Fuseli in modern times, that they thought proper to eat raw meat for the sake of obtaining splendid dreams: how much better for such a purpose to have eaten opium, which yet I do not remember that any poet is recorded to have done, except • the dramatist... Confessions of an English Opium-eater - Page 72by Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 49 pagesFull view - About this book
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