 ... the elaborate and vacillating crudities of thought, at the true purposes seized only at the last moment, at the innumerable glimpses of idea that arrived not at the maturity of full view, at the fully matured fancies discarded in despair as unmanageable,...  The American Whig Review - Pagina 2911850Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Kevin J. Hayes - 2002 - 290 pagina’s
...the narrow sense of "stage properties," rather than the wider meaning of "general characteristics": "the wheels and pinions - the tackle for scene-shifting...cock's feathers, the red paint and the black patches" (E&R, 14). Poe's stylish metaphor runs away with itself here and obscures with visual color the preceding... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1875 - 542 pagina’s
...of thought — -at the true purposes seized only at the last moment — at the innumerable glimpses of idea that arrived not at the maturity of full view...feathers, the red paint and the black patches, which, in ninety -nine cases out of the hundred, constituted the properties of the literary histrio. I am aware,... | |
 | 1914 - 464 pagina’s
...crudities of thought, at the true purposes seized only at the last moment — at the innumerable glimpses of idea that arrived not at the maturity of full view,...scene-shifting, the stepladders and demon-traps, the cook's feathers, the red paint and the black patches, which in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred... | |
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