De Quincey's writings.
Subtitle: Vol. 23
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781425529789
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary Criticism; History - U.S.; United States - General; History / United States / General; General
First sentence: IT is impossible to conciliate readers of so saturnine and gloomy a class, that they cannot enter with genial sympathy into any gaiety whatever, but, least of all, when the gaiety trespasses a little into the province of the extravagant.