 | John Howard Raymond - 1881 - 1296 pages
...country ; he had readers in England, and in several of the states of Continental Europe ; but be bad few or no friends ; and the regrets for his death...principally by the consideration that in him literary art lost one of its most brilliant, but erratic •tars. The family of Mr. Poe, we learn from Griswold's... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1881 - 588 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 be suggested principally by the cousideration that in him literary art has lost one of its most brilliant but erratic stars." •*•••*•... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, John Henry Ingram - 1902 - 270 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...stars." . . . "His conversation was at times almost super-mortal in its eloquence. His voice was modulated with astonishing skill, and his large and variably... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 534 pages
...country ; he had readers in England, and in several of the states of Continental Europe ; but be bad few or no friends ; and the regrets for his death...principally by the consideration that in him literary art lost one of its most brilliant, but erratic stars. The family of Mr. Poe, we learn from Griswold's... | |
 | James Albert Harrison - 1903 - 556 pages
...country ; he had readers in England, and in several of the states of Continental Europe ; but be had few or no friends ; and the regrets for his death...principally by the consideration that in him literary art lost one of its most brilliant, but erratic stars. The family of Mr. Poe, we learn from Griswold's... | |
 | James Albert Harrison - 1903 - 580 pages
...country ; he had readers in England, and in several of the states of Continental Europe ; but he had fevi or no friends ; and the regrets for his death will...principally by the consideration that in him literary art lost one of its most brilliant, but erratic stars. The family of Mr. Poe, we learn from Griswold's... | |
 | John Wooster Robertson - 1921 - 472 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...principally by the consideration that in him literary art lost one of its most brilliant, but erratic stars. After briefly sketching Poe's early life, and the... | |
 | John Wooster Robertson - Literary Criticism - 1922 - 366 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...principally by the consideration that in him literary art lost one of its most brilliant, but erratic stars. After briefly sketching Poe's early life, and the... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Phillips - Authors, American - 1926 - 846 pages
...grieved by it. The poet was well known personally, or by reputation, . . . but he had few or no friends; literary art . . . [has] lost one of its most brilliant but erratic stars." In Mrs. Whitman's first " Preface " to her 1860 Poe-defence appeared : DR. GRISWOLD'S MEMOIR OF EDGAR... | |
 | Ernest Augustus Boyd - American literature - 1927 - 286 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... | |
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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... 
