Tag: Thomas De Quincey
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Thomas De Quincey and Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Opium as medicine and beyond
Jared GriffinPennsauken, New Jersey, United States If a man “whose talk is of oxen,” should become an Opium-eater,the probability is, that (if he is not too dull to dream at all)—he will dream about oxen:whereas, in the case before him, the reader will find that the Opium-eater boasteth himself to be a philosopher;and accordingly, that…