Definition of Thomas De Quincey

1. Noun. English writer who described the psychological effects of addiction to opium (1785-1859).

Exact synonyms: De Quincey
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thomas De Quincey

Thoma's laws
Thomaism
Thomas
Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Augustus Watson
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Bayes
Thomas Bowdler
Thomas Bradley
Thomas Carew
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Chippendale
Thomas Clayton Wolfe
Thomas Crawford
Thomas De Quincey (current term)
Thomas Decker
Thomas Dekker
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edward Lawrence
Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gray
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hart Benton
Thomas Hastings
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Higginson
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hodgkin
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

Literary usage of Thomas De Quincey

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Prose: Selections by Henry Craik (1907)
"... Thomas De Quincey [Thomas De Quincey was born in Manchester, I5th August 1785, being the fifth son of Thomas Quincey, a merchant of some literary taste, ..."

2. English Prose: Selections by Henry Craik (1896)
"... Thomas De Quincey [Thomas De Quincey was born in Manchester, I5th August 1785, being the fifth son of Thomas Quincey, a merchant of some literary taste, ..."

3. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"CHAPTER XXII Thomas De Quincey I. Affinities with the various ' Lake Poets.' Inequality of his writing; ..."

4. Lives of Great English Writers from Chaucer to Browning by Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere (1908)
"Thomas De Quincey ... but one finds, in following Thomas De Quincey, that one has not half guessed the vagaries which human nature can take. ..."

5. An Introduction to English Literature by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1894)
"Thomas De Quincey.—1785-1859 Thomas De Quincey impresses us as some being from another planet, who never entirely domesticated A earance himself on our ..."

6. An Introduction to English Literature by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1894)
"Thomas De Quincey.—1785-1859 Thomas De Quincey impresses us as some being from another planet, who never entirely domesticated . himself on our earth. ..."

7. A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed by William Minto (1895)
"AMONG the most eminent prose writers of this century is Thomas de Quincey, best known as The English Opium-Eater. The family of De Quincey, as we learn from ..."

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