 | 1848 - 780 pàgines
...find in this volume, but which is going the rounds of the newspapers, about mesmerism, throwing os all into most admired disorder, or dreadful doubts...horrible improbabilities seem near and familiar." The prose narrative, "M. Valdemar's case" — the story of which Miss Barrett speaks — is the most truth-like... | |
 | 1863 - 480 pàgines
...throwing us all into ' most admired disorder,' or dreadful doubts as to ' whether it can be true.' The certain thing in the tale in question is the power...horrible improbabilities seem near and familiar." We can readily imagine the intense pleasure and gratification which prompted Poe, so often maliciously... | |
 | John Howard Raymond - 1881 - 1296 pàgines
...Mr. Browning, author of Paracelsus, etc., is enthusiastic in his admiration of the rhythm. . . . Then there is a tale of his which I do not find in this...horrible improbabilities seem near and familiar." The prose narrative, " M. Valdemar's Case" — the story of which Miss Barrett speaks — is the most truth-like... | |
 | John Henry Ingram - 1880 - 332 pàgines
...true gratification, however, in these allusions to the work in a letter of Mrs. Browning's:—"Then there is a tale of his which I do not find in this...horrible improbabilities seem near and familiar." To Mrs. Browning Poe now dedicated, in most enthusiastic terms, a new collection of his poems, published... | |
 | John Henry Ingram - 1888 - 264 pàgines
...Barrett, writing to a friend, alludes to the story entitled The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar thus : '' There is a tale of his which I do not find in this...horrible improbabilities seem near and familiar." The great success of her latest literary venture naturally brought Miss Barrett a large increase of correspondence... | |
 | John H. Ingram - 1888 - 348 pàgines
...admired disorder, or dreadful doubts as to whether it can be true, as the children say of ghost-stories. The certain thing in the tale in question is the power...horrible improbabilities seem near and familiar." The great success of her latest literary venture naturally brought Miss Barrett a large increase of correspondence;... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 534 pàgines
...Browning, author of Paracelsus, etc. , is enthusiastic in his admiration of the rhythm. . . . Then there is a tale of his which I do not find in this...horrible improbabilities seem near and familiar." /The prose narrative, " M. Valdemar's Case" — the story of which Miss Barrett speaks — is the most truth-like... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 510 pàgines
...going the round of the newspapers, about mesmerism, throwing us all into " most admired disorder," and dreadful doubts as to whether "it can be true," as...making horrible improbabilities seem near and familiar. And now will you permit me, dear Mr. Poe, as one mho though a stranger is grateful to you, and has... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 496 pàgines
...going the round of the newspapers, about mesmerism, throwing us all into "most admired disorder," and dreadful doubts as to whether "it can be true," as...making horrible improbabilities seem near and familiar. And now will you permit me, dear Mr. Poe, as one who though a stranger is grateful to you, and has... | |
 | James Albert Harrison - 1903 - 512 pàgines
...Mr. Browning, author of Paracelsus, etc., is enthusiastic in his admiration of the rhythm. . . . Then there is a tale of his which I do not find in this...horrible improbabilities seem near and familiar." The prose narrative, " M. Valdemar's Case" — the story of which Miss Barrett speaks — is the most truth-like... | |
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... it can be true, as the children say of ghost stories. The certain thing in the tale in question is the power of the writer, and the faculty he has of making horrible improbabilities seem near and familiar. 
