Miscellaneous Essays

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Miscellaneous Essays is a collection of essays by Thomas De Quincey. The contents list On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth, Joan of Arc, The English Mail-Coach, The Vision of Sudden Death and Dinner, Real and Reputed, among others. The essay headed On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth says the writer had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth, the knocking at the gate.

A speaker addressing gentlemen says design, grouping, light and shade, poetry and sentiment are now deemed indispensable to attempts of this nature, and that to sketch the history of the art now remains as a duty for the connoisseur. The text says it had been the fixed assumption of the four inside people that they constituted a porcelain variety of the human race, whose dignity would have been compromised by exchanging one word of civility with the three miserable delf ware outsides.

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Thomas De Quincey

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) was an English essayist and critic best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, a pioneering and influential work of autobiographical and psychological writing.