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Definition of Thomas De Quincey
1. Noun. English writer who described the psychological effects of addiction to opium (1785-1859).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thomas De Quincey
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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