De Quincey

Goodall was apparently so moved by the book that she failed to notice that it was, in fact, famously written by Thomas de Quincey.

With the publication of Confessions, de Quincey earned himself a permanent place among the English Romantics of the early 1800s.

He was not seen again, at least in the flesh, but he became one of the most assiduous frequenters of De Quincey's visions.

De Quincey said, "You have made a new hole in your society kettle: how do you propose to mend it?"

De Quincey found these lines unintelligible, and pulls them about in all directions but the right one.

It is also true that old maids frequently are better educated and more civilized than other women, as De Quincey shows.

Now there's De Quincey,—he says, in his outlandish way, that genius is the synthesis of the intellect with the moral nature.