 | Kathryn Schultz Miller - 1981 - 28 oldal
...proper topics for enduring literature. [Paces as if conducting a lecture/ Of all melancholy topics-what, according to the universal understanding of mankind, is the most melancholy? Death is the obvious reply. The death, then, of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 oldal
...one hundred lines. Now, never losing sight of the object supremeness, or perfection, at all points, 4 From what I have already explained at some length, the answer, here also, is obvious — "When it most... | |
 | Michael J. S. Williams - 1988 - 210 oldal
..."effects should be made to spring from direct causes" (CW 14:198), he arrives at his fittest topic: " 'Of all melancholy topics, what, according to the...melancholy of topics most poetical?' . . . The answer ... is obvious — 'When it most closely allies itself to Beauty: the death, then, of a beautiful woman... | |
 | Peter J. Conn - 1989 - 624 oldal
...from these premises his sensationally vulgar conclusion about the "most poetical" of all subjects: I asked myself - "of all melancholy topics, what,..."is this most melancholy of topics most poetical?" From what 1 have already explained at some length, the answer here also is obvious - "When it most... | |
 | Louis J. Budd, Edwin Harrison Cady - 1993 - 308 oldal
...I shall presently return, that a melancholy tone most greatly facilitated his purpose, he wrote: " 'Of all melancholy topics, what, according to the...'is this most melancholy of topics most poetical?' From what I have already explained at some length, the answer here also is obvious — 'When it most... | |
 | Michael Hanke - 1994 - 164 oldal
...lautet im Zusammenhang: Now, never losing sight of the object supremeness, or perfection, at all points, I asked myself, - 'Of all melancholy topics, what,...the universal understanding of mankind, is the most melancholy9' Death - was the obvious reply. 'And when,' I said, 'is this most melancholy of topics... | |
 | Madison Smartt Bell - 2000 - 396 oldal
...about one hundred lines. Now, never losing sight of object supremeness, or perfection at all points, I asked myself— "Of all melancholy topics, what,..."is this most melancholy of topics most poetical?" From what I have already explained at some length, the answer, here also, is obvious— "When it most... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Leonard Cassuto - 1999 - 228 oldal
...one hundred lines. Now, never losing sight of the object supremeness, or perfection, at all points, I asked myself — "Of all melancholy topics, what,..."is this most melancholy of topics most poetical?" From what I have already explained at some length, the answer, here also, is obvious — "When it most... | |
 | Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 oldal
...literature) has to teach a lesson. 5. Finally, the subject: "Now, never losing sight of the object... I asked myself— "Of all melancholy topics what,..."is this most melancholy of topics most poetical?" From what I have already explained at some length the answer here also is obvious — "When it most... | |
 | Wendy Steiner - 2002 - 332 oldal
...would be more suitable for melancholy. And what theme would be most conducive to all this sadness? I asked myself — "Of all melancholy topics, what,...melancholy?" Death — was the obvious reply. "And when . . . is this most melancholy of topics most poetical?" . . . the answer ... is obvious — "When it... | |
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Of all melancholy topics what, according to the universal understanding of mankind, is the most melancholy?" Death, was the obvious reply. "And when," I said, "is this most melancholy of topics most poetical?" From what I have already explained at some... 
