Thomas De Quincey

Thomas De Quincey, for example, tells us that Coleridge hired strong men to keep him out of opium dens - a practice that persists to this day in the "sobriety minders" who are hired to help celebrities keep their noses clean.

'Precommitment' devices as a safeguard against failure Daniel Akst 2011

Only a few nonfiction writers, such as the nineteenth-century Englishman Thomas De Quincey, have directly addressed them.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

Only a few nonfiction writers, such as the nineteenth-century Englishman Thomas De Quincey, have directly addressed them.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

Today it began at Worcester College, where Thomas De Quincey, author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, had been a student in the 1800s.

Day of the Dandelion Peter Pringle 2007

Carlish expressed concern that Doherty thinks he's Thomas De Quincey, author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.

The Beautiful and the Damned Ward, Vicky 2005

Lovecraft article had made the Internet it hasn't, but I find they have an interesting collection of articles on how acid, absinthe and upset stomachs inspired several writers: Thomas De Quincey, August Strindberg, Aldous Huxley and Lewis Carroll.

Archive 2004-06-01 Brian 2004

Lovecraft article had made the Internet it hasn't, but I find they have an interesting collection of articles on how acid, absinthe and upset stomachs inspired several writers: Thomas De Quincey, August Strindberg, Aldous Huxley and Lewis Carroll.

Acid, absinthe and upset tummies Brian 2004

At the same time, for a modicum of work, as Thomas De Quincey observed—chiefly auditing the account books for wages and pensions—he was well maintained for thirty-three years by his clerkship, ultimately enjoyed a retirement arrangement that he himself termed “magnificent,” and was able to pursue an active literary career.

Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

At the same time, for a modicum of work, as Thomas De Quincey observed—chiefly auditing the account books for wages and pensions—he was well maintained for thirty-three years by his clerkship, ultimately enjoyed a retirement arrangement that he himself termed “magnificent,” and was able to pursue an active literary career.

Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

The singular beauty of the pleading on both sides has often been noticed, and by the best critics, from Thomas Gray to Thomas De Quincey.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various