 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 298 pages
...eminent degree, that air of gentlemanliness which men of a lower order seldom succeed in acquiring. His conversation was, at times, almost supra-mortal...modulated with astonishing skill, and his large and variably-expressive eyes looked repose or shot fiery tumult into theirs who listened, while his own... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1852 - 776 pages
...have here borrowed from Mr. Grimswold's memoir, we must add. in that gentleman's words, that Poe's conversation was at times almost supra-mortal in its eloquence. His voice was modulated with the most astonishing skill, and his imagery was from the worlds which no mortal can see but with the... | |
 | 1852 - 610 pages
...we have here borrowed from Mr. Griswold's memoir, we must add, in that gentleman's words, that Poe's conversation was at times almost supra-mortal in its eloquence. His voice was modulated with the most astonishing skill, and his imagery was from the worlds which no mortal can see but with the... | |
 | 1852 - 782 pages
...borrowed from Mr. Grimswold's memoir, we must add, in that gentleman's words, that Poe's conversation M'as at times almost supra-mortal in its eloquence. His voice was modulated with the most astonishing skill, and his imagery was from the worlds which no mortal can see but with the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 pages
...country ; he had readers in England, and in several of the states of Continental Europe ; but he had few or no friends ; and the regrets for his death...consideration that in him literary art has lost one of ita most brilliant but erratic stars." ******* " His conversation was at times almost supra-mortal... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1857 - 560 pages
...country ; he had readers in England, and in several of the states of Continental Europe ; but he had few or no friends ; and the regrets for his death...lost one of its most brilliant but erratic stars." aaaa*ea " His conversation was at times almost supra-mortal in its eloquence His voice was modulated... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1859 - 558 pages
...eminent degree that air of gentlemanliness which men of a lower order seldom succeed in acquiring. His conversation was at times almost supra-mortal...astonishing skill, and his large and' variably expressive eyf s looked repose or shot fiery tumult into theirs who listened, while his own face glowed, or was... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1871 - 556 pages
...eminent degree that air of gentle manliness which men of a lower order seldom succeed in acquiring. His conversation was at times almost supra-mortal...expressive eyes looked repose or shot fiery tumult into iheirs who listened, while his own face glowed, or was changeless in pallor, as his imagination quickened... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1869 - 298 pages
...which appeared in a recent number of the Tribune : — • states of Continental Europe; but he had few or no friends ; and the regrets for his death...principally by the consideration that in him literary art Las lost one of its most brilliant but erratic stars." * » * " His conversation was at times almost... | |
 | 1871 - 612 pages
...country; he had readers in England, and in several of the states of Continental Europe; but he had few or no friends ; and the regrets for his death...lost one of its most brilliant but erratic stars." In the.course of a tolerably lengthy notice, Dr. Griswold sums up his account of Poe in the following... | |
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This announcement will startle many, but few will be grieved by it. The poet was known, personally or by reputation, in all this country; he had readers in England, and in several of the states of Continental Europe ; but he... 
