 His voice varied rapidly from a tremulous indecision (when the animal spirits seemed utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic concision — that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, and hollow-sounding enunciation — that leaden, self-balanced and perfectly...  Works - Seite 298von Edgar Allan Poe - 1876Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1908 - 428 Seiten
...prepared, no less by his letter than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from his peculiar physical conformation and...energetic concision, that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, i and hollow-sounding enunciation, that leaden, selfbalanced, and perfectly modulated guttural utterance,... | |
 | 1907 - 404 Seiten
...agitation. His voice varied rapidly from a tremulous indecision to that species of energetic concision which may be observed in the lost drunkard, or the...irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his most intense excitement. It was thus that he spoke of the object of my visit, of his earnest desire to see... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1908 - 504 Seiten
...sullen. His voice varied rapidly from tremulous indecision, when the animal spirits were in abeyance, to that leaden, self-balanced, and perfectly modulated...observed in the lost drunkard or the irreclaimable opium-eater, during the periods of intense excitement. He entered at some length into an explanation... | |
 | 1909 - 550 Seiten
...prepared, no less by his letter than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from his peculiar physical conformation and...irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his most intense excitement. It was thus that he spoke of the object of my visit, of his earnest desire to see... | |
 | Edwin Mims - 1910 - 460 Seiten
...by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from his peculiar phys' ical conformation and temperament. His action was alternately...irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his most intense excitement. It was thus that he spoke of the object of my visit, of his earnest desire to see... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1911 - 408 Seiten
...prepared, no less by his letter than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from his peculiar physical conformation and...irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his most intense excitement. It was thus that he spoke of the object of my visits of his earnest desire to see... | |
 | Walter B. Pitkin - 1913 - 292 Seiten
...of his fluctuating voice, "varying rapidly from a tremulous indecision (when the animal spirits seem utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic...utterance, which may be observed in the lost drunkard . . ." Was there ever such a voice? And does the lost drunkard possess it? I do not believe it, and... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1914 - 344 Seiten
...prepared, no less by his letter, than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from his peculiar physical conformation and...irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his most intense excitement. It was thus that he spoke of the object of my visit, of his earnest desire to see... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1914 - 544 Seiten
...prepared, no less by his letter, than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from his peculiar physical conformation and...irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his most intense excitement. It was thus that he spoke of the object of my visit, of his earnest desire to see... | |
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1914 - 396 Seiten
...physical conformation and temperament. His action was alternately vivacious and sullen. His voice 10 varied rapidly from a tremulous indecision (when the...perfectly modulated guttural utterance — which may 15 be observed in the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his... | |
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