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The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2

Note 7 — I. CONVERSATION AND S. T. COLERIDGE.

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The passage occurs at p. 354, vol. ii. of the Lectures; and we now find, on looking to the place, that the illustration is drawn from 'a dell of lazy Sicily.' The same remark has virtually been anticipated at p. 181 of the same volume in the rule about 'converting mere abstractions into persons.'

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