 I was at once struck with an incoherence, an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy, an excessive nervous agitation. For something of this nature I had indeed been...  The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With a Memoir - Page 296by Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1857Full view - About this book
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1839 - 368 pages
...by his letter, tfian by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from hie peculiar physical conformation and temperament. His...concision — that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, and hollow-eounding enunciation — that leaden, self-balanced and perfectly modulated guttural utterance,... | |
 | 1839 - 372 pages
...by hie letter, than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from bis peculiar physical conformation and temperament. His...from a tremulous indecision (when the animal spirits teemed utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic concision — that abrupt, weighty, unhurried,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 pages
...nervous agitation. For something of this nature I had indeed been prepared, no less by his letter than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions...and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be observed in the moments of the intensest excitement of the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 688 pages
...less by his letter than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from bis peculiar physical conformation and temperament. His...and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be observed in the moments of the intensest excitement of the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1845 - 288 pages
...agitation. For something of this nature I had indeed been prepared, no less by his letter, than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions...and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be observed in the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 578 pages
...agitation. For something of this nature I had indeed been prepared, no less by his letter, than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions...and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be observed in the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1871 - 556 pages
...I had indeed been prepared, no less by his letter, than by reminiscences of certain boyish Iraits, and by conclusions deduced from his peculiar physical...and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be observed in the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1874 - 644 pages
...nervous agitation. For something of this nature I had indeed been prepared, no less by his letter than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions...self-balanced and perfectly modulated guttural utterance which may be observed in the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1874 - 216 pages
...nervous agitation. For something of this nature I had indeed been prepared, no less by his letter than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions...and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be observed in the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 618 pages
...prepared, no less by his letter, than by reminiscences of certain Iwyish traits, and bv conclusious deduced from his peculiar physical conformation and...and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be observed in the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his... | |
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