[906]. Ibid., ii. 109 sq.
[907]. Ibid., iii. 386.
[908]. i. 179.
[909]. As De Quincey had, for one who was not a novelist, the probably unique honour of four complete editions of his Works in his last years and the generation succeeding his death, it is not easy to refer to him. But the last—Professor Masson’s of 1890—has the merit of methodical arrangement: and its tenth volume contains most of the purely critical things.
[910]. In Coleridge and Opium Eating.
[911]. As it is very dangerous to write about De Quincey, let me observe that this is a phrase of Mr Thackeray’s about another person, and implies affection and even admiration.
[912]. In his “biography” of Goethe.
[913]. Vol. x., ed. cit. Date, 1838-39.
[914]. As such it will prove interesting to compare him with Nisard or Planche, especially the latter. But the comparison will, I fear, bring out that superiority of French criticism at this time which, denying it at others, I fully admit.
[915]. The objection of some folk to this useful word may be perhaps accounted for by their spelling it “protreptric.”