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The subject was suited to De Quincey's imagination. It was like one of his own opium visions, and he handled it with a dignity and force which make the history not altogether unworthy of comparison with Thucydides's great chapter on the Sicilian Expedition.
The particular thing that excited De Quincey's choler was interference with his books and manuscripts, which he piled atop of one another upon the floor and over his desk, until at last there would be but a narrow little pathway from the desk to the fireplace and from the fireplace to the door; and his writing-table gracious! what a Pelion upon Ossa of confusion it must have been!
Nothing greatly original had resulted from these measures; and the effects of the opium had convinced him that there was an entire dissimilarity between his constitution and De Quincey's. The superadded circumstance which would evolve the genius had not yet come; the universe had not yet beckoned. Even Caesar's fortune at one time was, but a grand presentiment.
De Quincey's wide reading, especially of history, supplied the material for many of them.
From a literary view point the most illuminating of De Quincey's critical works is his. Literary Reminiscences. This contains brilliant appreciations of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Shelley, Keats, Hazlitt, and Landor, as well as some interesting studies of the literary figures of the age preceding.
Dennis's The Age of Pope. Stephen's Life of Swift. Craik's Life of Swift. Courthope's Life of Addison. Macaulay's Essay on Addison. Stephen's Life of Pope. De Quincey's Essay on Pope, and On the Poetry of Pope. Dryden. From his lyrical verse, read Alexander's Feast or A Song for St. Cecilia's Day.
He also ed. the standard ed. of De Quincey's works, and the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, his introductions in connection with which are of great historical value. He was appointed Historiographer for Scotland in 1893. M. was full of learning guided by sagacity, genial, broad-minded, and sane in his judgments of men and things, and thoroughly honest and sincere.
Do you have creeps all down your back? And do you feel it just here?" The child clapped her yellow claw to Miss Quincey's heart. "You do, you do, Miss Quincey; I can see it go thump, I can feel it go thud!" She gazed into the teacher's face, and again the power of divination was upon her. "Laura!"
To be sure, only too often the waters overflow their banks and run far afield in alien channels. Yet, when great power over the instrument of language is joined to so much constructive skill, the result is narrative art of high quality, an achievement that must be in no small measure the solid basis of De Quincey's fame. The Collected Writings of Thomas de Quincey.
Many of De Quincey's papers were autobiographical, but there is always something baffling in these reminiscences. In the interminable wanderings of his pen for which, perhaps, opium was responsible he appears to lose all trace of facts or of any continuous story.
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