Miscellaneous Essays

By Quincey, Thomas De

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Title:	Miscellaneous Essays
Author:	Quincey, Thomas De
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


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Excerpt
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, however obstinately I endeavored with my understanding to comprehend this, for many years I never could see why it should produce such an effect.

Table of Contents
Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE..................................................................................................... 11 Second Paper on Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts ...................37 Joan of Arc .....................................................................................................51 In Reference to M. Michelet?s History of France.........................................51 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH; ...............................................................85 GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY...........................................................104 THE VISION OF SUDDEN DEATH........................................................ 112 Dream-Fugue...............................................................................................129 On the above Theme of Sudden Death .......................................................129 Dinner, Real and Reputed ...........................................................................138