 | Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1850 - 642 oldal
...field for the exercise of the loftiest talent, which can be afforded by the wide domains of mere prose. "Were I bidden to say how the highest genius could be most advantageously employed for tho b,est display of its own powers, I should answer, without hesitation — in the composition of... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 oldal
...field for the exercise of the loftiest talent, which can be afforded by the wide domains of mere prose. Were I bidden to say how the highest genius could...display of its own powers, I should answer, without hesitation—in the composition of a rhymed poem, not to exceed in length what might be perused in... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1896 - 384 oldal
...field for the exercise of the loftiest talent, which can be afforded by the wide domains of mere prose. Were I bidden to say how the highest genius could...employed for the best display of its own powers, I 29 should answer, without hesitation — in the composition of a rhymed poem, not to exceed in length... | |
 | William Malone Baskervill, James Witt Sewell - 1895 - 358 oldal
...; but when the verb precedes the subject, the conjunction is often omitted : for example, " Were / bidden to say how the highest genius could be most advantageously employed," etc. Exercise. In the following conditional clauses, tell whether each Verb is indicative or subjunctive,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 560 oldal
...the exercise of the loftiest talent, which can be afforded by the wide domains of mere prose. Were we bidden to say how the highest genius could be most...advantageously employed for the best display of its own powers, we should answer, without hesitation — in the composition of a rhymed poem, not to exceed in length... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1907 - 322 oldal
...field for the exercise of the loftiest talent which can be afforded by the wide domain of mere prose. Were I bidden to say how the highest genius could...advantageously employed for the best display of its powers, I should answer without hesitation in the composition of the rhymed poem not to exceed in length... | |
 | William Meredith Morris - 1908 - 320 oldal
...to urge on general grounds in favour of brevity. " "Were I bidden to say," says Edgar Allan Poe, " how the highest genius could be most advantageously...rhymed poem, not to exceed in length what might be read in an hour." A very sensible observation. We have all felt how difficult it is, in reading a long... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - 1909 - 508 oldal
...the exercise of the loftiest talent, which can be afforded by the wide domains of mere prose. Were we bidden to say how the highest genius could be most...advantageously employed for the best display of its own powers, we should answer, without hesitation — in the composition of a rhymed poem, not to exceed in length... | |
 | Alfred Reichert - 1912 - 152 oldal
...wenn über die Short-story gefchrieben wurde, feien fie auch hier und zwar in extenso wiedergegeben: „Were I bidden to say how the highest genius could...rhymed poem, not to exceed in length what might be 1 Matthews, aa O., S. 16. * The Choice Works of Edgar Allan Poe, S. 660ff. 1 ibid., S. 628ff. 16 perused... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1915 - 680 oldal
...the exercise of the loftiest talent, which can be afforded by the wide domains of mere prose. Were we bidden to say how the highest genius could be most...advantageously employed for the best display of its own powers, 5 we should answer, without hesitation — in the composition of a rhymed poem, not. to exceed in length... | |
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... in the composition of a rhymed poem, not to exceed in length what might be perused in an hour. 
