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Excerpt from De Quincey's Collected Writings, Vol. 13: Tales and Prose Phantasies
SO large a portion of the contents of the volume being thus representative Of De Quincey in some Of the most inti mate and peculiar qualities of his genius, one may dwell a little here on two Of those qualities in particular.
While nearly all the chief Writers in the long chrono logical list which summarises the literary history Of the British Islands have been Humourists to some extent, only some have been wholly Humourists, or Humourists by such an overbalance in the general sum of their writings that one feels them to be sufficiently described all in all by that one name. Others have been Humourists only in the sense that portions Of their writings have been of the humorous order, or that there has been an interfusion of the humorous here and there in their writings throughout. SO far, therefore, as it may be desired to include De Quincey among the English Humourists, it must be in this modified, or non exclusive, sense.
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