[Transcriber's Notes: Text that was in italics in the original book is shown between _underscore characters_ and text that was in small caps is shown as ALL CAPS. Footnotes from the article titles are at the end of the first paragraph of the article; all others follow the paragraph in which they are referenced. The variation in the spelling of some words is maintained from the original.]
THE UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY.
WITH A PREFACE AND ANNOTATIONS BY JAMES HOGG.
IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II.
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LONDON: SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO., PATERNOSTER SQUARE.
1890.
RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED,
LONDON & BUNGAY.
CONTENTS.
PAGE THE ENGLISH IN CHINA. 7
SHAKSPERE'S TEXT.--SUETONIUS UNRAVELLED. 37
HOW TO WRITE ENGLISH. 55
THE CASUISTRY OF DUELLING. 65
THE LOVE-CHARM. 113
LUDWIG TIECK. 153
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.--THE HOUSE OF WEEPING. 160
THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK. 173
MR. SCHNACKENBERGER; OR, TWO MASTERS FOR ONE DOG. 279
ANGLO-GERMAN DICTIONARIES. 348
THE ENGLISH IN CHINA.
This Paper, originally written for me in 1857, and published in _Titan_ for July of that year, has not appeared in any collective edition of the author's works, British or American. It was his closing contribution to a series of three articles concerning Chinese affairs; prepared when our troubles with that Empire seemed to render war imminent. The first two were given in _Titan_ for February and April, 1857, and then issued with additions in the form of a pamphlet which is now very scarce. It consisted of 152 pages thus arranged:--(1) Preliminary Note, i-iv; (2) Preface, pp. 3-68; (3) China (the two _Titan_ papers), pp. 69-149; (4) Postscript, pp. 149-152.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol
- 2: To call us in all proclamations by scurrilous names
- 3: The poisoning Governor of Canton
- 4: That let all Christendom enjoy
- 5: A smart exchange of cannon shots with Yeh
- 6: 'This commanding tone was worthy of Lord Palmerston
- 7: And proceed to morrow in the steamer to Foshan
- 8: Contrast with this endless tissue of imbecilities
- 9: Nearest of all Chinese towns to Hong Kong
- 10: Palsied would be our commercial supremacy
- 11: No matter whether ex plicitly in words
- 12: But this tendency is constantly met
- 13: 000 of Chinese tea drinkers count only as 20
- 14: But was not in the age of Shakspere
- 15: Is slightly indulging in this tinkering practice
- 16: Scene in the Speech of Polonius
- 17: Quod post abductam uxorem laudanti vocem suam dixerat
- 18: No person even affected to understand Scaliger
- 19: How was it Lamia had not invoked the protection of Vespasian
- 20: Lamia had been suffered to live
- 21: Would to Heaven it might prove Orpheutic
- 22: That loveliest of earthly narratives
- 23: In the rapid abstract of Herodotus
- 24: Under the amenities of a Grecian sky
- 25: And the Irish Celtic young noblemen
- 26: Whenever the hair splitting casuistry is brought
- 27: They push casuistry into a general and unlimited application
- 28: Casuistry in itself casuistry as a possible
- 29: Or a deflection from the upright nominative rectus
- 30: The commissioner grew warmer and warmer
- 31: But this very laceration makes the ransom for his conscience
- 32: When provoked and publicly insulted
- 33: My depression had been deeper than usual
- 34: Amongst them was a notice of a satirical journal
- 35: Scattering their written reviews
- 36: And in the elegant promenades of Smithfield
- 37: They adopted the plan of baiting their hooks with obscenity
- 38: Relates to the casuistry of duelling
- 39: The subject of it reads this libel
- 40: In his well known apology for chivalry
- 41: Adopted as the basis of morality by Paley
- 42: And the cabals which prevailed there
- 43: It is a very common allegation against duelling
- 44: What they remembered of this vernile licentiousness
- 45: That quarrel would have been settled amicably
- 46: The seconds were thoughtless and without feeling
- 47: By authorising such a mode of redress
- 48: The duke denied that it required a duel
- 49: Emilius lived in the greatest solitude
- 50: As Emilius was becoming impatient
- 51: It must be dancing to the tune of silence
- 52: But your whims go still further
- 53: Which he counted over beneath his cloak
- 54: Emilius came from the dark niche shuddering
- 55: ' replied Emilius very gravely
- 56: Loud cymbals catch the cry And back its echoes shake
- 57: I press thine answering fingers
- 58: Lengthening and ever lengthening out of the darkness
- 59: He almost quarrelled with Roderick
- 60: Does not think that of a mountebank beneath his cultivation
- 61: Emilius became more thoughtful
- 62: A shuddering came over Emilius
- 63: The bride and bridegroom led the way
- 64: And Emilius was satisfied with this arrangement
- 65: Roderick took the young men aside
- 66: And swaggered along the gallery
- 67: The humour arising from good humour
- 68: And grievously he must have failed
- 69: As for instance when Emilius exclaims
- 70: This Van der Kabel may be styled the Haslau Croesus
- 71: And finally to Monsieur Flitte
- 72: To the necessity of weeping for a wager
- 73: And thus fairly dammed up the waters
- 74: Glantz congratulated Flacks very warmly
- 75: Faster 'than a musician scatters sounds
- 76: Comes the sickness of the brain lunacy which
- 77: Nay even of the most delicate valetudinarians
- 78: These were golden elements of felicity
- 79: Like that Meshech and that Abednego
- 80: When you saw only her superb figure
- 81: On the birthday the seventeenth birthday of Agnes
- 82: Amongst the humbler classes of her applicants
- 83: Had completely won the heart of the grateful Hungarian
- 84: Was striking when Agnes came into my study
- 85: To her child she supported the matronly part of guide
- 86: I was still anxious for her safety to an irrational extent
- 87: And I now pursue my narrative Agnes
- 88: With the shadowy outline of those very predictions
- 89: That he could not have seen her in her human bodily presence
- 90: Consequently their very sympathy
- 91: Hannah was this woman's Christian name
- 92: Too surely by this time hapless
- 93: Was a suggestion that did not tend to alleviate my anxiety
- 94: To argue the point was manifestly idle
- 95: That final reunion with your Agnes
- 96: I being in our common bedchamber
- 97: Pressed against the prosecutor
- 98: On this day were all my efforts to corrupt the jailers
- 99: And she should chance to die within this dungeon
- 100: This fever is supposed to be the peculiar product of jails
- 101: And it was now actually the 2nd of June
- 102: The first step he took was to call upon Barratt
- 103: Such a fight had my Agnes to maintain
- 104: Not one amongst all the witnesses
- 105: The same or similar villainies in former instances
- 106: Until the turnkey in a respectful tone announced me
- 107: Contrary to my own previous intention
- 108: Greatly disturbed and confused her manner
- 109: One I have mentioned the fact of Barratt
- 110: But without the knowledge of Agnes
- 111: When it became easy to allege anything
- 112: The hour fixed for the interview
- 113: And seemed to meditate no treachery
- 114: It proved to be my friend the under jailer
- 115: At this moment Ratcliffe returned
- 116: Upon which Pierpoint drew a pistol
- 117: Contrived that Ratcliffe should be arrested for debt
- 118: Still growing thicker and thicker
- 119: The lines occur in Wordsworth's Prelude
- 120: When musing on his trivial vengeance
- 121: He heard the charge against her made by Barratt
- 122: Schnackenberger made his entry into b
- 123: Sweetbread still kept up on the outside of the door
- 124: Schnackenberger strode to the bed for his well filled purse
- 125: Schnackenberger for a maniac until
- 126: Violently irritated the appetite of Juno
- 127: Yet he could not possibly make his appearance in a surtout
- 128: Sweetbread would answer the purpose very passably
- 129: 'just mind Juno have an eye to Juno
- 130: Schnackenberger himself became alive to his own betise
- 131: ' said Von Pilsen 'so do not I
- 132: Schnackenberger or his dog had been absent
- 133: Schnackenberger first unclosed his eyes
- 134: Schnackenberger to the waiter and boots
- 135: Schnackenberger engaged with the butterwoman
- 136: Jeremiah Schnackenberger's body
- 137: Schnackenberger 'the people was it you said
- 138: Schnackenberger lost no time in using his good fortune
- 139: As the warrior in the dreadnought
- 140: Schnackenberger to the arrest and as to the filthy dungeon
- 141: Schnackenberger with strange bedfellows
- 142: Schnackenberger entreated the Mayor to be lenient courage
- 143: Schnackenberger had ascribed to her Highness
- 144: Schnackenberger stoutly refused
- 145: Schnackenberger perspire exceedingly
- 146: Schnackenberger not to confound the innocent with the guilty
- 147: 'most e dacious and au dacious of quadrupeds
- 148: Schnackenberger in surging volumes of smoke
- 149: At length Von Pilsen rose and said
- 150: Schnackenberger shrugged his shoulders
- 151: Fabian kneeled like a dactyle Mr
- 152: If any part of this slang has become
- 153: Haaf with a triumphant shout haaf