 | 1850 - 762 pages
...rejections — at the painful erasures and interpolations — in a word, at the wheels and pinions — the tackle for scene-shifting — the step-ladders...constitute the properties of the literary histrio". 1ц what follows, wherein he goes minntely into his process of composition, though, in general, true,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 522 pages
...rejections — at the painful erasures and interpolations — in a word, at the, wheels and pinions — the tackle for scene-shifting — the step-ladders...constitute the properties of the literary histrio. I am aware, on the other hand, that the case is by no means common, in which an author is at all in... | |
 | William R. Lyth - 1854 - 132 pages
...at the wheels and piuions — the tackle fur scene shifting — the step ladders and demon traps — the cock's feathers, the red paint and the black patches, which, in ninety-uine cases out of thehundred, constitute the properties of the literary histrio." See Page 43.... | |
 | 1861 - 438 pages
...and rejections; at. the painful erasures and interpolations; in a word, at the wheels and pinions, the tackle for scene-shifting, the step-ladders and...constitute the properties of the literary histrio. On the other hand, the case is by no means common in which an author is at nil in condition to retrace... | |
 | Walter Maynard (pseud. [i.e. Thomas Willert Beale.]), Thomas Willert Beale - 1867 - 438 pages
...a word, at the wheels and pinions, the tackle for scene shifting, the step ladders and demon traps, the cock's feathers, the red paint, and the black...constitute the properties of the literary histrio. On the other hand, the case is by no means common in which an author is at all in condition to retrace... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 522 pages
...rejections — at the painful erasures and interpolations — in a word, at the wheels and pinions — the tackle for scene-shifting — the step-ladders...hundred, constitute the properties of the literary his trio. I am aware, on the other hand, that the case is by no means common, in which an author is... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1879 - 336 pages
...rejections — at the painful erasures and interpolations — in a word, at the wheels and pinions — the tackle for scene-shifting — the step-ladders...hundred, constitute the properties of the literary hislrio. I am aware, on the other hand, that the case is by no means common, in which an author is... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1881 - 588 pages
...painful erasures • and • interpolatious — in a word, at the wheels and pinious — the tacklo for scene-shifting — the step-ladders and demon-traps...patches, which, in ninetynine cases out of the hundred, coustitute the properties of the literary histrio, I am aware, on the other hand, that the case is... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1882 - 226 pages
...rejections — at the painful erasures and interpolations — in a word, at the wheels and pinions — the tackle for scene-shifting — the step-ladders...constitute the properties of the literary histrio. I am aware, on the other hand, that the case is by no means common, in which an author is at all in... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1882 - 430 pages
...rejections — at the painful erasures and interpolations — in a word, at the wheels and pinions — the tackle for scene-shifting — the step-ladders...constitute the properties of the literary histrio. to retrace the steps by which his conclusions have been attained. In general, suggestions, having arisen... | |
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... moment, at the innumerable glimpses of idea that arrived not at the maturity of full view, at the fully matured fancies discarded in despair as unmanageable, at the cautious selections and rejections, at the painful erasures and interpolations —... 
