 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 Westminster Review - Pàgina 2351904Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1867 - 878 pàgines
...masque of madmen, the tomb-maker, the bellman, tho living person's dirge, tho mortification by degrees ! To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the...drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to tako its last forfeit — this only a Webster can do. Writers of an inferior genius may ' upon horror's... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1808 - 512 pàgines
...of madmen, the tomb-maker, the bell-man, the living person's dirge, the mortification by degrees ! To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the...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 - 1813 - 508 pàgines
...of madmen, the tomb-maker, the bell-man, the living person's dirge, the mortification by degrees ! To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the...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 - 1818 - 288 pàgines
...element." She speaks the dialect of despair ; her tongue has a smatch of Tartarus and the souls in bale. To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the...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... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1830 - 384 pàgines
...gentleman. EXECUT. Here's your wedding-ring. man, the living person's dirge, the mortification by degrees ! To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the...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.... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1830 - 398 pàgines
...gentleman. EXECUT. Here's your wedding-ring. man, the living person's dirge, the mortification by degrees ! To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the...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.... | |
 | 1832 - 368 pàgines
...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 - 376 pàgines
...element." She speaks the dialect of despair; her tongue has a -match of Tartarus and the souls in bale. To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the...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 - 440 pàgines
...element." She speaks the dialect of despair ; her tongue has a smatch of Tartarus and the souls in bale. To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the...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 - 390 pàgines
...element." She speaks the dialect of despair ; her tongue has a srnatch of Tartarus and the souls in bale. To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the...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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