Title: Miscellaneous essays.
Authors: De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859
Publisher: Tickner, Reed, and Fields,
Year: 1851
Contents: On the knocking at the gate, in Macbeth.--Murder, considered as one of the fine arts.--Second paper on murder.--Joan of Arc.--The English mail-coach.--The vision of sudden death.--Dinner, real and reputed.--Orthographics mutineers.