...BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Biographical E... ...E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Stat... ... the rank held by a man whose intel- lectual development has long ago been completed, this be- comes a mere question of curiosity. The tree has fallen... ...whole family of three children were born and baptized two months before he completed his majority. The twins were baptized by the names of Hamnet and ... ...se or other, Pope pursued Philips with virulence through life. In the year 1711, Pope published his Essay on Criticism, which some people have very un... ...hat of Goethe’s father. It had in fact been composed out of two contiguous houses; that accident had made it spacious and rambling in its plan; whilst... ...ifference in point of level between the corresponding sto- ries of the two houses, making it necessary to connect the rooms of the same suite by short...

...pt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Ma...