 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
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer - Fiction - 2000 - 756 pages
...lustre over all. His long improvised dirges will ring forever in my ears. Among other things, I hold6 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 - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 408 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...the wild air of the last waltz of Von Weber. From 6Mental illness and creativity are associated frequently in Poe, and beauty is always exotic, outre,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 2001 - 194 pages
...lustre over all. His long improvised dirges will ring forever in my ears. Among other things, 1 hold painfully in mind a certain singular perversion and...fancy brooded, and which grew, touch by touch, into 22 vaguenesses at which I shuddered the more thrillingly, hecause I shuddered knowing not why; - from... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Juvenile Fiction - 2003 - 448 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 - 2003 - 196 pages
...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...as their images now are before me) I would in vain endeavor 3 From "Invitation to the Dance," one of the most popular works by Carl Maria von Weber (l786-l826).... | |
 | Katalin G. Kállay - Fiction - 2003 - 178 pages
...why is the memory of such shudders so important? He remembers the notes of Usher's peculiar music: "His long improvised dirges will ring for ever in...amplification of the wild air of the last waltz of Von Weber." He "shudder[s] [...] thrillingly" from Usher's paintings, and makes the following remark: "By the utter... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 2003 - 196 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.3 From the paintings over which his elaborate fancy brooded, and which grew, touch by touch,... | |
 | Sarah Walden - Artists - 2003 - 268 pages
...laundered ducks.' Walter Richard Sickert1 'If ever mortal painted an idea, that man was Roderick Usher. The paintings over which his elaborate fancy brooded and which grew touch by touch into vagueness at which I shuddered the more thrillingly ... By the utter simplicity and nakedness of his... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 2009 - 580 pages
...ears. Among other things, I hold painfully in mind a certain singular perversion and amplifiestion of the wild air of the last waltz of Von Weber. From...touch, into vaguenesses at which I shuddered the more thrOlingly, because I shuddered knowing not why; — from these paintings (vivid as theii images now... | |
 | Brett Zimmerman - Literary Collections - 2005 - 440 pages
...in dependent or subordinate relationships. Here is an instance in "The Fall of the House of Usher": From the paintings over which his elaborate fancy brooded, and which grew, touch by touch, into vagueness at which I shuddered the more thrillingly, because I shuddered knowing not why; - from these... | |
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