 | Charles Lamb - 1808 - 512 sidor
...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 - 1813 - 502 sidor
...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 - 1818 - 288 sidor
...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. —... | |
 | 1904 - 738 sidor
...Co. 1904. THE DRAMA. " 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." Such is Lamb's verdict, which is endorsed by Swinburne, and accepted by critics in general. In the... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1830 - 398 sidor
...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.... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1830 - 384 sidor
...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 - 1835 - 376 sidor
...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.—This... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 390 sidor
...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 afftightments are without decorum. The White Devil, or Vittoria Corombona. —... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 sidor
...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 wkh painted devils;" but they know not how a soul is to* be moved'. Their terrors want dignity, their... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 802 sidor
...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...instruments to take its last forfeit : this only a AVcbster can do. Writers of an inferior genius may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate" but they... | |
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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... 
