 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 404 pages
...and the souls in bale. To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till...know not how a soul is to be moved. Their terrors want dignity, their affrightments are without decorum. The White Devil, or Vittoria Corombona. —... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...and the souls in bale. To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till...mistake quantity for quality ; they " terrify babes >wilh painted devils ;" but they know not how a soul is to be moved. Their terrors want dignity, their... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1844 - 330 pages
...mortification by degrees ! To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till...take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Writers of an inferior genius may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate " but they cannot do this.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 492 pages
...mortification by degrees ! To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till...take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Writers of an inferior genius may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate," but they cannot do this.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 466 pages
...To move a horror skilfully," says Lamb, — " to touch a soul to the quick, — to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, — to wean and weary a life...take its last forfeit, — this only a Webster can db. Writers of an inferior genius may ' upon horror's head horrors accumulate,' but they cannot do... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 484 pages
...mortal instruments to take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Writers of an inferior genius may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate," but...with painted devils," but they know not how a soul is capable of being moved ; their terrors want dignity, their affrightmenta are without decorum. Single... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 752 pages
...English Dramatists. [July, skilfully," says Lamb, " to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till...its last forfeit, — this only a Webster can do." Few dramatists, indeed, equal him in the steadiness with which he gazes into the awful depths of passion,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 550 pages
...looks." " To move a horror skilfully," says Lamb, " to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till...its last forfeit, — this only a Webster can do." Few dramatists, indeed, equal him in the steadiness with which he gazes into the awful depths of passion,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...alone having the power " to move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till...with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit." Lamb adds, " Writers of inferior genius mistake quantity for quality." The remark is quite true, —... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1851 - 964 pages
...touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till.it is ready to drop, and then step in with .mortal instruments...know not how a soul is to be moved. Their terrors want dignity, their affrightments are without decorum. The White Devil, or Vittoria Corombona. —... | |
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To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Inferior... 
