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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...great masters of literature, especially those of modern times; so that few people knew the high classics more familiarly: and as to the passage in que... ... necessities of public business coming back in a torrent upon the official people after this momentary interruption, forbade them to indulge any furth... ...r of a gracious monitress, held out her fair hand to guide Kate in careful descent of the steps. This had the air of taking out Kate to dance; and Kat... ...plished or not; and when 110 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers would the descent commence? or had it, perhaps, long com- menced? The character of th... ... especially in the rainy season, the Ganges is the cock of the walk in our British orient. Else, as regards the body of water discharged, the absolute... ... a step above even that object which some four-and-twenty years ago in the British Museum struck me as simply the sublimest sight which in this sight-... ..., and cited by Gib- bon in his last volume, says of Virgil,—that ‘Captus a Romanis invisibiliter exiit, ivitque Neapopolim.’ 239 Thomas de Quincey ti...

........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...

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