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Miscellaneous Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...he old fancy (adopted by Spenser, and no- ticed by so many among our elder poets) of his graciousness to maiden innocence. The wretch is the basest an... ...n this principle we come to understand why it is, that, whenever the Latin poets speak of an army as taking food, the word used is always prandens and...

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