 | Edmund John Armstrong - 1877 - 342 Seiten
...ghastly pallor of his skin, the miraculous lustre of his eye, bespeak a mind diseased. His action is alternately vivacious and sullen. "His voice varied rapidly from a tremulous indecision to that species of energetic concision — that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, and hollow-sounding enunciation... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1878 - 450 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1878 - 510 Seiten
...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...utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic cpncision — that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, and hollow-sounding enunciation — that leaden, self-balanced,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1884 - 454 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1884 - 600 Seiten
...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 deduced from his peculiar physical confirmation and temperament. His action was alternately vivacious and sullen. His voice varied rapidly... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1885 - 304 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 Seiten
...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...rapidly from a tremulous indecision (when the animal spirit seemed utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic concision — that abrupt, weighty,... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 Seiten
...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...rapidly from a tremulous indecision (when the animal spirit seemed utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic concision -—that abrupt, weighty,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1889 - 360 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1894 - 382 Seiten
...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...unhurried, and hollow-sounding enunciation — that leaden, self-bal anced and perfectly modulated guttural utterance — which may be observed in the lost drunkard,... | |
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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... 
