 The universality of its employment sufficed to assure me of its intrinsic value, and spared me the necessity of submitting it to analysis. I considered it, however, with regard to its susceptibility of improvement, and soon saw it to be in a primitive...  With Friend and Book: In the Study and the Fields - Page 53by John Rogers Rees - 1892 - 84 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 522 pages
...with regard to its susceptibility of improvement, and soon saw • it to be in a primitive eondition. As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only...the force of monotone — both in sound and thought. Th8_pJe.asur£Js deducgcLsoIely from the sense of identity — of repetition. I resolved to diversify,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 522 pages
...however, with regard to its susceptibility of improvement, and soon saw it to be in a primitive condition. As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only is limited to lyric verse, but depends for its impn.ssion upon the force of monotone — both in sound and thought. The pleasure is deduced solely... | |
 | 1880 - 798 pages
...susceptibility of improvement, and soon saw it to be in a print itive condition. As commonly used, the rtfrain, or burden, not only is limited to lyric verse, but...thought. The pleasure is deduced solely from the sense 276 EDGAR ALLAN POE. 277 of identity — of repetition. I resolved to diversify, and so heighten the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1881 - 588 pages
...however, with regard to its susceptibility of improvement, and soon saw it to be in a primitive condition. As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only...and thought. The pleasure is deduced solely from the seuse of identity — of repetition. I resolved to diversify, and so heighten, the effect, by adhering,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1883 - 542 pages
...however, with regard to its susceptibility of improvement, and soon saw it to be in a primitive condition. As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only...repetition. I resolved to diversify, and so heighten the efl'oet, by adhering in general to the monotone of sound, while I continually varied that of thought... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...however, with regard to its susceptibility of improvement, and soon saw it to be in a primitive condition. As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only...sound and thought. The pleasure is deduced solely froni the sense of identity, — of repetition. I resolved to diversify and so heighten the effect... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 pages
...however, with regard to its susceptibility of improvement, and soon saw it to be in a primitive condition. As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only...to lyric verse, but depends for its impression upon tbe force of monotone, both in sound and thought. The pleasure is deduced solely from the sense of... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Clarence Stedman, George Edward Woodberry - 1895 - 376 pages
...primitive condition. As mm- ,\ monly used, the refrain, or burden, not only i<: UmitpH • tcTlyric verse, but depends for its impression upon the force...diversify, and so heighten, the effect, by adhering, in ^eneralt to the monotone of sound, while I continually varied ~that of thought: that is to say, I determined... | |
 | Chauncey C. Starkweather - 1900 - 450 pages
...however, with regard to its susceptibility of improvement, and soon saw it to be in a primitive condition. As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only...verse, but depends for its impression upon the force of monotone—both in sound and thought. The pleasure is deduced solely from the sense of identity—of... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 708 pages
...however, with regard to its susceptibility of improvement, and soon saw it to be in a primitive condition. As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only...diversify, and so heighten, the effect, by adhering, in genera!, to the monotone of sound, while I continually varied that of thought : that is to say, I determined... | |
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