The Art of the Short StoryC. Scribner's sons, 1913 - 321 páginas |
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Página 301 - The length, the province, and the tone being thus determined, I betook myself to ordinary induction, with the view of obtaining some artistic piquancy which might serve me as a keynote in the construction of the poem, — some pivot upon which the whole structure might turn.
Página 136 - ... hair falling over his eyes as he did so. Markheim moved a little nearer, with one hand in the pocket of his great-coat ; he drew himself up and filled his lungs ; at the same time many different emotions were depicted together on his face — terror, horror, and resolve, fascination and a physical repulsion ; and through a haggard lift of his upper lip his teeth looked out. " This, perhaps, may suit," observed the dealer ; and then, as he began to re-arise, Markheim bounded from behind upon his...
Página 305 - thing of evil— prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore!
Página 297 - Most writers, poets in especial, prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy, an ecstatic intuition, and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes at the elaborate and vacillating crudities of thought ; at the true purposes seized only at the last moment ; at the innumerable glimpses of idea that arrived not at the maturity of full view...
Página 308 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Página 302 - ... considerations inevitably led me to the long o as the most sonorous vowel in connection with r as the most producible consonant. The sound of the refrain being thus determined, it became necessary to select a word embodying this sound, and at the same time in the fullest possible keeping with that melancholy which I had predetermined as the tone of the poem. In such a search it would have been absolutely impossible to overlook the word
Página 310 - Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Página 128 - I can draw both energy and courage." The features of the visitor began to undergo a wonderful and lovely change: they brightened and softened with a tender triumph; and, even as they brightened, faded and dislimned. But Markheim did not pause to watch or understand the transformation. He opened the door and went downstairs very slowly, thinking to himself. His past went soberly before him ; he beheld it as it was, ugly and strenuous like a dream, random as chance-medley — a scene of defeat.
Página 300 - Truth, in fact, demands a precision, and Passion a homeliness (the truly passionate will comprehend me), which are absolutely antagonistic to that Beauty which, I maintain, is the excitement, or pleasurable elevation, of the soul.
Página 83 - yes, yes." 'You? Impossible ! A mason?' 'A mason,' I replied. 'A sign,