Thomas de Quincey
Thomas de Quincey
Thomas Penson De Quinceywas an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West...
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Date of Birth15 August 1785
deep-love animal breathing
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
farewell everlasting
Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!
knowledge metaphysics
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.
fierce sectarianism
Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.
scruples dear-friend dear
Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.
night men years
All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing finite...Upon a night of earthquake he builds a thousand years of pleasant habitations for man. Upon the sorrow of an infant he raises oftentimes from human intellects glorious vintages that could not else have been.
blow wind ears
I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the most mournful that ever ear heard. Mournful! That is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept the fields of mortality for a hundred centuries.
drinking men sobriety
It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.
burden
The burden of the incommunicable.
numbers promise ratios
A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
kings disappear should
Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.
music single men
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.