 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 pages
...after-dream of the reveller upon opium — the bitter lapse into every-day life — the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening...contemplation of the House of Usher ? It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was forced... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American prose literature - 1916 - 798 pages
...after-dream of the reveller upon opium — the bitter lapse into every-day life — the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening...contemplation of the House of Usher ? It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was forced... | |
 | James Murgeon Flagg - 1916 - 234 pages
...that walks a lonesome road under a strain of self imposed horror. There was an iciness, a sinking and sickening of the heart — an unredeemed dreariness...imagination could torture into aught of the sublime; for the life of me, could I thoroughly account for certain peculiar misgivings and with great reluctance... | |
 | Authur Huntington Nason - English language - 1917 - 552 pages
...after-dream of the reveler upon opium: the bitter lapse into everyday life, the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening...contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was forced... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1917 - 550 pages
...after-dream of the reveler upon opium: the bitter lapse into everyday life, the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening...contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble ; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was... | |
 | Joseph Berg Esenwein - Short stories - 1918 - 490 pages
...after-dream of the reveler upon opium: the bitter lapse into every-day life, the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening...contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadow fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was forced... | |
 | Joseph Berg Esenwein - Short stories - 1918 - 486 pages
...after-dream of the reveler upon opium: the bitter lapse into every-day life, the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening...in the contemplation of the House of Usher? It was at mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadow fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered.... | |
 | Clayton Meeker Hamilton - Fiction - 1918 - 268 pages
...afterdream of the reveler upon opium: the bitter lapse into every-day life, the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening...imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. . . . It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene,... | |
 | Irwin Edman - Social psychology - 1919 - 480 pages
...reveller upon opium; the bitter lapse into everyday life, the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart, an unredeemed...unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher. To Aristotle tragedy seemed to afford a cleansing or 'katharsis of the soul' through the sympathetic... | |
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... an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium, the bitter lapse into everyday life, the hideous dropping off of the veil. 
