 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
 | Novelle - 1925 - 568 pages
...luster 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.... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...luster 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.... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Criticism - 1927 - 956 pages
...lustre over all. His long improvised dirges will ring forever in my ears. ATfiohg other things, I hold iny's over, And the star of my fate hath declined....with me, And the love which my spirit hath painted endeavor to educe more than a small portion which should lie within the compass of merely written words.... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...countenance of the brother; vised dirges will ring forever in my cars. Among other tilings, I hold painfully in mind a certain singular perversion and...by touch, into vaguenesses at which I shuddered the mort thrillingly because I shuddered knowing not why; — from these paintings (vivid as their images... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Literary Collections - 1975 - 1042 pages
...lustre over all. His long improvised dirges will ring forever in my ears. Among other things, I hold of the flower Weher. From the paintings over which his elaborate fancy brooded, and which grew, touch by touch, into... | |
 | Edward Lockspeiser - Music - 1978 - 374 pages
...alive 1 The allusion is to this passage in The Fall of the Houses/ Usher: '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.' 2 Debussy surely knew of the existence of his English cousin Lucie Madeline de Bussy, daughter of his... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 2004 - 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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 1984 - 1440 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.... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 1993 - 320 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...amplification of the wild air of the last waltz of Von Weber.3 From the paintings over which his elaborate fancy brooded, and which grew, touch by touch,... | |
 | Kenneth Silverman - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 152 pages
...lean on reality, Roderick distorts that reality beyond any ordinary recognition. An example is his "singular perversion and amplification of the wild air of the last waltz of Von Weber" (405). The narrator is enthralled as he watches Roderick's paintings grow "touch by touch into vaguenesses."... | |
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