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Excerpt: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...t an anxious review of the rea- sons for and against this step that I have at last concluded on taking it. Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural insti... ...hought the subject of too delicate a nature to be made common; and as many people might then indiscriminately use it, it would take from that neces- s... ...rnishing a key to some parts of that tremendous scen- ery which afterwards peopled the dreams of the Opium-eater. 3. As creating some previous interes... ... an ancient founda- tion. This man had been appointed to his situation by— College, Oxford, and was a sound, well-built scholar, but (like most men wh... ... sound, well-built scholar, but (like most men whom I have known from that college) coarse, clumsy, and inelegant. A miserable contrast he presented, ... ...umsy, and inelegant. A miserable contrast he presented, in my eyes, to the Etonian brilliancy of my favourite master; and beside, he could not disguis... ...catholic creature, and as stand- ing in equal relation to high and low, to educated and un- educated, to the guilty and the innocent. Being myself at ... ... chief (or rather only) confidential friend. These letters were dated from Eton. I had also some from the Marquis of —, his father, who, though absorb...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ...........................................

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... to be more or less advantageous to the collection, it is my wish to place at your disposal as soon as possible, in order that you may make what use o... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ...7. a second Jane; 8. Henry, a posthumous child, who belonged to Brazennose College, Oxford, and died about his twenty-sixth year. 2 Cicero, in a well... ...ar School 1 of Bath, over which at that time presided a most accomplished Etonian—Mr. (or was he as yet Doctor?) Morgan. If he was not, I am sure he ... ... allowed me to accept it. In the spring of 1800, accordingly, I went up to Eton, for the purpose of joining my friend. Here I several times visited th... ...thing of the same bitter spirit. But the great body of the richer and more educated inhabitants showed the most hos- pitable attention to all who just... ...s it must have done in most other parts of North America; that the boy was educated and trained as a missionary clergy- man; and finally, that he is n...

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...motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original series. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of your individual house, the Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, according to the amplest extent of any power to make such a transfer that I may be found to posses...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original se- ries. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of y... ... any, had been already tried for me vicariously amongst the Ameri- cans; a people so nearly repeating our own in style of intel- lect, and in the comp... ...rciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every philosophi... ...als, and Other Papers helpers. Lord Carbery, who had received an elaborate Etonian education, was even more earnestly a student than his friend Lord M... ...ore earnestly a student than his friend Lord Massey, who had probably been educated at home un- der a private tutor. He read everything connected with... ..., in the persons of their children, meeting for study at the same schools, colleges, military academies, &c.; by what furious forgetfulness of the rea... ... visits dur- ing his imprisonment. But the robber represented by the skel- eton in Mr. White’s museum (whom let us call X, since his true name has per... ...ing composed of those who are “noble;” the other, of families equally well educated and accomplished, but not, in the continental sense, “noble.” The ...

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...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet...

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...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE.......................................................

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...Miscellaneous ESSAYS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Miscellaneous ... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e University is an equal opportunity university. Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................... ...e human mind, and the most to be distrusted; and yet the great majority of people trust to nothing else; which may do for ordinary life, but not for p... ... corresponding improve- ment. Practice and theory must advance pari passu. People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine m... ... it seem so droll. One, is, the horrid panic or “funk,” (as the men of 19 Eton call it,) in which Des Cartes must have found himself upon hearing thi... ... reign which was notoriously favorable to the arts generally. She lived in College Green, with a single maid-servant, neither of them having any prete... ... seek him in chapels and consecrated oratories. This peasant girl was self-educated through her own natu- ral meditativeness. If the reader turns to t... ...wo thousand resident 3 in Oxford, and dis- persed through five-and-twenty colleges. In some of these the custom permitted the student to keep what ar...

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Excerpt: The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

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...The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book ... ...S SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...om a former paper of mine, ‘On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts;’ at the same time proving the sincerity of their praise by one hesi- tating ... ... of exertion is very lim- ited, and is soon filled by regular professional people, trained and equipped for the service. In the case of a fire which i... ...ain rob her mistress of a night’s rest. And she well knew that, with three people all 19 Thomas de Quincey anxiously awaiting her return, and by this... ...om- mercial class of readers: amongst the aristocracy all are thor- oughly educated, excepting those who go at an early age into the army; of the comm... ...three or four months be- fore the accession of George III., he was sent to Eton, at the age of eleven; and from Eton, in his eighteenth year, he was s... ... republication of Walton’s Lives] edited by the present master of T rinity College, Cam- bridge, who is held in the highest esteem wherever he is know...

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Excerpt: Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey.

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...d his power to protect, even for a moment, the crown of flow- ers—flowers, at the best, how frail and few! —which some- times settles upon his haughty... ...ntions; and with our feelings of jealousy, feel- ings in which we had been educated, towards everything that tended to superstition, we soon agreed to... ...great masters of literature, especially those of modern times; so that few people knew the high classics more familiarly: and as to the passage in que... ... necessities of public business coming back in a torrent upon the official people after this momentary interruption, forbade them to indulge any furth... ... should she accomplish this? It was dark; and she stood, as you may see an Etonian do at times, rocking her little boat from side to side, until it ha... ...trength, that some railway potentate, having taken a fancy for the ancient college of Glasgow, as a bauble to hang about his wife’s neck, (no accounti... ... by three (if not four) of the reverend gentlemen at that time attached to Eton College. Mathias, no very great scholar himself in this particular fie... ...he delicacies of classic Latinity. And it is remark- able that Wordsworth, educated most negligently at Hawkshead school, subsequently by reading the ...