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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ...........................................

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...BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Biographical E... ...E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...manated from the capital, all opinions must have travelled slowly into the provinces. But even then, whilst the perfect organs of communication were w... ...pen between the great central organ of the national mind, and the remotest provinces. Parliaments were occasionally summoned, (for the judges’ circuit... ...and explicit imitation. Possibly, as we have already suggested, within the range of 80 Biographical Essays English literature Pope might have found a... ...improved in its arithmetic by Sir Isaac Newton. But in literature such ar- rangements are degrading; and, above all, in a work which was but too much ... ...an gains his first chance of entering the po- 136 Biographical Essays lar basin, or of running ahead on the true line of approach to it. The very rea...

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...uncan, 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....

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