 An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphureous lustre over all. His long improvised dirges will ring forever in my ears. Among other things, I hold painfully in mind a certain singular perversion and amplification of the wild air of the...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 161edited by - 1840Full view - About this book
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 508 pages
...lustre over all. His long improvised dirges will ring forever in my ears. 9. Among other things, I hold painfully in mind a certain singular perversion and...as their images now are before me) I would in vain endeavor to educe more than a small portion which should lie within the compass of merely written words.... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1878 - 450 pages
...lustre over all. His long improvised dirges will ring forever in my ears. Among other things, I hold painfully in mind a certain singular perversion and...which grew, touch by touch, into vaguenesses at which 1 shuddered the more thrillingly, because I shuddered knowing not why ; — from these paintings (vivid... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1879 - 508 pages
...luster over all. His long improvised dirges will ring forever in my ears. 9. Among other things, I hold painfully in mind a certain singular perversion and...amplification of the wild air of the " Last Waltz of Yon Weber." From the paintings over which his elaborate fancy brooded, and which grew, touch by touch,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American literature - 1884 - 600 pages
...lustre over all. His long improvised dirges will ring forever in my ears. Among other things, I hold painfully in mind a certain singular perversion and...as their images now are before me) I would in vain endeavor to educe more than a small portion which should lie within the compass of merely written words.... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...lustre over all. His long improvised dirges will ring forever in my ears. Among other things, I hold painfully in mind a certain singular perversion and...more thrillingly, because I shuddered knowing not why;—from these paintings (vivid as their images now are before me) I would in vain endeavor to educe... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...lustre over all. His long improvised dirges will ring forever in my ears. Among other things, I hold painfully in mind a certain singular perversion and...at which I shuddered the more thrillingly, because 1 shuddered knowing not why ; — from these paintings (vivid as their images now are before me) I... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Anthologies - 1896 - 466 pages
...lustre over all. His long improvised dirges will ring forever in my ears. Among other things, I hold painfully in mind a certain singular perversion and...as their images now are before me) I would in v"ain endeavor to educe more than a small portion which should lie within the compass of merely written words.... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 256 pages
...lustre over all. His long improvised dirges will ring for ever in my ears. Among other things, I hold painfully in mind a certain singular perversion and...more thrillingly, because I shuddered knowing not why—from these paintings (vivid as their images now are before me) I would in vain endeavour to educe... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1898 - 228 pages
...lustre over all. His long, improvised dirges will ring forever in my ears. Among other things, I hold painfully in mind a certain singular perversion and...amplification of the wild air of the last waltz of Von Weber.1 From the paintings over which his elaborate fancy brooded, and which grew, touch by touch,... | |
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