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d the crown of martyrdem. Prescott. Guilt and misery . . . court privacy and silitude. De Quincey.

towers . . . beginning to crimson with the radiant luster of a cloudless July morning. De Quincey.

all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man. De Quincey.

ude, undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing rather raw materials for composition. De Quincey. The originals of Nature in their crude Conception. Milton.

. That cumbrousand unwieldy style which disfigures English composition so extensively. De Quincey.

A peculiar mucilaginous substance extracted from the seeds of the quince (Cydonia vulgaris), and regarded as a variety of amylose.

lot. Speculations high or deep. Milton. A question deep almost as the mystery of life. De Quincey. O Lord, . . . thy thought are very deep. Ps. xcii. 5.

n features; deformed. [R.] Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey.

A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress. [Colloq.] De Quincey.

Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative. "Demiurgic power." De Quincey.

by pressure; an indentation. A blow that would have made a dent in a pound of butter. De Quincey.

To lay bare; to expose. The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of the age. De Quincey.

irreligious; to turn from religion. [R.] He would dereligionize men beyond all others. De Quincey.

al air; a comment or comments. Upon that simplest of themes how magnificent a descant! De Quincey.

rown through a . . . channel known and conformable to old constitutional requisitions. De Quincey.

Chaucer's poems. His diction blazes up into a sudden explosion of prophetic grandeur. De Quincey.

path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and intersected at every turn by human negligence. De Quincey.

other; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. "Discursive notices." De Quincey. The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. Carlyle.

by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent. De Quincey.

ious condescension with which even his reputed friends doled out their praises to him. De Quincey.