guilty of all these offenses against ideal culture. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

De Quincey himself tried, and made rather a muddle of it. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

And I think there can be no doubt that it is not De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature

Not the dreams that he meant; but royal, purple dreams, that De Quincey could not purchase with his opium; dreams that I would not forego for all the inducements that could be offered. A Confederate Girl's Diary

A new volume of the writings of De Quincey has just been published by Ticknor, Reed & Fields, of Boston. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851

De Quincey was a sophist, a rhetorician, a brilliant talker. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

I can quite conceive De Quincey doing both. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

Certainly De Quincey’s was not the type of mind we should go to for an interpretative criticism of the eighteenth century. The Vagabond in Literature

Now there's De Quincey,—he says, in his outlandish way, that genius is the synthesis of the intellect with the moral nature. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864

Not a few of the critical essays of De Quincey, Macaulay, Carlyle, Arnold, Lowell, and others, have an honorable place in the literature of the English-speaking world. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism

De Quincey shared Dante's rare capacity for retaining strong visual images, his rare power of weaving them into a new and wonderful fabric. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

De Quincey was at once egotistic and impersonal, at once delighted to talk and resolutely shunning society. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

In the first place De Quincey’s humour never seems to me very genuine. The Vagabond in Literature

A striking explanation," said the Critic, "but, you know, De Quincey said practically the same thing more than fifty years ago in his essay on Oliver Goldsmith. Days Off And Other Digressions

Let him determine the percentage of figurative sentences, and compare the results with those obtained from an examination of the prose of Macaulay, Ruskin, Carlyle, De Quincey, Lowell, and other standard writers. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism

De Quincey's latent images are therefore not grotesque or mediæval, not conditioned by any philosophical theory, not of any Inferno or Paradise. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

The quantity of work produced during this singular existence, from the time when De Quincey first began, unusually late, to write for publication, was very large. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

I can see little genuine humour in either Hazlitt or De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature

Yet the sale of 'The Prude of Pimlico' exceeds the sale of the leading novel of De Quincey's day by at least five hundred per cent. Days Off And Other Digressions

For this purpose the teacher might assign Macaulay's "Essay on Milton," De Quincey's "Joan of Arc," Tennyson's "Enoch Arden," Webster's "First Bunker Hill Oration," or some other similar work. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism

The greater part of De Quincey's writings however are historical, critical, and philosophical in character rather than autobiographical; but these are now much neglected. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

I do not see that De Quincey said anything worse of Coleridge than any man who knew the then little, but now well-known facts of Coleridge's life, was entitled to say if he chose. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

Now, in his own way, De Quincey was possibly the most inquisitive of all the Vagabonds. The Vagabond in Literature

Many persons, as De Quincey tells us, of station and influence both lent him money and gave him a sort of countenance equally useful to his interests by placing their sons under his care. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch

Only the other day I saw an autograph letter of De Quincey's,—the opium-eater, you know; it was written to the auctioneer who sold his library. Old Valentines A Love Story

But for all his eccentricities, De Quincey—unlike Poe, for example—is not a possible object for pity or patronage; they would be foolish who could doubt his word or mistrust his motives. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

The Bishop's old housekeeper, who was De Quincey's landlady, told him, it seems, that the Bishop had cautioned her against taking in lodgers whom she did not know, and De Quincey was very angry. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

And this may confidently be said: There is “fundamental brainwork” in every article that De Quincey has written. The Vagabond in Literature

De Quincey would there doubtless have given us under a form more or less fanciful or symbolical his reading of the problem: 'Why Nature out of fifty seeds So often brings but one to bear.' The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1

It seems De Quincey had his son buy a few of the books at his own auction. Old Valentines A Love Story

But De Quincey, though as learned and as acute as Dante, had not Dante's religious and philosophical convictions. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

Swift and Thackeray justify their license by their use of it; De Quincey does not. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

It is curious to contrast the stateliness of De Quincey’s literary style, the elaborate full-dress manner, with the extreme simplicity of the man. The Vagabond in Literature

Phil. here referred to is the Philoleutheros Anglicanus of the essay on 'Protestantism,' as shortened by De Quincey, and with whom De Quincey, in that essay, deals very effectively and wittily on occasion. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1

If De Quincey was an artist, the artistic temperament was a curse. The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly

For De Quincey's range of action and association was not as narrow as might seem. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

De Quincey is, however, first of all a writer of ornate English, which was never, with him, a mere cover to bare thought. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

This bright-eyed Norfolk giant took more kindly to the roughnesses of life than did Hazlitt and De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature

These articles recovered from the MSS. of De Quincey will, the Editor believes, be found of substantive value. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1

In succoring De Quincey we may well think that Anne was repaying something of the debt owed by one of her unhappy class to two of the glories of literature and of humanity. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III

De Quincey was early impressed by the remarkable fashion in which dreams or reveries weave together the separate strands of wakeful existence. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

At any rate the contrast, deliberate or not, is very strong indeed in De Quincey—stronger than in any other prose author except his friend, and pupil rather than master, Wilson. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

“But,” in the words of De Quincey, “no man can be truly great, without at least chequering his life with solitude.” Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States

Editor's Note.—It is evident that De Quincey meditated a much longer essay on anecdotes as false, in which Niccolo Machiavelli would have come in for notice—hence the playful references in the close. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1

Mr. De Quincey is one of the greatest of the elder race of literary men now living in Great Britain, and we believe he is in no very affluent circumstances. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851

The generation that habitually neglects De Quincey has lost little important historical and philosophical information, perhaps, but it has certainly deprived itself of a constant source of entertainment. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

Few indeed are the writers of whom so much can be said, and fewer still the miscellaneous writers, among whom De Quincey must be classed. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

Of notable essays, a high class of literature in which there are many names, may be named Addison, Montaigne, Bacon, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lamb, De Quincey, Holmes, Lowell, etc. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries

After this loss of the greater portion of the 'Suspiria' copy, De Quincey seems to have become indifferent in some degree to their continuity and relation to each other. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1

De Quincey figured that a man might possibly, in a long lifetime devoted to nothing else, read 20,000 volumes. The Booklover and His Books

In this ideal of impassioned prose De Quincey gave to the prose of the latter part of the century its keynote. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

De Quincey on the Society of Friends, 8, 9. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author

De Quincey and Coleridge are two of the best illustrations whom I can recall, while certain analytical character-sifters in modern novels seem the farthest remote from such genial naturalness. Memoirs

We find that De Quincey, in one of his essays, reports the case of an officer holding the rank of lieutenant-colonel who could not tolerate a breakfast without muffins. Pickwickian Manners and Customs

De Quincey, Thomas, on possible amount of reading in a lifetime, 105. The Booklover and His Books

Such a talker, such a writer, was De Quincey. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

It indicates the enormous preference which on the whole Lord Acton gave to the Literature of Knowledge over the Literature of Power, to use De Quincey’s famous distinction. Immortal Memories

It was a bargain, for I found in it in good condition the first American editions of De Quincey’s “Opium-Eater,” “The Rejected Addresses,” and the Poems of Coleridge. Memoirs

The theory is of German origin; but it was presented to the English public by De Quincey, who adorned it with all the persuasiveness of his meretricious genius. The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion

De Quincey found these lines unintelligible, and pulls them about in all directions but the right one. Obiter Dicta Second Series

There are few facts in De Quincey's long career that bear directly on the criticism of his works. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

Milton, in adopting this doctrine, merely followed current belief, and did not, as De Quincey seems to think, hit upon it by a fortunate stroke of genius. Milton

De Quincey was proud of his descent from De la Laund. Memoirs

It may be said without exaggeration that, next to Carlyle’s, De Quincey’s style is the most stimulating and inspiriting that a young reader can find among modern writers. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2

For example, he reprints without comment De Quincey’s absurd strictures on the celebrated lines— ‘Who but must laugh if such a man there be; Who would not weep if Atticus were he!’ Obiter Dicta Second Series

There is scarcely a page in all De Quincey's writings that taken by itself is actually dull. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

The splendid artifice of contrast, noted by De Quincey as one of the subtlest of Milton's devices, is illustrated, perhaps, by both these passages. Milton

De Quincey was a shy, bookish little man, of erratic, nocturnal habits, who impresses one, personally, as a child of genius, with a child's helplessness and a child's sharp observation. Brief History of English and American Literature

De Quincey is perhaps the writer of the most ornate and elaborate English prose of this period. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2

De Quincey had taught him much in the knowledge of hardship. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets

As a stylist De Quincey marked a new ideal in English; that of impassioned prose, as he himself expresses it,—prose which deliberately exalts its subject-matter, as the opera does its. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

These words which I have just quoted are De Quincey’s—whom I must needs esteem the greatest living master of our English tongue. English Past and Present

His volumes were read—as one reads Dickens, or Holmes, or De Quincey—to amuse in leisure hours. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.

His greatest prose work is the Imaginary Conversations; his best poem is Count Julian; and the character of Count Julian has been 348 ranked by De Quincey with the Satan of Milton. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2

The day for their picnic was like unto that described by De Quincey, when "midsummer with all its banners was marching through the sky." Belles and Ringers

And it was really as an opera that De Quincey conceived of the essay. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

This bit of cavilling reminds one of De Quincey's elaborate argument against the lines: Who would not laugh, if such a man there be? Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

I have overcome the world—’ So speaks a gentle voice. p. 65I found here a Number of Tait’s Magazine for August last, containing a paper on Southey, Wordsworth, etc., by De Quincey. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1

De Quincey declared it to be “the most exquisite monument of playful fancy that universal literature offers.” A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2

De Quincey, who of all English critics was believed to know Germany best, and Jeffrey, who exercised the greatest influence on English literary opinion, combined to depreciate or ridicule Goethe. Historical and Political Essays

Like Dante, whose 'Vita Nuova' De Quincey's 'Confessions' greatly resemble in their essential characteristics of method, he had lived from childhood in a world of dreams. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

De Quincey says that precisely the same phenomenon is supposed to make you laugh in one line and weep in the other; and that therefore the thought is inaccurate. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

You seem to think that it is purposely unsatisfactory, or rather dissatisfactory: but it seems to me to proceed from a kind of enervation in De Quincey. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1

Ricardo and De Quincey had independently arrived at the same conclusions on the subject at about the same time. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

You would compare yourself with great imaginative writers, such as Stevenson, Poe, De Quincey, and judge your power of imagination by your ability to produce such tales as made them famous. The Mind and Its Education

These two incidents are a key to the working of De Quincey's mind. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

De Quincey himself gives thanks for four circumstances. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

It is very incomplete, like all De Quincey’s things, but has grand things in it; grand sounds of sense if nothing else. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1

The subjects which De Quincey has critically investigated are very numerous, and it cannot be expected that our limits will permit any exhaustive enumeration of them. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

De Quincey is the authority on mail coaches and for the roof seats he is all fire and enthusiasm. Journeys to Bagdad

De Quincey's visions, however, have the merit of not being forced. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

De Quincey implicitly puts forward a claim which has been accepted by all competent critics. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

In the twelfth volume of the 'Riverside' Edition of De Quincey's works, published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

De Quincey's views on war will doubtless be astounding to most persons who have never given the subject any very particular attention. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

It happened once, to continue with De Quincey, that a state coach was presented by His Majesty George the Third of England, as a gift to the Chinese Emperor. Journeys to Bagdad

There are obvious reasons why De Quincey's historical and philosophical writings, in an age which devotes itself so largely to similar pursuits, no longer recommend themselves to the popular taste. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

And De Quincey, if the comparison be not too quaint, is like the bat, an ambiguous character, rising on the wings of prose to the borders of the true poetical region. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

The titles which follow are those which were given by De Quincey himself to the three Sections.—H. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

Altogether hostile to this idea is the position of De Quincey; he solemnly declares that war neither can be abolished nor ought to be. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

One can well believe, that, as De Quincey said, in the quiet walks after tea the face of the poet "grew solemn and spiritual as any saint's." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865

These failings, from our point of view, are the more to be regretted because there has never been an English essayist more entertaining or suggestive than De Quincey. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

De Quincey, then, announces himself as an impassioned writer, as a writer in impassioned prose, and, finally, as applying impassioned prose to confessions. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

These indicate that De Quincey was here a pretty fair exponent of the growing wrath of the English people. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

According to De Quincey there are four elements: 1st. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

Nor could we, with De Quincey, apostrophize to a certain other excitant, "O just, subtle, and mighty opium! thou boldest the keys of Paradise!" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865

I suppose De Quincey would have been complaisant if the Duke of Wellington had asked him to whistle "Home, Sweet Home" to him. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France

It is in the success with which he produces such effects as these that De Quincey may fairly claim to be unsurpassed in our language. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

The next variety, more rarely used, was especially developed if not actually invented by De Quincey and was called by him impassioned prose. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric

At the age of nine years she suddenly sickened and died; De Quincey, although younger by three years, was overwhelmed with unspeakable agony. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

What convenient little plums, as De Quincey somewhat wistfully remarked, were always being found for Wordsworth just at the psychological moment; and they were not withheld, moreover, until he was full of years and honors. The Joyful Heart

There was something in it at once fateful, trembling, and irresistible, which recalled De Quincey's famous story of The Flight of a Tartar Tribe. Fighting For Peace

And what, we may retort, would Taylor, or Browne, or De Quincey himself, have done, had one of them been wanted to write down the project of Wood's halfpence in Ireland? Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

De Quincey describes riding on the top of a heavy mail-coach. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric

We have said that De Quincey was an eminent master of the historic art. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

De Quincey does not, I believe, carry his reasoning to this result; and I had never seen the argument stated before, as it is in the passages produced by Mr. K., from Aristotle and Plato. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891

De Quincey wrote an essay on the subject. The Simpkins Plot

It would be wrong to invert De Quincey's censure, and blame him because his gorgeous robes are not fitted for more practical purposes. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

De Quincey did not see her face, and hence he speaks in this description of “averted signs?” The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric

In De Quincey's brief sketch of the 'First Rebellion' are found some graphic historical paintings. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

De Quincey, under the influence of the "Circean spells" of opium, was making Blackwood a power in the land. Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities

Of all the English writers Thomas De Quincey must be given the palm for rhythmical prose. Modern English Books of Power

To everything there is a time; for plain English, and for De Quincey's highly-wrought passages. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

Perhaps the only word that jars is “English three-decker”―but the language apparently afforded De Quincey no substitute which would make his meaning clear. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric

But there is still another section of the narrative art, yet more sublime and unapproachable, where De Quincey stands alone—the section in which are recorded his dreams. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

Another interest that was Sharp's, an interest amounting to a passion,—out-of-doors,—De Quincey had not at all, for all his devotion to Wordsworth and to Wordsworth's interests. Irish Plays and Playwrights

Thomas De Quincey From an Old EngravingToList Forty years ago De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater was read by everyone who professed any knowledge of the masters of English literature. Modern English Books of Power

I have only to do with the De Quincey of books which have a singular fascination. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

De Quincey's “impassioned prose” was an attempt on his part to imitate the effects of poetry in prose. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric

De Quincey's habit of dreaming was constitutional, and displayed itself even in infancy. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

It is in such work that Sharp shows his affinities to Poe, affinities which are not elsewhere as obvious as his affinities to De Quincey. Irish Plays and Playwrights

The reader must be warned not to drop De Quincey because of his digressions. Modern English Books of Power

By examining, therefore, the propriety of De Quincey's view of his own place in literature, we shall be naturally led to some valuation of his distinctive merits. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

So every image corresponds to a reality, either in the facts or in De Quincey's emotion at the sight of them. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric

De Quincey's most elaborate dreams are: 'The Daughter of Lebanon,' 'Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow,' 'The Vision of Sudden Death,' and 'Dream Fugue.' Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

The reception which it met with from the public may be gathered from the following letter which accompanied De Quincey’s copy. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle

De Quincey has always impressed me as a fine example of the defects of the English school and college training. Modern English Books of Power

Like other spells, we must reply, it is incommunicable: no real answer can be given even by critics who, like Coleridge and De Quincey,294 show something of the same power. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

De Quincey is so successful because his mind comprehends every detail of the scene, and through the images we see the bottom truth as through a perfect crystal. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric

That gives to De Quincey's style increased power and increased beauty; artistic symmetry is superinduced upon solid excellence. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

We ought to have seen De Quincey's former residence, and Hartley Coleridge's cottage, I believe, on our way, but were not aware of it at the time. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.

De Quincey was a close associate of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Lamb and others. Modern English Books of Power

De Quincey scorns this sneaking maxim of prudence, and boldly challenges our admiration by indulgence in what he often calls 'bravura.' Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

The study of the following selections from Macaulay and De Quincey may be conducted on a plan a trifle different from that heretofore employed. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric

But, over and above all this, in that melody, in that music of style, which exalts prose to the dignity of poetry, De Quincey is absolutely without a rival. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

As a boy he remembered De Quincey at his father's house, and recollected very well reading Mr. Schnackenberger. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

Much of De Quincey's work is now unreadable because it deals with political economy and allied subjects, in which he fancied he was an expert. Modern English Books of Power

The most exquisite passages in De Quincey's writings are all more or less attempts to carry out the idea expressed in the title of the dream fugue. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

De Quincey develops his sensations in witnessing this “vision of sudden death,” and rises step by step to the majestic beauty and poetic passion of the dream-fugue. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric

We do not pretend that De Quincey has yet been awarded by any very general suffrage the foremost position among modern littérateurs; we expect that his popularity will be of slow growth, and never universal. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

One was a painstaking list on the whole, but very inaccurate as regards certain contributions attributed to De Quincey in Blackwood. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

The gorgeous beauty of De Quincey's pictures of these opium visions has probably induced many susceptible readers to make a trial of the drug, with deep disappointment as the result. Modern English Books of Power

Briefly, De Quincey is doing in prose what every great poet does in verse. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

De Quincey's “Dream-Fugue” is as luxuriant and extravagant a use of metaphor as Macaulay's “Puritans” is of the use of antithesis and the balanced structure. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric

But how is the case with De Quincey? Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

Instantly there flashed the thought—what was it that De Quincey recommended? The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

No common mind can hope to have such visions as De Quincey records. Modern English Books of Power

It would be difficult or impossible, and certainly it would be superfluous, to define with any precision the peculiar flavour of De Quincey's style. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

The same method was followed in the study of De Quincey's “English Mail Coach,” with even better results. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric

De Quincey's writings on political economy are partially fragmentary; that is, they do not exhaust the subject as a whole, although thoroughly probing several capital points upon which the entire subject turns. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

Perhaps I will be pardoned this digression, as it affords an opportunity of recording the fact that De Quincey and Southey both looked up to the bull-dog as an animal of very decided 'character.' The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

De Quincey was a dreamer before he became a slave to opium. Modern English Books of Power

De Quincey recollects this, and replies to it in a note. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

With these, in one sense at least, goes De Quincey. The Victorian Age in Literature

We would remark in passing that De Quincey is altogether too captious in his criticisms upon French ideas of war. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

I had a faint recollection that one day De Quincey dwelt on the merits of 'Juno,' and owned the story when he was discussing 'bull-dogs.' The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

Much of the material was gathered from English periodicals, as De Quincey was the greatest magazine writer of his age. Modern English Books of Power

The conception is undoubtedly meritorious, and De Quincey returns to it more than once in his other works. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

But it is hard to connect De Quincey with it; or, indeed, with anything else. The Victorian Age in Literature

But Cousin, in his 'Course of History,' has asserted, even more peremptorily than De Quincey himself, the divine mission of war. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

The facsimile, however, taken for The Archivist, by an expert like Mr. Netherclift, shows that it is, unquestionably, in the handwriting of De Quincey. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

George Saintsbury gives a good sketch of De Quincey in Essays in English Literature. Modern English Books of Power

One may fancy that if De Quincey's language were emptied of all meaning whatever, the mere sound of the words would move us, as the lovely word Mesopotamia moved Whitefield's hearer. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

But De Quincey's sentences, as I have said, have always a dreamy and insecure sense about them, like the turret on toppling turret of some mad sultan's pagoda. The Victorian Age in Literature

It was a chance perusal of this essay that first turned our attention to De Quincey's writings, and we involuntarily exclaimed, as did he when first falling upon Ricardo's work, 'Thou art the man!' Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

The Quarterly Review said:— 'De Quincey's style is superb, his powers of reasoning unsurpassed, his imagination is warm and brilliant, and his humour both masculine and delicate.' The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

He produced his view of himself, as De Quincey did in his “Confessions of an English Opium Eater.” George Borrow The Man and His Books

Wordsworth once uttered an aphorism which De Quincey repeats with great admiration: that language is not, as I have just said, the dress, but 'the incarnation of thought.' Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

Thus certain groups of decadents found it easier to imitate De Quincey's opium than his eloquence. The Victorian Age in Literature

Of this profound distinction De Quincey was the original discoverer. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

I was puzzled by some papers in The London Magazine set down as De Quincey's contributions in a memorandum said to have been furnished by Messrs. Taylor and Hessey, its Publishers. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

Even so, De Quincey suggested as an excuse in his “Confessions” the service possibly to be rendered to other opium-eaters. George Borrow The Man and His Books

I think, however, that all economists would admit that De Quincey's merits were confined to an admirable exposition of another man's reasoning, and included no substantial addition to the inquiry. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

It is of course true that he has never reached or attempted to reach the gorgeous rhapsodies of De Quincey or the dithyrambic melodies of Ruskin. Studies in Early Victorian Literature

In point of style and general method of treating subjects, De Quincey's greatest faults are pedantry and discursiveness. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

As to The Quarterly Review, I have Mr. Murray's authority for stating that De Quincey never wrote a line in it. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

"Do your experiences in any way resemble those recorded by De Quincey?" The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891

De Quincey undertakes to refute Hume's memorable argument against miracles. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

It has the ring and weird mystery of De Quincey. Studies in Early Victorian Literature

These considerations account in part for De Quincey's discursiveness, but perhaps not wholly. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

In this spring and summer De Quincey and I were in intimate companionship. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

You cannot have forgotten what De Quincey has to say on that score. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891

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例句	De Quincey At times her passion for quirks of character diverts her attention from the main thesis, but the lives of people such as De Quincey and Christie are often dramatic or amusing. “The Art of the English Murder” is a great read, but light on historical sources As a writer, De Quincey was dominated and arguably ruined by his habit. A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid Crisis 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z They didn’t take a huge liking to De Quincey. Reading Racist Literature 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z In her exemplary study of De Quincey, the 18th-century writer perhaps best known for his “Confessions of an English Opium Eater,” Wilson looks beyond the fumes. Paperback Row 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z “His sister Jane lived three years,” she writes of De Quincey. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z It was in the fall of 1804 that Thomas De Quincey, a 19-year-old wannabe intellectual, decided to try a little opium for a bad toothache. A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid Crisis 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Nine years ago, the Canadian historian Robert Morrison published a scholarly and engrossing life of England’s second most famous opium eater, Thomas De Quincey. Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights and Britain Becomes Modern 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z When De Quincey published his “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater” 17 years later, his poetic depictions of the wild hallucinations that punctuated his years with the drug transfixed his contemporaries. A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid Crisis 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z It lies in the direct inheritance of the romantic confessional—the Jewish-American offspring of Rousseau and Chateaubriand and De Quincey and Hazlitt, where human truth is the reward of personal egotism. The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The only mystery is why no major writer has chipped in with a memoir to rank with De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater or William Styron's chronicle of depression, Darkness Visible. Why do writers drink? 2013-07-20T07:00:14Z For a class about loss, students read Elizabeth Alexander and Virginia Woolf; for one about “altered states,” Cheryl Strayed and Thomas De Quincey. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Professor Ward wrote introductions to editions of William Blake and Thomas De Quincey and edited a collection of Keats’s poems. Aileen Ward, Scholar and Biographer, Dies at 97 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z De Quincey had wonderful ideas he could never remember, often scribbled down on pieces of paper he could never find. A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid Crisis 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Earlier this year, I assigned Thomas De Quincey’s “Confessions of an English Opium Eater” in my nonfiction-writing class at Baruch College, part of the City University of New York. Reading Racist Literature 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Best of all, he loves writers who craft sentences crooked with clauses, like Thomas Browne and Thomas De Quincey. Celebrating Strange Faces, Gorgeous Sentences and Circular Prose 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Another volume has De Quincey’s “The Spanish Military Nun,” whose title has always intrigued me. John Ashbery: By the Book 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Karl Marx lived in Soho, as did Thomas De Quincey, author of “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater”. Silence shrouds London's deserted midnight party land 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z In the 19th century, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas De Quincey wrote freely about their use of opium, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning referred to a mixture of morphine and ether as “my elixir.” Where Have All the Artist-Addicts Gone? 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z His friend Charles Lamb called him “a cracked archangel”, while his fellow drug addict Thomas De Quincey would defend his poetic experimentalism. Why Willem Dafoe, Iggy Pop and more are reading The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to us 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Unsentimental and precise, he reckons with a past simultaneously vanished and all too present, drawing inventively on Proust, Nabokov, De Quincey, and St. Augustine. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Fact and fiction blend effortlessly as De Quincey and his daughter Emily search for the culprit. ‘Ruler of the Night’ transports readers to Victorian London 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z De Quincey was happiest when he was chipping away at the sublime, volume by volume or vision by vision, and his happiness was always dangerously leveraged. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Thomas De Quincey, a real-life writer of the era, is a fictitious sleuth in the story, but the novel’s real star is “the revenger.” Review: ‘Inspector of the Dead” is masterful work 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z De Quincey said if he were to live in China, he should go mad. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z De Quincey's distinction between the literature of knowledge and that of power is our line of demarkation. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z For me, he simply turned into superior "journalism" the ideas of Swinburne, Pater, Flaubert, Huysmans, De Quincey, and others. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z De Quincey’s writing often boils down trauma to its core variables—a window, a dead body, summer—so as to make the experience repeatable, both for him and for his readers. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z This is partly the reason, yet De Quincey and Edgar Allan Poe inspire no such aversion. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Such a volume then may, if any, claim to belong to what De Quincey called the literature of power as distinct from that of mere information. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z One can readily sympathise with the melancholy of a man who, after reading De Quincey, Macaulay, Addison, Lamb, Pater, and Stevenson, found that literary style was still a mystery to him. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z Lodging at some place, De Quincey took affront at something said by a landlady, and abruptly left his quarters. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z When, on November 4, 1807, De Quincey finally met Wordsworth, near his front door, the poet appeared “like a flash of lightning,” as De Quincey put it. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z De Quincey has said that the book is equally divided between “empty truisms and time-serving Dutch falsehoods.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Solitude, too, that twin-sister of Silence, “though,” as De Quincey says, “it may be silent as light, is, like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man.” Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z White Gill, in Langdale, Westmorland, nearly at the back of the inn at Millbeck, derives its chief interest from the loss of the two Greens there, so graphically described by De Quincey. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z Mather suggests Milton, Irving suggests Addison, Emerson suggests Carlyle, Poe, shall we say, is often the too conscious workman typified by De Quincey. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z Romanticism wasn’t a term in broad use in England when De Quincey began writing. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z It was the day after Croucher's introduction to De Quincey and the first bad night spent by anybody in the Chamber of Peace. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z De Quincey has noted how such cries may make a deeper mark on the soul than any visible scene. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Thomas De Quincey sang in most glowing speech the glories of the English mail-coach. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z De Quincey said he never offered to carry a lady's shawl; hardly offered a hand to help her over a stile. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z In 1805, while a student at Oxford, De Quincey again resolved to meet his hero, with whom he had now been exchanging letters. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z "A very fair artist, too," rejoined the disciple of De Quincey. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z Can any man turned fifty truthfully declare that he wishes De Quincey had left thirty volumes behind him instead of fifteen? Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z De Quincey would describe Spanish beggary as having become elevated to one of the fine arts. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z De Quincey says, "It is the most exquisite monument of playful fancy that universal literature offers." English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z It is hard to know exactly what De Quincey wanted from Wordsworth, but, whatever it was, it seems clear that he could tell from the start he wouldn’t be getting it. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Even De Quincey, Ruskin, and others from among our best English writers, subscribe to this monstrous doctrine, and it is true that there is plenty of support for it in history. Teaching the Child Patriotism 2011-07-03T02:00:11.747Z De Quincey, taking his thousand drops of laudanum a day, represents one of the most encouraging examples of this since he succeeded eventually in breaking away from his habit. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Strange to say, De Quincey, in an explanatory note to Lessing's observations, also overlooks the movement of water broken by rocks, though he refers specially to landscape painting. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z There De Quincey bowed and smiled, while interposing his mild but terrible and unanswerable "buts," and winding the subtle way of his talk through all subjects, human, infernal, and divine. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z These dramas were De Quincey’s specialty, and were certainly reënactments of his childhood. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z It is fair to add that twelve years later De Quincey went a good way in recantation of this outburst. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z He literally identified himself with De Quincey and Poe, translating them so wonderfully well that some unpatriotic persons like the French better than the originals. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Compare him with De Quincey or with Ruskin. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Indeed he hadn't said a word except that the Haymarket story was the finest piece of English prose since De Quincey. The Boy Grew Older 2011-05-10T02:01:01.027Z The first half of De Quincey’s life is a long and convoluted story. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z It was these and such like technical liberties with language which scandalized conservative critics, and caused even De Quincey, becoming tardily acquainted with Keats’s work, to dislike and utterly under-rate it. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z To him, as to De Quincey, a sister brought the idea of mortality. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Others, like De Quincey, have rivalled, and perhaps equalled his best passages. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Nor should we forget De Quincey, who spent twenty of the happiest years of his life at Dove Cottage, as the successor of the Wordsworths. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z That idea was easily internalized, and brought together in one heroic quest De Quincey’s opium visions and the writing that he concocted to describe them. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z There is a class of English writers to whom the descriptive term essayist is applied, the most illustrious being Addison, Steele, Charles Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Macaulay, Carlyle, Froude, Matthew Arnold, R. L. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z He was an ardent defender of the Rosicrucians, and De Quincey considers him to have been the immediate, as J.V. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z But excellent passages in De Quincey are much rarer than in Ruskin. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z But it is De Quincey who gives the best statement of the world’s obligation to Dorothy. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z De Quincey beheld, in the “theatre” of his mind, along with “more than earthly splendours,” horrors beyond belief: “vast processions” of “mournful pomp,” and “friezes of never-ending stories” as terrifying as Greek tragedies. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z De Quincey, that admirable artist, that searcher into secrets and master of mysteries, has described my pains for me under the figure of the Opium Eater breaking the bonds of his vice. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z On the road which skirts Rydal Water is Nab Cottage, forever associated with De Quincey and poor Hartley Coleridge. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z A friend was talking to Wordsworth of De Quincey's articles about him. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z De Quincey’s contention that there were no Essenes but the early Christians is now a literary curiosity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z De Quincey is a special case, since he experienced subjective impressions as though they were real and wrote about them as though their reality could be conveyed, in all its Technicolor wonder and horror. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z De Quincey does not hesitate for a moment in deciding as to the identity between Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry. Mysteries of the Rosie Cross Or, the History of that Curious Sect of the Middle Ages, Known as the Rosicrucians; with Examples of their Pretensions and Claims as Set Forth in the Writings of Their Leaders and Disciples 2011-02-23T03:00:32.190Z Of its many famous characters, the names of De Quincey and Harrison Ainsworth are perhaps the best known in literature. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z Amongst modern prose writers, De Quincey is his only true rival in musical sensibility to words. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z De Quincey included under the literature of power, prose as well as verse, fairy tales and romances as well as tragedies and epic poems. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z De Quincey answered, “In carpentry it is clear to my mind that it could not.” The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Nay, it is interesting to note that Coleridge and De Quincey, two main agents of the "renascence of wonder" at the beginning of the nineteenth century, were both practised logicians. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z Very soon De Quincey made a fourth in this remarkable group. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z In one of his most entertaining essays, De Quincey points out that, when the intellect sets itself up in opposition to the feelings, one should always trust to the feelings. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z By the literature of power De Quincey meant all literature except science. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z It would “never end,” De Quincey reasoned, since by the time “all the one-legged commodores and yellow admirals” of one generation had finished, “another generation would have grown another crop of the same gallant spinners.” The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z But in this month of April thirty-five years ago I thought little of De Quincey or of his visions. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z He has with excellent judgment given us somewhat of autobiography, somewhat of the rare and indescribable dream life of De Quincey, and somewhat of his tales, essays, and critiques. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z All this bears out De Quincey's saying that only a man of extraordinary talent can write nonsense. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z It would include chiefly the impassioned prose and prose phantasies of De Quincey's own work. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Motionlessness is not peace of mind, but De Quincey, who struggled his entire life to find a comfortable way to inhabit time, had good reason to prize it. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z I will be more curious than De Quincey: no mere bitter wind or frost, not even snow will serve my turn, though each of these has its admirable uses. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z What he has given us is not all of De Quincey, but each chapter is complete in itself. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z Such also were Defoe and De Quincey, two men of widely different gifts, but with rare power of moving men's souls. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z De Quincey was no art-for-art's-sake man, and he recognized the importance of the rational and the moral element in the sphere of the literature of power. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z De Quincey knew, as one scholar put it, “how one thing has a bearing on another,” and so does Wilson. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z All realism is unpopular, and De Quincey was eminently a realist. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z —The peculiar character of De Quincey's work gives unusual opportunity for such a volume of selections as this, published under the untasteful name of "Beauties." The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z I remembered the anecdote that De Quincey tells, about Sheridan and the young member who quoted Greek. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z In speaking of the literature of ecstasy, something should be said about De Quincey's famous distinction of the literature of knowledge and the literature of power. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Long before he tried opium, Thomas De Quincey, the English essayist, was addicted to books. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z It was the place where I had bought my copy of "De Quincey" some years earlier, and is now sacred to me on that account. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z De Quincey declared: "Next to the Bible in European publicity and currency this book came forward as an answer to the sighing of Christian Europe for light from heaven." The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z De Quincey, the famous opium-eater, records dreams of ten to sixty years’ supernatural duration, and some quite beyond all limits of the waking experience. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z And how can you on any pretence refuse to include in the category of poetry De Quincey's famous prose poems The Dream Fugue and Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow? The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Among the books De Quincey acquired, there was a history of Britain, expected to grow in time to “sixty or eighty parts.” The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z It always vexes me to detect, as I constantly do detect in modern critics, the subtle desire to run down De Quincey. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z In the Confessions of an Opium Eater, Thomas De Quincey tells how he was chased through his nightmares by a cursed crocodile. The Spin 2010-08-24T09:44:00Z A son of De Quincey in his graduation thesis humorously supported Professor Simpson. Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine The question is, what relation is there between De Quincey's idea of the literature of power and that of the literature of ecstasy. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z De Quincey’s father, then a prosperous merchant, died just a year after Elizabeth; soon, his loathed older brother, William, who was eleven, returned from boarding school. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z And another event of like importance was my seeing De Quincey's "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" at Pontypool Road Station. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z They have made a careful study of the business; they have elevated it, as De Quincey would say, to the dignity of a fine art. The Story of Malta If only De Quincey had realized the possibility of absinthe, he would have given us jewelled prose indeed.” The Missioner He also recommends the would-be practitioners of free verse to study the prose rhythms of men like Pater and De Quincey. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z William was known for all manner of household torments, some directed at the pets—he “had succeeded,” De Quincey wrote, “at bringing down cats by parachutes”—and Wilson writes that he “despised” Thomas. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z In his younger days he seems to have been as much devoted to the opera as ever De Quincey was. Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work Here we have De Quincey at his best. The Speech of Monkeys For an interesting comparison between opium and alcohol, we may refer our readers to De Quincey’s Confessions of an Opium Eater. A Vindication of England's Policy with Regard to the Opium Trade If the papers on Hazlitt and De Quincey are more fragmentary than the others, it is because these writers have been already discussed by the author in a previous volume. The Vagabond in Literature Mrs. De Quincey soon moved the family to Bath, the “fine and striking” spa town where Jane Austen set “Northanger Abbey,” and rented a prominent house whose most recent occupant had been Edmund Burke. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Besides which, in his later years, he was fascinated by the descriptions of Welsh scenery given in Borrow's "Wild Wales," and De Quincey's "Wanderings in Wales." Lafcadio Hearn Few works of greater literary interest have of late years issued from the press than the two volumes of 'De Quincey Memorials.' The Speech of Monkeys De Quincey, Thomas, quoted on Coleridge's reading, 12. The Voice and Spiritual Education Thus it is we find in the same spiritual brotherhood men so different in genius and character as Hazlitt, De Quincey, Thoreau, Whitman, Borrow, Jefferies, Stevenson. The Vagabond in Literature Soon De Quincey, now around fourteen, made his own discovery: the anonymous manuscript copy of Wordsworth’s ballad “We Are Seven,” then making its way around Bath. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z De Quincey's essay, "On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts," owes its reputation for humour to the same kind of unexpectedness in its table of values. The Book of This and That It is the last word on a great subject; all we can hope to add is some baleful illustration or blood-stained footnote, not unworthy of De Quincey's text. A Thief in the Night Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and Cracksman And even impassioned prose, like some of De Quincey's, for example, must be read, more or less, in time. The Voice and Spiritual Education There was a man whose habits of life were pleasantly Bohemian, and whose sympathy with the Vagabond temperament has made some critics over-hastily class him temperamentally with writers like Hazlitt and De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature De Quincey’s life, like that of Beckett’s Krapp, was fundamentally the record he kept of it, and that record owes its existence and its brilliance to the drug that all but destroyed him. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Coleridge is dead—but De Quincey is alive. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Was it not De Quincey that had a horror of the Chinese—of their inhumaneness and their inscrutability? From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel The outposts of France, as one may call the great frontier provinces," De Quincey says, "were of all localities the most devoted to the Fleurs de Lys. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) Hazlitt, on the other hand, was a genuine digressionalist; so was De Quincey; so was Borrow. The Vagabond in Literature These ironies were not lost on De Quincey: they fed his imagination. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z De Quincey was of the same age as Wordsworth. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth De Quincey, Collected Essays 340 79. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time Never from the foundations of the earth," says De Quincey, "was there such a trial as this, if it were laid open in all its beauty of defence and all its hellishness of attack. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) And the era which started with a De Quincey closed with a Stevenson. The Vagabond in Literature There were familiar disputes about whether De Quincey was corrupting the young, but the main intoxicant on display was his prose, which derived its power from being written in the grip of its subject. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The alteration is an example of the justice of De Quincey's observation that "the Arcadia of Pope's age was the spurious Arcadia of the opera theatre." The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition De Quincey, in his essay on “Modern Superstition,” says that this belief is coextensive with Christendom. Folk-lore of Shakespeare On a visit to Somersetshire in 1807 he met De Quincey for the first time, and the younger man’s admiration was shown by a gift of �300, “from an unknown friend.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Hazlitt, like De Quincey, had felt the glamour of the city as well as the glamour of the country; not with the irresistibility of Lamb, but for all that potently. The Vagabond in Literature For De Quincey, a complex identification with Wordsworth began, tantalizingly, even before he had heard the man’s name. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z It must appear strange," says De Quincey, "that Pope at twenty-one should choose to come forward for the first time with a work composed at sixteen. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition De Quincey seems to have been lowest in his estimation. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. Probably more boys have in the last forty years been brought to a love of literature proper by De Quincey than by any other writer whatever. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) But an instinct for the open, the craving for pleasant spaces, and the longing of the hard-driven journalist for the gracious leisure of the country, these things were paramount with both Hazlitt and De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature De Quincey, by then renting Dove Cottage after Wordsworth’s departure, was abject. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z De Quincey, on the other hand, had read it, and both in his writings and conversation, was in the habit of alluding to, quoting, and panegyrizing it as more than equal to Wordsworth's other achievements. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 De Quincey said of him, ‘he wanted better bread than can be made with wheat.’ English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Wilson, impatient in everything, had fluctuated between grandeur and galimatias, bathos and bad taste; De Quincey, at times supreme, had at others simply succumbed to "rigmarole." A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Outwardly, neither the lives of Hazlitt nor De Quincey were what we would call happy. The Vagabond in Literature The grief led to stomach pains; the stomach pains, De Quincey said, “yielded to no remedies but opium.” The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Common party divisions represented nothing scientific to his mind; and he was willing, like De Quincey, to accept them as corresponding halves of a necessary whole. The History of Freedom The best likeness of him, in De Quincey’s judgement, is the portrait of Milton prefixed to Richardson’s notes on Paradise Lost. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Hannah More, once a substantially famous person in literature, is now chiefly remembered by her association with great men of letters, such as Johnson in her youth, Macaulay and De Quincey in her old age. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Comparing the styles of Hazlitt and De Quincey, one is struck with the greater fire and vigour of Hazlitt. The Vagabond in Literature But De Quincey’s opium use now passed the point of no return, peaking at a rate of approximately four hundred and eighty grains per day, or twelve thousand drops of laudanum. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z It is De Quincey in opium—not opium in De Quincey—that ponders and that writes. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. Said Dr. Johnson: “Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind from China to Peru,” which, De Quincey or Tennyson declared, should have run: “Let observation with extended observation observe mankind extensively.” The So-called Human Race Of this there was some even in De Quincey's own collection, and the proportion has been much increased since. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Indeed, the term which De Quincey applied to certain of his writings—“impassioned prose”—is really more applicable to many of Hazlitt’s essays. The Vagabond in Literature It was swallowed in the form of pills or dissolved in alcohol to make laudanum, the tincture preferred by De Quincey. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z We would speak of De Quincey's history, of his faults, of his genius, of his works, and of his future place in the history of literature. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. In all literary history there is scarcely a man about whose life and character hang so peculiar an interest and fascination as about De Quincey. Home Life of Great Authors Nor was this De Quincey's only, though it was his most precious gift. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) The dream fugues of De Quincey are delicately imaginative, but p. 33real passion is absent from them. The Vagabond in Literature De Quincey seemed to fear the idea that there were others of him, distributed throughout time and space, acting as his agents without his explicit command. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Mr. De Quincey's faults we have spoken of in the plural—we ought, perhaps, rather to have used the singular number. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. It is difficult for a matter-of-fact and well-balanced mind to conceive of an experience just like that of De Quincey. Home Life of Great Authors By his side Leigh Hunt appears affected, De Quincey theatrical, Lamb—let us say discreet. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature And no veil of phantasy hung at these times between himself and the object of his description, as with De Quincey, muffling the voice and blurring the vision. The Vagabond in Literature A series of blows levelled the family before De Quincey’s tenth birthday. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z "No thanks to De Quincey for his subtlety—he owes it to opium." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. For all this was gone through, not once, but three times, in the course of De Quincey's life. Home Life of Great Authors Landor, Hazlitt, Lamb and Moore were at least, and some of them well, past the conventional "coming of age"; De Quincey, Byron and Shelley were boys and even Keats was more than an infant. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing The first important event in De Quincey’s life was the roaming life on the hillside of North Wales; the second, the wanderings in “stony-hearted Oxford Street.” The Vagabond in Literature In “Suspiria de Profundis,” De Quincey writes that on the day after her death he sneaked up the back staircase to view her body, laid out in her bedroom: The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Coleridge and De Quincey were great in spite of their habits. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. De Quincey was a very charming companion and a most brilliant talker. Home Life of Great Authors De Quincey and Hazlitt diverted a good deal of what might have been utilised as mere letter-writing faculty into their very miscellaneous work for publication. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing But these men were not attracted in the same way as De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature De Quincey is fixated, instead, on the “solemn wind” that “swept the fields of mortality for a hundred centuries . . . the one sole audible symbol of eternity.” The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Genius and logical perception are De Quincey's principal powers. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. Here that strange being, Thomas De Quincey, came and lived, purposely to be near the poet. Home Life of Great Authors But I am told that De Quincey has gone out of fashion, with school-boys and others. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing A faint but palpable veil of phantasy seemed to shut off De Quincey from the outside world. The Vagabond in Literature But in De Quincey’s case the challenge is even bigger. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Judging from Coleridge's similar practice, we are forced to conclude that it is in De Quincey too—a weakness fostered, if not produced, by long habits of self-indulgence. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. Thomas De Quincey—a man whose genius and diversified and profound acquirements constitute him one of the most remarkable men of the age; and the book quoted in the text is worthy of him. Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. After a severe illness during his second year of medicine his mother, says his biographer, presented him with a copy of De Quincey's "Confessions of an Opium Eater." The Hound of Heaven This confession is a remarkable testimony to the reality of De Quincey’s imaginative life. The Vagabond in Literature De Quincey resigned after eighteen months, but during his tenure he introduced the use of imaginative fantasias to frame his own travails as a subject worthy of the public eye. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Mr. De Quincey himself was lately urged to collect them. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. However profuse and discursive, De Quincey is always polished, and generally exact—a scholar, a wit, a man of the world and a philosopher, as well as a genius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" This would be particularly true of a school-boy who lived near Manchester, De Quincey's own town. The Hound of Heaven But with all his contempt for phantasy, there was a touch of the dreamer in Carlyle, and the imaginative beauty, apart from the fanciful prettiness in De Quincey’s work, would have appealed to him. The Vagabond in Literature The music comes to the listener of western birth and mind, as the Malay who knocked among English mountains at De Quincey's door. Music: An Art and a Language A great history we do not now expect from De Quincey; but he might, produce some, as yet, unwritten life, such as the life of Dante, or of Milton. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. De Quincey fully defined his own position and claim to distinction in the preface to his collected works. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Yet this is the way in which one has to speak of Jeffrey and Hazlitt, of Wilson and De Quincey. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 A prolific writer for the magazines, it is inevitable that there should be a measure that is ephemeral in De Quincey’s voluminous writings. The Vagabond in Literature Nowhere in the argument does Pope seem to have a firm standing, and De Quincey is not far wrong in saying that it is 'the realization of anarchy.' The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Indeed, De Quincey's style is one of the most wondrous of his gifts. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. To the appreciation of De Quincey the reader must bring an imaginative faculty somewhat akin to his own—a certain general culture, and large knowledge of books, and men and things. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" But if De Quincey had thus attributed to him work that was not his, he has also had the utmost difficulty in getting attributed to him, in any accessible form, work that was his own. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 I do not rate De Quincey’s wit very highly, though it p. 50is agreeably diverting at times, but it was preferable to his humour. The Vagabond in Literature Southey cared for his books, but Coleridge would cut the leaves of a book with a butter knife, and De Quincey's extraordinary treatment of books is well described by Mr. Burton in the Book Hunter. How to Form a Library, 2nd ed De Quincey resembles the "noticeable man with large gray eyes." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. It has been complained that, in spite of the apparently full confidences of the Confessions and Autobiographic Sketches, readers are left in comparative ignorance, biographically speaking, of the man De Quincey. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" He keeps his eye on the object, which De Quincey seldom does. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Perhaps he was more witty than humorous; he also had an analytic mind of rarer quality even than De Quincey’s, and his Table Talk is full of delightful flashes. The Vagabond in Literature Coleridge naturally suggests the name of De Quincey, whose works are as often tantalising as satisfying. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) De Quincey is a good specimen of the first class. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. The amusements and occupations of the whole family, indeed, seem to have been mainly intellectual; and in De Quincey’s case, emphatically, “the child was father to the man.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Rigmarole, however, can be a very agreeable thing in its way, and De Quincey has carried it to a point of perfection never reached by any other rigmaroler. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 But the comparative absence of humour in De Quincey is another characteristic of Vagabondage. The Vagabond in Literature But then De Quincey will hardly allow that any man is eloquent except Jeremy Taylor, Sir Thomas Browne, and Thomas De Quincey. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Akin to De Quincey's length of sentence, is his ungovernable habit of digression. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. During nearly fifty years De Quincey lived mainly by his pen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" And further, it has yet to be proved that De Quincey set down anything in malice. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 And to understand De Quincey aright one must follow him in his multitudinous excursions, not merely rest content with a few fragments of “impassioned prose,” and the avowedly autobiographic writings. The Vagabond in Literature De Quincey reports the saying of some admiring friend of Hazlitt, who confessed to a shudder whenever Hazlitt used his habitual gesture of placing his hand within his waistcoat. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The translation, which was, in fact, a new work, was executed by De Quincey, who, finding the original dull, thought proper to re-write it; and thus, to charge trick upon trick. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. After his works were brought together, De Quincey’s reputation was not merely maintained, but extended. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" In not a few respects the literary lot of Thomas De Quincey, both during his life and after it, has been exceedingly peculiar. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The difference between the editions of De Quincey’s Opium Eater is sufficient to show how the dreams have expanded under popular approbation. The Vagabond in Literature De Quincey, of course, condemns Hazlitt, as he does Lamb, for a want of 'continuity.' Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Thomas De Quincey is the son of a Liverpool merchant. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. It was impossible to deal with or judge De Quincey by ordinary standards—not even his publishers did so. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" But I think that De Quincey has in this respect been hardly treated. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Swagger of this order you will find in the writings even of that quiet, unassuming little man De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature Take any essay separately, and one must admit that—to speak only of his contemporaries—there is a greater charm in passages of equal length by Lamb, De Quincey, or even Hazlitt. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) De Quincey's vigor is evenly and equally diffused through his whole being. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. The Essay," says De Quincey, "is a collection of independent maxims tied together into a fasciculus by the printer, but having no natural order or logical dependence; generally so vague as to mean nothing. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer These persons or their representatives were alive when the Autobiography was published, and would no doubt have protested if De Quincey had not spoken truly. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 There is greater power in Hazlitt; De Quincey is more unique; the “prophetic scream” of Whitman is more penetrating. The Vagabond in Literature De Quincey's passages of splendid rhetoric are too often succeeded by dead levels of verbosity and laboured puerilities which make annoyance alternate with enthusiasm. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) So, "What has De Quincey done?" is a question we are now sure to hear, and feel rather afraid to answer. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. The quotation will prove the injustice of De Quincey's attitude to Addison in his Essay on Shakespeare. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare I not only acquit De Quincey of all serious moral delinquency,—I declare distinctly that no imputation of it was ever intended. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Well, there it is as glaring and apparent as Borrow’s big green gamp or De Quincey’s insularity. The Vagabond in Literature De Quincey, who could be an admirable critic where his indolent prejudices were not concerned, is even more dead to the merits of Goethe. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) No living English writer equals De Quincey in his peculiar department; in acute analytical power, and in the precision with which he uses language. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. Again, De Quincey speaks of Shelley's "fearlessness, his gracious nature, his truth, his purity from all flesh-liness of appetite, his freedom from vanity, his diffusive love and tenderness." Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." We know from De Quincey himself that, within a few years, the truth of this famous story was questioned, and that he was accused of having borrowed it from something of Hogg's. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The “visions” of Jefferies, his moods of emotional exaltation, recall not only the opium dream of De Quincey, but the ecstasies of the old Mystics. The Vagabond in Literature De Quincey speaks of his indolence as "inconceivable;" and Joseph Cottle relates some amusing instances of his forgetfulness, even of the hour at which he had arranged to deliver a lecture to an assembled audience. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 Our first is, that, with all his errors, De Quincey has never ceased to believe in Christianity. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. Value in use, or, as Mr. De Quincey calls it, teleologic value, is the extreme limit of value in exchange. Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy In such cases a critic can only go on internal evidence, and I am sure that the vast majority of critics would decide against most of De Quincey's stories on that. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 This attempt to exalt Jefferies at the expense of De Quincey and Coleridge seems to me unfortunate. The Vagabond in Literature De Quincey says of it that "it is a thing deader than a door-nail,—which is waiting vainly, and for thousands of years is doomed to wait, for its sister volume, namely, Volume Second." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 He wondered if Milton, De Quincey, Walter Pater or even Jeremy Taylor had made such sustained music. Melomaniacs Shade of De Quincey! are we to treat like a vulgar criminal a mistress of the finest of the fine arts? Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories I doubt very much, though the doubt may seem horribly heretical to some people, whether De Quincey really cared much for poetry as poetry. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Enough has been said already in the remarks on De Quincey to show that the dreams of De Quincey were no mere opium dreams. The Vagabond in Literature He revealed this "dominion" to De Quincey "with a deep expression of horror at the hideous bondage." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 When at last the contest seemed to droop it was only to begin again upon a new issue; and the lists shook beneath the inroad of De Quincey and Macaulay. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History Audrey is a very genial person; she also, in De Quincey's words, "moves in headlong sympathy and concurrence with spontaneous power." Lover or Friend The habit is the more curious in that all authorities agree as to the exceptional combination of scholarliness and courtliness which marked De Quincey's colloquial style and expression. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 De Quincey was a born dreamer, and from his earliest days had visions and ecstatic moods. The Vagabond in Literature A lady of Bristol," writes De Quincey, "assured me she had not seen a young man so engaging in his exterior as Coleridge when young, in 1796. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 He had not, to use De Quincey's words, drawn that supreme prize in life, "a fine intellect with a healthy stomach," and his whole story testifies to that fact. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History I have just been reading De Quincey's definition of talent and genius. Lover or Friend And now I have done enough in the fault-finding way, and nothing shall induce me to say another word of De Quincey in this article save in praise. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 De Quincey loved the shiftless, nomadic life, and gloried in uncertainties and peradventures. The Vagabond in Literature De Quincey says of it that, by "weeding away from it whatever is colloquial, you would strip it of all that is characteristic"—meaning, I suppose, that the work altogether wants dignity of composition. The Life of Cicero Volume II. And here it may be well to notice how opportunely, as De Quincey half-ruefully remarked, money always fell in to Wordsworth, enabling him to pursue his poetic career without distraction. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History De Quincey speaks somewhere of "the awful solitariness of every human soul." The Wit of Women Fourth Edition They did great things, but De Quincey did, I think, the greatest and certainly the most classical in the proper sense, for all Landor's superior air of Hellenism. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Nervous instability is very marked in the case of Hazlitt and De Quincey; and there was a strain of morbidity in Borrow, Jefferies, and Stevenson. The Vagabond in Literature De Quincey pounces upon the above-named error with profoundest satisfaction, and tells us a pleasant little story about an old woman who thought that four million people had been once collected at Caernarvon. The Life of Cicero Volume II. It is given very fully in Mr. De Quincey's "Literary Recollections of Coleridge" in the first volume of the Boston edition of his Works. Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc I went, as I had promised, at once to the captain, whom I found in his cabin with a volume of De Quincey. Hurricane Island Voluble as De Quincey often is, he seems always to have felt that when you are in your altitudes it is well not to stay there too long. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The passion for the Earth which was noted as one of the Vagabond’s characteristics is not so pronounced in Hazlitt and De Quincey as with the later Vagabonds. The Vagabond in Literature De Quincey thinks that the error is sufficient to throw over all faith in the book: "It is in the light of an evidence against Middleton's good-sense and thoughtfulness that I regard it as capital." The Life of Cicero Volume II. And Mr. De Quincey, after noticing her good figure, says, "the expression of her countenance was often disagreeable." Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc By chance he spoke for a moment of De Quincey, and a shudder passed through all her being. The New Tenant In two cases, those of Lockhart and De Quincey, I have thought it best to discuss, in a brief appendix, some questions which have presented themselves since the original publications. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 In Hazlitt’s case there is a touch of wildness, a more primal delight in the roughness and solitude of country places than we find in De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature That is De Quincey's estimate of Middleton as a biographer. The Life of Cicero Volume II. Mr. De Quincey afterwards lived in the neighbourhood, dined at the public-house kept by Mary's father, and was waited upon by her. Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc De Quincey's brilliant attempt to elevate it to a place among the fine arts has only enriched its horrors as an abstract idea. The New Tenant The Review never had any one who could emulate the ornateness of De Quincey or Wilson, the pure and perfect English of Southey, or the inimitable insolence, so polished and so intangible, of Lockhart. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 De Quincey at the close of his long and varied life showed the same tranquil stoicism that had carried him through his many difficulties. The Vagabond in Literature "The conduct of Cicero in his command was meritorious," says De Quincey. The Life of Cicero Volume II. The singular beauty of the pleading on both sides has often been noticed, and by the best critics, from Thomas Gray to Thomas De Quincey. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 De Quincey, in his Confessions of an English Opium Eater, gives a pleasing description of the easy motion and soothing influence of a well-equipped mail-coach running upon an even and kindly road. A Hundred Years by Post A Jubilee Retrospect But first it is desirable to give, as usual, a brief sketch of De Quincey's life. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 What drew De Quincey to London was its mystery; whereas it was the stir and colour of the crowded streets that p. 38stirred the imagination of the two Charles’s. The Vagabond in Literature He lived in his pleasant country house at Windermere, never visiting his diocese, and according to De Quincey, talking Socinianism at his table. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. These smells are of the earth earthy and they led one to dream that night of weird and terrible creatures such as De Quincey paints in his Confessions of an English Opium Eater. The Critic in the Orient The celebrated De Quincey is led to characterize Lamb's munificence as princely, while Procter, one of his younger friends, simply says, "he gave away greatly." Stories of Authors, British and American Before those researches "all was mist and myth" about De Quincey. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 One has only to compare the early recorded struggles of Dickens with those of De Quincey to feel the difference between the two temperaments. The Vagabond in Literature De Quincey's method, after having fixed a definite accepted point of departure, was to link the memory of events to a period made signal by identity of figures. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Of course you know De Quincey's paper on the Ratcliffe Highway murderer? The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 If we are to believe the accounts given of the Jewish Essenes by Josephus, De Quincey thinks, the claims made by Christianity are annihilated. The Sympathy of Religions Did De Quincey actually call upon the awful Dean Cyril Jackson and affably discuss with him the propriety of entering himself at Christ-church? Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 De Quincey will take some heartfelt episode and deck it out in so elaborate a panoply of rhetoric that the human element seems to have vanished. The Vagabond in Literature Evidently the editor of Hogg's Instructor was hardly so attracted by these papers as by others of De Quincey's; for we find that he had excised some of the notes. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 De Quincey testifies that he became a positive bore upon Bell's virtues. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill It was in Golden Square that De Quincey took leave of Ann, whom he was never to see again. The Strand District The Fascination of London But it has to be remembered that for all these details we have little security but De Quincey himself. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 For expressing subtle emotions, half shades of thought, no writer is more wonderfully adept than De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature The 'Anti-Papal Movement' may be taken to attest once more De Quincey's keen interest in all the topics of the day, political, social, and ecclesiastical. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 The true title of his work should be that which his commentator, De Quincey, afterwards adopted, the Logic of Political Economy. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Justifiable as such feelings may be, however, they tend to wrong De Quincey's memory and to limit our conceptions of his character and genius. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 A De Quincey in a world where there was neither reading nor writing of books, would certainly either have committed suicide or gone mad. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 There is no necessity to weigh Wilde’s experiences of “Our Ladies of Sorrow” beside those of De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature De Quincey was writing professedly for ladies only, and not for scholars; and that his acknowledged leading obstacle was the semi-mythical wilderness of all early oriental history is insisted on with emphasis. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 De Quincey makes a great point of this doctrine, of which it is not worth while to examine the meaning. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Not a single one of the charges can be wholly denied; on analysis De Quincey proves guilty of all these offenses against ideal culture. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 De Quincey himself tried, and made rather a muddle of it. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 And I think there can be no doubt that it is not De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature Not the dreams that he meant; but royal, purple dreams, that De Quincey could not purchase with his opium; dreams that I would not forego for all the inducements that could be offered. A Confederate Girl's Diary A new volume of the writings of De Quincey has just been published by Ticknor, Reed & Fields, of Boston. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 De Quincey was a sophist, a rhetorician, a brilliant talker. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 I can quite conceive De Quincey doing both. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Certainly De Quincey’s was not the type of mind we should go to for an interpretative criticism of the eighteenth century. The Vagabond in Literature Now there's De Quincey,—he says, in his outlandish way, that genius is the synthesis of the intellect with the moral nature. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Not a few of the critical essays of De Quincey, Macaulay, Carlyle, Arnold, Lowell, and others, have an honorable place in the literature of the English-speaking world. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism De Quincey shared Dante's rare capacity for retaining strong visual images, his rare power of weaving them into a new and wonderful fabric. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 De Quincey was at once egotistic and impersonal, at once delighted to talk and resolutely shunning society. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 In the first place De Quincey’s humour never seems to me very genuine. The Vagabond in Literature A striking explanation," said the Critic, "but, you know, De Quincey said practically the same thing more than fifty years ago in his essay on Oliver Goldsmith. Days Off And Other Digressions Let him determine the percentage of figurative sentences, and compare the results with those obtained from an examination of the prose of Macaulay, Ruskin, Carlyle, De Quincey, Lowell, and other standard writers. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism De Quincey's latent images are therefore not grotesque or mediæval, not conditioned by any philosophical theory, not of any Inferno or Paradise. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 The quantity of work produced during this singular existence, from the time when De Quincey first began, unusually late, to write for publication, was very large. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 I can see little genuine humour in either Hazlitt or De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature Yet the sale of 'The Prude of Pimlico' exceeds the sale of the leading novel of De Quincey's day by at least five hundred per cent. Days Off And Other Digressions For this purpose the teacher might assign Macaulay's "Essay on Milton," De Quincey's "Joan of Arc," Tennyson's "Enoch Arden," Webster's "First Bunker Hill Oration," or some other similar work. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism The greater part of De Quincey's writings however are historical, critical, and philosophical in character rather than autobiographical; but these are now much neglected. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 I do not see that De Quincey said anything worse of Coleridge than any man who knew the then little, but now well-known facts of Coleridge's life, was entitled to say if he chose. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Now, in his own way, De Quincey was possibly the most inquisitive of all the Vagabonds. The Vagabond in Literature Many persons, as De Quincey tells us, of station and influence both lent him money and gave him a sort of countenance equally useful to his interests by placing their sons under his care. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch Only the other day I saw an autograph letter of De Quincey's,—the opium-eater, you know; it was written to the auctioneer who sold his library. Old Valentines A Love Story But for all his eccentricities, De Quincey—unlike Poe, for example—is not a possible object for pity or patronage; they would be foolish who could doubt his word or mistrust his motives. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 The Bishop's old housekeeper, who was De Quincey's landlady, told him, it seems, that the Bishop had cautioned her against taking in lodgers whom she did not know, and De Quincey was very angry. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 And this may confidently be said: There is “fundamental brainwork” in every article that De Quincey has written. The Vagabond in Literature De Quincey would there doubtless have given us under a form more or less fanciful or symbolical his reading of the problem: 'Why Nature out of fifty seeds So often brings but one to bear.' The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 It seems De Quincey had his son buy a few of the books at his own auction. Old Valentines A Love Story But De Quincey, though as learned and as acute as Dante, had not Dante's religious and philosophical convictions. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Swift and Thackeray justify their license by their use of it; De Quincey does not. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 It is curious to contrast the stateliness of De Quincey’s literary style, the elaborate full-dress manner, with the extreme simplicity of the man. The Vagabond in Literature Phil. here referred to is the Philoleutheros Anglicanus of the essay on 'Protestantism,' as shortened by De Quincey, and with whom De Quincey, in that essay, deals very effectively and wittily on occasion. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 If De Quincey was an artist, the artistic temperament was a curse. The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly For De Quincey's range of action and association was not as narrow as might seem. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 De Quincey is, however, first of all a writer of ornate English, which was never, with him, a mere cover to bare thought. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 This bright-eyed Norfolk giant took more kindly to the roughnesses of life than did Hazlitt and De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature These articles recovered from the MSS. of De Quincey will, the Editor believes, be found of substantive value. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 In succoring De Quincey we may well think that Anne was repaying something of the debt owed by one of her unhappy class to two of the glories of literature and of humanity. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III De Quincey was early impressed by the remarkable fashion in which dreams or reveries weave together the separate strands of wakeful existence. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 At any rate the contrast, deliberate or not, is very strong indeed in De Quincey—stronger than in any other prose author except his friend, and pupil rather than master, Wilson. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 “But,” in the words of De Quincey, “no man can be truly great, without at least chequering his life with solitude.” Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States Editor's Note.—It is evident that De Quincey meditated a much longer essay on anecdotes as false, in which Niccolo Machiavelli would have come in for notice—hence the playful references in the close. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Mr. De Quincey is one of the greatest of the elder race of literary men now living in Great Britain, and we believe he is in no very affluent circumstances. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 The generation that habitually neglects De Quincey has lost little important historical and philosophical information, perhaps, but it has certainly deprived itself of a constant source of entertainment. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Few indeed are the writers of whom so much can be said, and fewer still the miscellaneous writers, among whom De Quincey must be classed. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Of notable essays, a high class of literature in which there are many names, may be named Addison, Montaigne, Bacon, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lamb, De Quincey, Holmes, Lowell, etc. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries After this loss of the greater portion of the 'Suspiria' copy, De Quincey seems to have become indifferent in some degree to their continuity and relation to each other. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 De Quincey figured that a man might possibly, in a long lifetime devoted to nothing else, read 20,000 volumes. The Booklover and His Books In this ideal of impassioned prose De Quincey gave to the prose of the latter part of the century its keynote. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 De Quincey on the Society of Friends, 8, 9. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author De Quincey and Coleridge are two of the best illustrations whom I can recall, while certain analytical character-sifters in modern novels seem the farthest remote from such genial naturalness. Memoirs We find that De Quincey, in one of his essays, reports the case of an officer holding the rank of lieutenant-colonel who could not tolerate a breakfast without muffins. Pickwickian Manners and Customs De Quincey, Thomas, on possible amount of reading in a lifetime, 105. The Booklover and His Books Such a talker, such a writer, was De Quincey. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 It indicates the enormous preference which on the whole Lord Acton gave to the Literature of Knowledge over the Literature of Power, to use De Quincey’s famous distinction. Immortal Memories It was a bargain, for I found in it in good condition the first American editions of De Quincey’s “Opium-Eater,” “The Rejected Addresses,” and the Poems of Coleridge. Memoirs The theory is of German origin; but it was presented to the English public by De Quincey, who adorned it with all the persuasiveness of his meretricious genius. The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion De Quincey found these lines unintelligible, and pulls them about in all directions but the right one. Obiter Dicta Second Series There are few facts in De Quincey's long career that bear directly on the criticism of his works. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Milton, in adopting this doctrine, merely followed current belief, and did not, as De Quincey seems to think, hit upon it by a fortunate stroke of genius. Milton De Quincey was proud of his descent from De la Laund. Memoirs It may be said without exaggeration that, next to Carlyle’s, De Quincey’s style is the most stimulating and inspiriting that a young reader can find among modern writers. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 For example, he reprints without comment De Quincey’s absurd strictures on the celebrated lines— ‘Who but must laugh if such a man there be; Who would not weep if Atticus were he!’ Obiter Dicta Second Series There is scarcely a page in all De Quincey's writings that taken by itself is actually dull. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 The splendid artifice of contrast, noted by De Quincey as one of the subtlest of Milton's devices, is illustrated, perhaps, by both these passages. Milton De Quincey was a shy, bookish little man, of erratic, nocturnal habits, who impresses one, personally, as a child of genius, with a child's helplessness and a child's sharp observation. Brief History of English and American Literature De Quincey is perhaps the writer of the most ornate and elaborate English prose of this period. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 De Quincey had taught him much in the knowledge of hardship. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets As a stylist De Quincey marked a new ideal in English; that of impassioned prose, as he himself expresses it,—prose which deliberately exalts its subject-matter, as the opera does its. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 These words which I have just quoted are De Quincey’s—whom I must needs esteem the greatest living master of our English tongue. English Past and Present His volumes were read—as one reads Dickens, or Holmes, or De Quincey—to amuse in leisure hours. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. His greatest prose work is the Imaginary Conversations; his best poem is Count Julian; and the character of Count Julian has been 348 ranked by De Quincey with the Satan of Milton. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 The day for their picnic was like unto that described by De Quincey, when "midsummer with all its banners was marching through the sky." Belles and Ringers And it was really as an opera that De Quincey conceived of the essay. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 This bit of cavilling reminds one of De Quincey's elaborate argument against the lines: Who would not laugh, if such a man there be? Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) I have overcome the world—’ So speaks a gentle voice. p. 65I found here a Number of Tait’s Magazine for August last, containing a paper on Southey, Wordsworth, etc., by De Quincey. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 De Quincey declared it to be “the most exquisite monument of playful fancy that universal literature offers.” A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 De Quincey, who of all English critics was believed to know Germany best, and Jeffrey, who exercised the greatest influence on English literary opinion, combined to depreciate or ridicule Goethe. Historical and Political Essays Like Dante, whose 'Vita Nuova' De Quincey's 'Confessions' greatly resemble in their essential characteristics of method, he had lived from childhood in a world of dreams. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 De Quincey says that precisely the same phenomenon is supposed to make you laugh in one line and weep in the other; and that therefore the thought is inaccurate. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) You seem to think that it is purposely unsatisfactory, or rather dissatisfactory: but it seems to me to proceed from a kind of enervation in De Quincey. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Ricardo and De Quincey had independently arrived at the same conclusions on the subject at about the same time. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy You would compare yourself with great imaginative writers, such as Stevenson, Poe, De Quincey, and judge your power of imagination by your ability to produce such tales as made them famous. The Mind and Its Education These two incidents are a key to the working of De Quincey's mind. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 De Quincey himself gives thanks for four circumstances. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) It is very incomplete, like all De Quincey’s things, but has grand things in it; grand sounds of sense if nothing else. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 The subjects which De Quincey has critically investigated are very numerous, and it cannot be expected that our limits will permit any exhaustive enumeration of them. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy De Quincey is the authority on mail coaches and for the roof seats he is all fire and enthusiasm. Journeys to Bagdad De Quincey's visions, however, have the merit of not being forced. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 De Quincey implicitly puts forward a claim which has been accepted by all competent critics. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) In the twelfth volume of the 'Riverside' Edition of De Quincey's works, published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg De Quincey's views on war will doubtless be astounding to most persons who have never given the subject any very particular attention. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy It happened once, to continue with De Quincey, that a state coach was presented by His Majesty George the Third of England, as a gift to the Chinese Emperor. Journeys to Bagdad There are obvious reasons why De Quincey's historical and philosophical writings, in an age which devotes itself so largely to similar pursuits, no longer recommend themselves to the popular taste. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 And De Quincey, if the comparison be not too quaint, is like the bat, an ambiguous character, rising on the wings of prose to the borders of the true poetical region. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) The titles which follow are those which were given by De Quincey himself to the three Sections.—H. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Altogether hostile to this idea is the position of De Quincey; he solemnly declares that war neither can be abolished nor ought to be. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy One can well believe, that, as De Quincey said, in the quiet walks after tea the face of the poet "grew solemn and spiritual as any saint's." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 These failings, from our point of view, are the more to be regretted because there has never been an English essayist more entertaining or suggestive than De Quincey. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 De Quincey, then, announces himself as an impassioned writer, as a writer in impassioned prose, and, finally, as applying impassioned prose to confessions. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) These indicate that De Quincey was here a pretty fair exponent of the growing wrath of the English people. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg According to De Quincey there are four elements: 1st. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Nor could we, with De Quincey, apostrophize to a certain other excitant, "O just, subtle, and mighty opium! thou boldest the keys of Paradise!" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 I suppose De Quincey would have been complaisant if the Duke of Wellington had asked him to whistle "Home, Sweet Home" to him. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France It is in the success with which he produces such effects as these that De Quincey may fairly claim to be unsurpassed in our language. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) The next variety, more rarely used, was especially developed if not actually invented by De Quincey and was called by him impassioned prose. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric At the age of nine years she suddenly sickened and died; De Quincey, although younger by three years, was overwhelmed with unspeakable agony. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy What convenient little plums, as De Quincey somewhat wistfully remarked, were always being found for Wordsworth just at the psychological moment; and they were not withheld, moreover, until he was full of years and honors. The Joyful Heart There was something in it at once fateful, trembling, and irresistible, which recalled De Quincey's famous story of The Flight of a Tartar Tribe. Fighting For Peace And what, we may retort, would Taylor, or Browne, or De Quincey himself, have done, had one of them been wanted to write down the project of Wood's halfpence in Ireland? Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) De Quincey describes riding on the top of a heavy mail-coach. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric We have said that De Quincey was an eminent master of the historic art. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy De Quincey does not, I believe, carry his reasoning to this result; and I had never seen the argument stated before, as it is in the passages produced by Mr. K., from Aristotle and Plato. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 De Quincey wrote an essay on the subject. The Simpkins Plot It would be wrong to invert De Quincey's censure, and blame him because his gorgeous robes are not fitted for more practical purposes. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) De Quincey did not see her face, and hence he speaks in this description of “averted signs?” The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric In De Quincey's brief sketch of the 'First Rebellion' are found some graphic historical paintings. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy De Quincey, under the influence of the "Circean spells" of opium, was making Blackwood a power in the land. Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities Of all the English writers Thomas De Quincey must be given the palm for rhythmical prose. Modern English Books of Power To everything there is a time; for plain English, and for De Quincey's highly-wrought passages. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Perhaps the only word that jars is “English three-decker”―but the language apparently afforded De Quincey no substitute which would make his meaning clear. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric But there is still another section of the narrative art, yet more sublime and unapproachable, where De Quincey stands alone—the section in which are recorded his dreams. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Another interest that was Sharp's, an interest amounting to a passion,—out-of-doors,—De Quincey had not at all, for all his devotion to Wordsworth and to Wordsworth's interests. Irish Plays and Playwrights Thomas De Quincey From an Old EngravingToList Forty years ago De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater was read by everyone who professed any knowledge of the masters of English literature. Modern English Books of Power I have only to do with the De Quincey of books which have a singular fascination. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) De Quincey's “impassioned prose” was an attempt on his part to imitate the effects of poetry in prose. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric De Quincey's habit of dreaming was constitutional, and displayed itself even in infancy. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy It is in such work that Sharp shows his affinities to Poe, affinities which are not elsewhere as obvious as his affinities to De Quincey. Irish Plays and Playwrights The reader must be warned not to drop De Quincey because of his digressions. Modern English Books of Power By examining, therefore, the propriety of De Quincey's view of his own place in literature, we shall be naturally led to some valuation of his distinctive merits. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) So every image corresponds to a reality, either in the facts or in De Quincey's emotion at the sight of them. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric De Quincey's most elaborate dreams are: 'The Daughter of Lebanon,' 'Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow,' 'The Vision of Sudden Death,' and 'Dream Fugue.' Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The reception which it met with from the public may be gathered from the following letter which accompanied De Quincey’s copy. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle De Quincey has always impressed me as a fine example of the defects of the English school and college training. Modern English Books of Power Like other spells, we must reply, it is incommunicable: no real answer can be given even by critics who, like Coleridge and De Quincey,294 show something of the same power. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) De Quincey is so successful because his mind comprehends every detail of the scene, and through the images we see the bottom truth as through a perfect crystal. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric That gives to De Quincey's style increased power and increased beauty; artistic symmetry is superinduced upon solid excellence. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy We ought to have seen De Quincey's former residence, and Hartley Coleridge's cottage, I believe, on our way, but were not aware of it at the time. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. De Quincey was a close associate of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Lamb and others. Modern English Books of Power De Quincey scorns this sneaking maxim of prudence, and boldly challenges our admiration by indulgence in what he often calls 'bravura.' Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) The study of the following selections from Macaulay and De Quincey may be conducted on a plan a trifle different from that heretofore employed. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric But, over and above all this, in that melody, in that music of style, which exalts prose to the dignity of poetry, De Quincey is absolutely without a rival. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy As a boy he remembered De Quincey at his father's house, and recollected very well reading Mr. Schnackenberger. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Much of De Quincey's work is now unreadable because it deals with political economy and allied subjects, in which he fancied he was an expert. Modern English Books of Power The most exquisite passages in De Quincey's writings are all more or less attempts to carry out the idea expressed in the title of the dream fugue. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) De Quincey develops his sensations in witnessing this “vision of sudden death,” and rises step by step to the majestic beauty and poetic passion of the dream-fugue. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric We do not pretend that De Quincey has yet been awarded by any very general suffrage the foremost position among modern littérateurs; we expect that his popularity will be of slow growth, and never universal. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy One was a painstaking list on the whole, but very inaccurate as regards certain contributions attributed to De Quincey in Blackwood. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg The gorgeous beauty of De Quincey's pictures of these opium visions has probably induced many susceptible readers to make a trial of the drug, with deep disappointment as the result. Modern English Books of Power Briefly, De Quincey is doing in prose what every great poet does in verse. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) De Quincey's “Dream-Fugue” is as luxuriant and extravagant a use of metaphor as Macaulay's “Puritans” is of the use of antithesis and the balanced structure. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric But how is the case with De Quincey? Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Instantly there flashed the thought—what was it that De Quincey recommended? The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg No common mind can hope to have such visions as De Quincey records. Modern English Books of Power It would be difficult or impossible, and certainly it would be superfluous, to define with any precision the peculiar flavour of De Quincey's style. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) The same method was followed in the study of De Quincey's “English Mail Coach,” with even better results. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric De Quincey's writings on political economy are partially fragmentary; that is, they do not exhaust the subject as a whole, although thoroughly probing several capital points upon which the entire subject turns. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Perhaps I will be pardoned this digression, as it affords an opportunity of recording the fact that De Quincey and Southey both looked up to the bull-dog as an animal of very decided 'character.' The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg De Quincey was a dreamer before he became a slave to opium. Modern English Books of Power De Quincey recollects this, and replies to it in a note. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) With these, in one sense at least, goes De Quincey. The Victorian Age in Literature We would remark in passing that De Quincey is altogether too captious in his criticisms upon French ideas of war. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy I had a faint recollection that one day De Quincey dwelt on the merits of 'Juno,' and owned the story when he was discussing 'bull-dogs.' The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Much of the material was gathered from English periodicals, as De Quincey was the greatest magazine writer of his age. Modern English Books of Power The conception is undoubtedly meritorious, and De Quincey returns to it more than once in his other works. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) But it is hard to connect De Quincey with it; or, indeed, with anything else. The Victorian Age in Literature But Cousin, in his 'Course of History,' has asserted, even more peremptorily than De Quincey himself, the divine mission of war. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The facsimile, however, taken for The Archivist, by an expert like Mr. Netherclift, shows that it is, unquestionably, in the handwriting of De Quincey. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg George Saintsbury gives a good sketch of De Quincey in Essays in English Literature. Modern English Books of Power One may fancy that if De Quincey's language were emptied of all meaning whatever, the mere sound of the words would move us, as the lovely word Mesopotamia moved Whitefield's hearer. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) But De Quincey's sentences, as I have said, have always a dreamy and insecure sense about them, like the turret on toppling turret of some mad sultan's pagoda. The Victorian Age in Literature It was a chance perusal of this essay that first turned our attention to De Quincey's writings, and we involuntarily exclaimed, as did he when first falling upon Ricardo's work, 'Thou art the man!' Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The Quarterly Review said:— 'De Quincey's style is superb, his powers of reasoning unsurpassed, his imagination is warm and brilliant, and his humour both masculine and delicate.' The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg He produced his view of himself, as De Quincey did in his “Confessions of an English Opium Eater.” George Borrow The Man and His Books Wordsworth once uttered an aphorism which De Quincey repeats with great admiration: that language is not, as I have just said, the dress, but 'the incarnation of thought.' Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Thus certain groups of decadents found it easier to imitate De Quincey's opium than his eloquence. The Victorian Age in Literature Of this profound distinction De Quincey was the original discoverer. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy I was puzzled by some papers in The London Magazine set down as De Quincey's contributions in a memorandum said to have been furnished by Messrs. Taylor and Hessey, its Publishers. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Even so, De Quincey suggested as an excuse in his “Confessions” the service possibly to be rendered to other opium-eaters. George Borrow The Man and His Books I think, however, that all economists would admit that De Quincey's merits were confined to an admirable exposition of another man's reasoning, and included no substantial addition to the inquiry. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) It is of course true that he has never reached or attempted to reach the gorgeous rhapsodies of De Quincey or the dithyrambic melodies of Ruskin. Studies in Early Victorian Literature In point of style and general method of treating subjects, De Quincey's greatest faults are pedantry and discursiveness. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy As to The Quarterly Review, I have Mr. Murray's authority for stating that De Quincey never wrote a line in it. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg "Do your experiences in any way resemble those recorded by De Quincey?" The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 De Quincey undertakes to refute Hume's memorable argument against miracles. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) It has the ring and weird mystery of De Quincey. Studies in Early Victorian Literature These considerations account in part for De Quincey's discursiveness, but perhaps not wholly. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy In this spring and summer De Quincey and I were in intimate companionship. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg You cannot have forgotten what De Quincey has to say on that score. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891
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