De Quincey
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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For a class about loss, students read Elizabeth Alexander and Virginia Woolf; for one about “altered states,” Cheryl Strayed and Thomas De Quincey.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 8, 2019
It lies in the direct inheritance of the romantic confessional—the Jewish-American offspring of Rousseau and Chateaubriand and De Quincey and Hazlitt, where human truth is the reward of personal egotism.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 11, 2018
“His sister Jane lived three years,” she writes of De Quincey.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2017
The Swiss Italian writer’s unconventional biographies of three writers — Thomas De Quincey, John Keats and Marcel Schwob — contain some of my favorite sentences of the year.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2017
Thomas De Quincey sang in most glowing speech the glories of the English mail-coach.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Earle, Alice Morse
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