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Updated: May 2, 2025

Coleridge, who scattered his sneering compliments very liberally up and down the world, used to call the elder Dr. an aching void; and the nephew, Dr. Arthur Aikin, by way of variety, a void aching; whilst Mrs. Barbault he designated as that pleonasm of nakedness; since, as if it were not enough to be bare, she was also bald.

Thomas De Quincey - Autobiographical Sketches