OF

THOMAS DE QUINCEY

"THE ENGLISH OPIUM EATER"

INCLUDING ALL HIS

CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE

36

SECOND EDITION

IN FIFTEEN VOLUMES

EDINBURGH

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK

MDCCCLXIII,

[The right of Translation is reserved.]

PRINTED BY NEILL AND COMPANY, EDINBUT.GE.

CONTENTS.

VOLUME I. THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER--
THE DAUGHTER OF LEBANON (SUSPIRIA DE PROFUNDIs).

THE LAKE

VOLUME II. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LAKES AND
POETS.-COLEridge, WordswORTH, AND SOUTHEY.

VOLUME III. THE SPANISH MILITARY NUN-THE LAST DAYS
OF IMMANUEL KANT-SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS RE-
VEALED BY LORD ROSSE'S TELESCOPES-JOAN OF ARC-
THE CASUISTRY OF ROMAN MEALS-MODERN SUPERSTITION.
VOLUME IV. ON MURDER, CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE FINE
ARTS-REVOLT OF THE TARTARS; OR, FLIGHT OF THE
KALMUCK KHAN AND HIS PEOPLE FROM THE RUSSIAN
TERRITORIES TO THE FRONTIERS OF CHINA-DIALOGUES
OF THREE TEMPLARS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY, CHIEFLY IN
RELATION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF MR RICARDO-ON WAR--
THE ENGLISH MAIL COACH. SECTION I. THE GLORY OF
MOTION. SECTION II. THE VISION OF SUDDEN DEATH.
SECTION III. DREAM FUGUE (SUSPIRIA).

VOLUME V. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY-DR PARR; OR, WHIGGISM
IN ITS RELATIONS TO LITERATURE-OLIVER GOLDSMITH-
ON WORDSWORTH'S POETRY-JOHN KEATS-HOMER AND
THE HOMERIDAE.

VOLUME VI. JUDAS ISCARIOT-RICHARD BENTLEY-CICERO-
SECRET SOCIETIES-MILTON-APPENDIX.

VOLUME VII. WALKING STEWART-THE MARQUESS WELLES-
LEY-SCHLOSSER'S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY-PROTESTANTISM-THE PAGAN ORACLES-MIRA-
CLES AS SUBJECTS OF TESTIMONY-CASUISTRY-GREECE
UNDER THE ROMANS

VOLUME VIII. ALEXANDER POPE-THEORY OF GREEK TRA-

- FRENCH AND ENGLISH MANNERS-

GEDY-

LANGUAGE

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CHARLES LAMB-PHILOSOPHY OF HERODOTUS-PLATO'S

REPUBLIC SORTILEGE AND ASTROLOGY-NOTES ON WALTER

SAVAGE LANDOR.

VOLUME IX. THE CÆSARS-THE THEBAN SPHINX-THE ES-

SENES AELIUS LAMIA.

VOLUME X. PREFATORY MEMORANDA-THE INCOGNITO; OR,

COUNT FITZ-HUM — RHETORIC-LIFE OF MILTON

REVOLUTION OF GREECE-STYLE-THE DICE.

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THE

VOLUME XI. PREFATORY NOTE ON COLERIDGE - CEYLON
THE KING OF HAYTI-COLERIDGE AND OPIUM-EATING--
TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY-NATIONAL TEMPERANCE
MOVEMENTS-MILTON versus SOUTHEY AND LANDOR-THE
FATAL MARKSMAN-ON CHRISTIANITY AS AN ORGAN OF
POLITICAL MOVEMENT-NOTES ON GODWIN, FOSTER, AND
HAZLITT-FALSIFICATION OF ENGLISH HISTORY.

VOLUME XII. LORD CARLISLE ON POPE-GLANCE AT THE WORKS
OF MACKINTOSH-ANECDOTAGE-HERDER-IDEA OF A UNI
VERSAL HISTORY ON A COSMO-POLITICAL PLAN
MAGNE-GOETHE'S WILHELM MEISTER-LESSING.

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CHARLY-

VOLUME XIII. LETTERS TO A YOUNG MAN WHOSE EDUCATION
HAS BEEN NEGLECTED-ORTHOGRAPHIC MUTINEERS-JOHN
PAUL FREDERICK RICHTER-THE ART OF CONVERSATION-
PRESENCE OF MIND-ON THE KNOCKING AT THE GATE IN
MACBETH-THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES-TRADITIONS OF
THE RABBINS-MODERN GREECE.

VOLUME XIV. AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES.

VOLUME XV. BIOGRAPHIES OF SHAKSPEARE, POPE, GOETHE, AND
SCHILLER-A TORY'S ACCOUNT OF TORYISM, WHIGGISM, AND
RADICALISM - ON THE POLITICAL PARTIES OF MODERN
ENGLAND-INDEX.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

PORTRAIT OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY,

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LAKES: VIEWS OF RYDAL

MOUNT, LANGDALE PIKES, BUTTERMERE, GRAS-
MERE, AND KIRKSTONE PASS,