 ... upon opium, the bitter lapse into everyday life, the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the...  The American Whig Review - Seite 2881850Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1903 - 396 Seiten
...imagination could torture into aught of (I 4S ) . the sublime. What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of...grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 542 Seiten
...the heart — an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it — I paused...contemplation of the House of Usher ? It was a mystery all unsoluble ; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was... | |
 | 1904 - 496 Seiten
...of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness of thought, which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it — I paused...grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion that while, beyond doubt,... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - 1904 - 358 Seiten
...the heart — an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it — I paused...grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion that while, beyond doubt,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1904 - 210 Seiten
...the heart — an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it — I paused...grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me aa I pondered. I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt,... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - 1904 - 296 Seiten
...the heart, 5 an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it — I paused...a mystery all insoluble ; nor could I grapple with 10 the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - 1904 - 296 Seiten
...the heart, 5 an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it — I paused...a mystery all insoluble ; nor could I grapple with 10 the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory... | |
 | Gertrude Buck, Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - 1906 - 226 Seiten
...of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness of thought, which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it — I paused...grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt,... | |
 | Chester Noyes Greenough - 1906 - 330 Seiten
...House of Usher," in Foe's Works, ed. Stedman and Woodberry, I, 131 ff. Stone & Kimball, Chicago, 1894. that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House...•with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt,... | |
 | 1907 - 392 Seiten
...the heart — an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it — I paused...grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt,... | |
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