ABSTRACT
First published Edinburgh Evening Post, 28 June 1828, pp. 57–8. Reprinted Glasgow Courier, 5 July 1828 [p. 1], and 8 July 1828 [p. 1]. Reprinted Tave, pp. 369–83 (with attribution, pp. 383–7). This piece continues the essay of two weeks before (above, pp. 202–7), with further allusions to Virgil and other poets. It has both ‘contemporary’ and ‘between’, as well as colloquial terms like ‘humbug’, the italicized ‘that’ rhetorical questions and series, and other signs of De Quincey.
