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De Quincey

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De Quin·cey  (d kwns, -z), Thomas 1785-1859.
British writer best known for his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821).
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Noun1.De QuinceyDe Quincey - English writer who described the psychological effects of addiction to opium (1785-1859)


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-- but I forget, you, in your generation, with all your activity and enlightenment, at which I can only marvel"--here she displayed both her beautiful white hands--"do not read De Quincey.
Long ago De Quincey noted it as a strongly determinant fact in Wordsworth's literary career, pointing, at the same time, to his remarkable good luck also, on the material side of life.
Holmes, stray volumes of De Quincey, and here and there minor works of Thackeray.
 
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