# Autobiographic Sketches

Author: De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7306

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Autobiographic+Sketches+De+Quincey&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

About the close of my sixth year, suddenly the first chapter of my life came to a violent termination; that chapter which, even within the gates of recovered paradise, might merit a remembrance. "_Life is finished!_" was the secret misgiving of my heart; for the heart of infancy is as apprehensive as that of maturest wisdom in relation to any capital wound inflicted on the happiness. "_Life is finished! Finished it is!_" was the hidden meaning that, half unconsciously to myself, lurked within my sighs; and, as bells heard from a distance on a summer evening seem charged at times with an articulate form of words, some monitory message, that rolls round unceasingly, even so for me some nois...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiographic-sketches-7306/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiographic-sketches-7306/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiographic-sketches-7306/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiographic-sketches-7306/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiographic-sketches-7306/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiographic-sketches-7306/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiographic-sketches-7306/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiographic-sketches-7306/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiographic-sketches-7306/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiographic-sketches-7306/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiographic-sketches-7306/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiographic-sketches-7306/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiographic-sketches-7306/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiographic-sketches-7306/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiographic-sketches-7306/chapters/2/index.md)