 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...  The popular educator - Strana 327podľa Popular educator - 1884Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Arthur Aikin - 1809 - Počet stránok 832
...quick, to lay upon fear as much a« it can bear, to wean ami weary л life till il is ready to drop ar.d then step in with mortal instruments to take its last...an inferior genius may ' upon horror's head horrors accuniulatc-,' but they cannot do thi«: They mistake quantity for quahly, they ' terrify babes with... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - Počet stránok 288
...has a smatch of Tartarus 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...take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate," but they cannot do this. They mistake... | |
 | 1904 - Počet stránok 738
...Londom : Swan Sonnenschein k Co. 1904. THE DRAMA. " To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to...take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do." Such is Lamb's verdict, which is endorsed by Swinburne, and accepted by critics in general. In the... | |
 | 1832 - Počet stránok 368
...Ьоггог skilfully, tó touch a sore to the quick, to lay upon fear аз much as it can bear, to wear and weary : a life till it is ready to drop, and then to step in with mortal instrument to take . it* last forfeit: this ¡only a Webster. can do, ' Writers... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - Počet stránok 390
...has a srnatch of Tartarus 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...take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate," but they cannot do this. They mistake... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - Počet stránok 376
...has a -match of Tartarus 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...take its last forfeit: this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate," but they cannot do this. They mistake... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - Počet stránok 440
...has a smatch of Tartarus 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...take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may "upon horror's head horrors accumulate," but they cannot do this. They mistake... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - Počet stránok 802
...living person's dirge, the 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...instruments to take its last forfeit : this only a AVcbster can do. Writers of an inferior genius may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate" but they... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - Počet stránok 404
...has a smatch of Tartarus 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...take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate," but they cannot do this. They mistake... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - Počet stránok 486
...has a smatch of Tartarus 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...take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate," but they cannot do this. They mistake... | |
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