Confessions of an English Opium Eater

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noun

1. an autobiographical work (1822) by Thomas De Quincey.

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Example Sentences

In her exemplary study of De Quincey, the 18th-century writer perhaps best known for his “Confessions of an English Opium Eater,” Wilson looks beyond the fumes.

From New York Times

This diary is a diary in the way that Thomas De Quincey’s “Confessions of an English Opium Eater” is a confession, or that Daniel Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year” is a journal, or that Sei Shonagon’s “Pillow Book” is a pillow book.

From New York Times

By the literature of power the author of the Confessions of an English Opium Eater meant books filled with that emotional quality which lifts the reader out of this prosaic world into that spiritual life, whose dwellers are forever young.

From Project Gutenberg

De Quincey, in his Confessions of an English Opium Eater, gives a pleasing description of the easy motion and soothing influence of a well-equipped mail-coach running upon an even and kindly road.

From Project Gutenberg

He began to write this kind of composition in “The Confessions of an English Opium Eater,” but he reached perfection only in some compositions intended as sequels to that book, namely, “Suspiria de Profundis,” and “The English Mail Coach,” with its “Vision of Sudden Death,” and “Dream-Fugue” upon the theme of sudden death.

From Project Gutenberg