 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1897 - 590 páginas
...its last forfeit — this only a Webster can do. Writers of an inferior genius may ' upon horroi*'s head horrors accumulate,' but they cannot do this....with painted devils,' but they know not how a soul is capable of being moved ; their terrors want dignity, their affrightments are without decorum." We must... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1898 - 258 páginas
...than in long speeches. "To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till...to take its last forfeit, this only a Webster can do."1 Thomas Middleton was born about 1570. He studied law at Gray's Inn, and became connected with... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1899 - 492 páginas
...Charles Lamb wrote : 'To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till...take its last forfeit: this only a Webster can do. Writers of an inferior j genius may " upon horror's head horrors I accumulate," but they cannot do... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1899 - 406 páginas
...oft-quoted words of Lamb, To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till...in with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit : His Command of Terror His Knowledge of Abnormal Life this only a Webster can do. Writers of an inferior... | |
 | 1901 - 544 páginas
...mortification by degrees? To move a horror skillfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till...take its last forfeit — this only a Webster can do. Writers of an inferior genius may 'upon horror's head horrors accumulate,' but they cannot do this.... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 634 páginas
...and the souls in bale. To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till...know not how a soul is to be moved. Their terrors want dignity, their afrrightments are without decorum. The White Devil, or Vittoria Corombona. —... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1903 - 422 páginas
...mortification by degrees 1 To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till...take its last forfeit— this only a Webster can do. Writers of an inferior genius may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate," but they cannot do this.... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 420 páginas
...mortification by degrees! To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till...take its last forfeit — this only a Webster can do. Writers of an inferior genius may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate," but they cannot do this.... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1903 - 642 páginas
...with just eloquence: "To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till...take its last forfeit, this only a Webster can do." l A remarkable achievement ! But it should not blind our judgment to the enormous interval that lies... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1904 - 686 páginas
...mortification by degrees ! To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till...take its last forfeit — this only a Webster can do. Writers of an inferior genius may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate," but they cannot do this.... | |
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To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Inferior... 
