Excerpt from Thomas De Quincey: A StudyReminiscences, has left a charming sketch. I have often found him at home, wrote Hood, then a sub-editor of the London Magazine, doubtless on a quest for copy, ' I have often found him quite at home, in the midst of a German ocean of Literature in a storm ¿ooding all the ¿oor, the table and the Chairs billows of books tossing, tumbling, surging, open on such occasions I have willingly listened by the hour, whilst the Philosopher, standing, with his eyes fixed on one side of the room, seemed to be less speaking than reading from a handwriting on the wall.' Now and then he would diverge for a Scotch mile or two to the right or left, till I was tempted to inquire with Peregrine in 'john Bull, ' Do you never deviate? But he always came safely back to the point where he had left, not lost the scent, and thence hunted his topic to the end. But look! We are in the small hours, and a change comes o'er the spirit of that old familiar face.' A faint hectic tint leaves the check, the eyes are a degree dimmer, and each is surrounded by a growing shadow signs of the waning in¿uence of that Potent Drug whose stupendous Pleasures and enormous Pains have been so eloquently described by the English opium-eater.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.