 ... which it would be difficult to conceal since their writings are professedly to be understood by the few, and it is the many who stand in need of salvation. In such case I should no doubt be tempted to think of the devil in Melmoth...  The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe - Page 387by Edgar Allan Poe - 1859Full view - About this book
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1863 - 460 pages
...the subtleties whieh would make poetry a study — not a )M,ssion — it beeomes the metaphysieian to reason — but the poet to protest. Yet Wordsworth and Coleridge are men in year« ; the one imbued in eontemplation from hi- ehildhood, the other a giant in intelleet and learning.... | |
 | 1874 - 794 pages
...happiness, and pleasure is the end already obtained which instruction ,s merely the means of obtaining." " Against the subtleties which would make poetry a study — not a passion," pursues the fiery-hearted lad, "it becomes the metaphysician to reason — but the poet to protest... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1875 - 400 pages
...should no doubt be tempted to think of the devil in Melmoth, who labours indefatigably through three octavo volumes to accomplish the destruction of one...men in years ; the one imbued in contemplation from childhood, the other a giant in intellect and learning. The diffidence, then, with -which I venture... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1883 - 542 pages
...should no doubt be tempted to think of the devil in Melmoth, who labours indefatigably, through three octavo volumes, to accomplish the destruction of one...Against the subtleties which would make poetry a study * Spoudiotaton kai philosophikotaton genos. — not a passion — it becomes the metaphysician to reason... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1883 - 602 pages
...the devil in "Melmoth," who plots and counterplots through three octavo volumes for the entrapment of one or two souls, while any common devil would have demolished one or two thousand. When, therefore, we assert that these practical-joke publications are not " literature," because not... | |
 | John Phelps Fruit - 1899 - 166 pages
...should no doubt be tempted to think of the devil in ' Melmoth,' who labors indefatigably through three octavo volumes to accomplish the destruction of one...devil would have demolished one or two thousand." Again : " Against the subtleties which would make poetry a study — not a passion — it becomes the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1900 - 538 pages
...should no doubt be tempted to think of the devil in Melmoth, who labours indefatigably, through three octavo volumes, to accomplish the destruction of one...common devil would have demolished one or two thousand. ... j Against the subtleties which would make poetry a study I * Spoudiotaton kai philosophikotaton... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1904 - 266 pages
...should no doubt be tempted to think of the devil in 'Melmoth,' who labors indefatigably, through three octavo volumes, to accomplish the destruction of one...becomes the metaphysician to reason — but the poet to pro test. Yet Wordsworth and Coleridge are men fu years ; the one imbued in contemplation from his... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1906 - 352 pages
...should no doubt be tempted to think of the devil in Melmoth, who labours indefatigably, through three octavo volumes, to accomplish the destruction of one...would have demolished one or two thousand. Against the subleties which would make poetry a study — not a passion — it becomes the metaphysician to reason... | |
 | George Iles - 1908 - 202 pages
...Philosophy of Composition." POETRY A PASSION, NOT A STUDY [Southern Literary Messenger, JULY, 1836] . . . Against the subtleties which would make poetry a study...Wordsworth and Coleridge are men in years; the one embued in contemplation from his childhood, the other a giant in intellect and in learning. The diffidence,... | |
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