 | Arthur Hobson Quinn - 1997 - 872 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 will...lost one of its most brilliant but erratic stars. Then followed an account of Foe's life. For some of the errors of fact Griswold was not responsible... | |
 | Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 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 will...lost one of its most brilliant but erratic stars. —The New York Tribune, October 9, 1849 So wrote Edgar Allan Poe's supposed "friend" and literary... | |
 | Let's Go Inc. - 2003 - 448 pages
...this 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 will...lost one of its most brilliant but erratic stars." Since 1949, on the eve of Edgar Allan Poe's birthday a dark stranger creeps to Poe's grave and performs... | |
 | James M. Hutchisson - 2005 - 316 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 will...lost one of its most brilliant but erratic stars. The opening lines paid Poe a backhanded compliment while condemning him in unmitigated terms. The rest... | |
 | John MacLachlan Gray - 2007 - 316 pages
...can but allude to some of the more striking phases. His conversation was at times almost supernatural in its eloquence. His voice was modulated with astonishing...skill, and his large and variably expressive eyes shot fiery tumult into those who listened. Outside the public eye he walked the streets in madness... | |
 | Ernest Augustus Boyd - 1927 - 288 pages
...power in tragical narration." His powers as a writer are not allowed to obscure his other qualities. "His conversation was at times almost supramortal...repose or shot fiery tumult into theirs who listened. . . . His imagery was from the worlds which no mortal can see, but with the vision of genius ... he... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1903 - 390 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. *These remarks were published by Mr. Willis in the "Home Journal," on the Saturday following Mr. Poe's... | |
 | 1850 - 632 pages
...eminent degree that air of gentlemanliness which men of a lower order seldom succeed in acquiring. His conversation wa.s at times almost supramortal...voice was modulated with astonishing skill, and his largo and variably expre.ssive eyes looked repose or shot fiery tumult into theirs who listened, while... | |
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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... 
