Whom you could not help looking back, andĪlso stopping, as if in suspicious alarm, and Timidly a strange diminutive creature, with Lives! The end of it is within recent recollection. Punctualities that bind and regulate ordinary In our higher English literature still to complete.ĭream rather than a lifb, a passive flitting toĪnd fro, almost a disembodied existence, unbound, Whoever knows not De Quincey has his education Have recently fallen in to the great accumulation of our standard English prose. The richest and most peculiar bequests that Real immortals, and his remains are one of Quincey is one of our classics, one of our Library that aims at containing what is most The present is a reissue of thatĮdition, with improvements and additions. Quincey himself, and all but finished when United States caused by De Quincey's fame.įorth a British edition, superintended by De
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Years ago, while De Quincey was yet alive, Topic rather for our leading article than for Hence theĬompletion of the collected edition of De To what can be called "current literature." If you come upon any errors I have missed, please do not hesitate to let the editors of this site know. The full-text version is generally accurate, and the one common OCR error here takes the form of turning the letter “e” as “o.” I corrected the scanning errors, and for ease of reading I have added a few paragraph breaks. In transcribing the following material from The Reader, an interesting, unfortunately short-lived intellectual magazine of the 1860s, I have used the Hathi Digital Library Trust web version of a copy in the Princeton University Library.