... small portion which should lie within the compass of merely written words. By the utter simplicity, by the nakedness of his designs, he arrested and overawed attention. If ever mortal painted an idea, that mortal was Roderick Usher. For me at least... Little Classics - Seite 102herausgegeben von - 1874Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 696 Seiten
...there arose out of the pure abstractions which the hypochondriac contrived to throw upon his canvass, an intensity of intolerable awe, no shadow of which...abstraction, may be shadowed forth, although feebly, ip words. A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel,... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 Seiten
...idea, that mortal was Roderick Usher. For me, at least, in the circumstances then surrounding me, there arose out of the pure abstractions which the hypochondriac contrived to throw upon his canvass, an intensity of intolerable awe, no shadow of which felt I ever yet in the contemplation of... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1845 - 288 Seiten
...that mortal was Roderick Usher. For me at least — in the circumstances then surrounding me — there arose out of the pure abstractions which the hypochondriac contrived to throw upon his canvass, an intensity of intolerable awe, no shadow of which felt I ever yet in the contemplation of... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 Seiten
...mortal was Roderick Usher. For me at least — in the; circumstances then surrounding me — there arose out of the pure abstractions which the hypochondriac contrived to throw upon his canvass, an intensity of intolerable aive, no shadow of which felt I ever yet in the contemplation... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 578 Seiten
...that mortal was Roderick Usher. For me at least — in the circumstances then surrounding me — there arose out of the pure abstractions which the hypochondriac contrived to throw upon his canvass, an intensity of intolerable awe, no shadow of which felt I ever yet in the contemplation of... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1871 - 556 Seiten
...that mortal was Roderick Usher. For me at Irast — in the circumstances then surrounding me — there arose out of the pure abstractions which the hypochondriac contrived to throw upon his canvass, an intensity of intolerable awe, no shadow of which felt I ever yet in the contemplation of... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 618 Seiten
...that mortal was Roderick Usher. For me at least — in the circumstances then surrounding me — there arose out of the pure abstractions which the hypochondriac contrived to throw upon his canvass, an intensity of intolerable awe, no shadow of whieh felt 1 ever yet in the contemplation of... | |
| William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 Seiten
...idea, that mortal was Roderick Usher. For me, at least, in the circumstances then surrounding me, there arose, out of the pure abstractions which the hypochondriac...certainly glowing yet too concrete reveries of Fuseli. 11. I have just spoken of that morbid condition of the auditory nerve which rendered all music intolerable... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1883 - 668 Seiten
...that mortal was Roderick Usher. For me at least — in the circumstances then surrounding me — there arose out of the pure abstractions which the hypochondriac...intensity of intolerable awe, no shadow of which felt I ? eyer^et in the contemplation of the certainly glowing yet too concrete reveries of Fuseli. One of... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1898 - 228 Seiten
...idea, that mortal was Roderick Usher. For me at least, in the circumstances then surrounding me, there arose, out of the pure abstractions which the hypochondriac...the certainly glowing yet too concrete reveries of Fuseli.2 1 Karl Wria, Baron von Weber (1786-1826), the celebrated German composer. * Henry Fuseli (1741-1825)... | |
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