The Project Gutenberg EBook of Miscellaneous Essays, by Thomas de QuinceyThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Miscellaneous EssaysAuthor: Thomas de QuinceyRelease Date: January 13, 2004 [EBook #10708]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS ***Produced by Charles Franks, Leonard D. Johnson, Susan Goble and PG Distributed ProofreadersDE QUINCEY'S WRITINGS.It is the intention of the publishers to issue, at intervals, a complete collection of Mr. De Quincey's Writings, uniform withthis volume. The first four volumes of the series will contain,—I. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Suspiria De Profundis.II. Biographical Essays.III. Miscellaneous Essays.IV. The Cæsars.MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.BYTHOMAS DE QUINCEY.CONTENTS.ON THE KNOCKING AT THE GATE, IN MACBETHMURDER, CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTSSECOND PAPER ON MURDERJOAN OF ARCTHE ENGLISH MAIL-COACHTHE VISION OF SUDDEN DEATHDINNER, REAL AND REPUTEDONTHE KNOCKING AT THE GATE,IN MACBETH.From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate,which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effectwas, that it ...
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