...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Haight Turk, Ph.D. A P... ...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey, th... .... And this continued till Mr. Waterton* changed the relations between the animals. The mode of escaping from the reptile he showed to be not by runni... ...ot by running away, but by leaping on its back booted and spurred. The two animals had misunderstood each other. The use of the crocodile has now been... ...name in a line of Peter Pindar’s (Dr Wolcot) fifty years back, where he is described as “Kempis Tom, Who clearly shows the way to Kingdom Co... ...he kind. Such a chapter had appeared, how- ever, in N. Horrebow’s (Danish, 1758) Natural History of Iceland: “Chap. LXXII. Concerning snakes. No snake... ...a con- flict of unparalleled grandeur. These honorary distinctions are all described circumstantially in the First or introductory Section (‘The Glory...

...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wish also to thank for many favors the Comm...