 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 634 páginas
...the prevailing colour of the dreams indulged by the child-artist, take these stage -directions : ' Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens...abide their destiny, suggestive and impenetrable.' We smile as the words meet our gaze, yet a slight inward sensation warns us that they are uncanny enough... | |
 | 1883 - 708 páginas
...invent appropriate games for them, as I still try, just as vainly, to fit them with the proper story. Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens...though it is known already as the place where Keats finished his ' Endymion ' and Nelson parted ;from his Emma — still seems to wait the coming of the... | |
 | 1883 - 736 páginas
...invent appropriate games for them, as I still try, just as vainly, to fit them with the proper story. Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens...with its arbours and green garden and silent, eddying river—though it is known already as the place where Keats finished his ' Endymion' and Nelson parted... | |
 | 1901 - 862 páginas
...events and places," says Robert Louis Stevenson. "Certain dank gardens cry aloud for murder, certain houses demand to be haunted, certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck." This fitness of event and place Egerton Castle declares to be the very soul of romance. In the introduction... | |
 | Agnes Repplier - 1892 - 238 páginas
...harmony that unites an evil deed to its location. "Some places," he says, "speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses...abide their destiny, suggestive and impenetrable." And is all this fine and delicate sentiment, all this skillful playing with horror and fear, to be... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 634 páginas
...determine the prevailing colour of the dreams indulged bv the child-artist, take these stage-directions : ' Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens...abide their destiny, suggestive and impenetrable.' We smile as the words meet our gaze, yet a slight inward sensation warns us that they are are uncanny... | |
 | Agnes Repplier - 1895 - 252 páginas
...sensitiveness to surroundings which is a proper attribute both of the poet and the ghost-seer. " Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses...haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck," says Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson; and Burns condenses the same thought into that incomparable line,... | |
 | Agnes Repplier - 1896 - 242 páginas
...surroundings which is a proper attribute both of the poet and the ghost-seer. " Certain dark gardens cryaloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted ; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck," says Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson; and Burns condenses the same thought into that incomparable line,... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1899 - 216 páginas
...places . . . Something, we feel, should happen; we know not what, yet we proceed in quest of it ... Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens...haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck. 1 And we have M. Marcel Schwob ingeniously commenting thus:— Comme le fondeur de cire perdue coule... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1899 - 232 páginas
...places . . . Something, we feel, should happen ; we know not what, yet we proceed in quest of it ... Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens...demand to be haunted ; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.1 And we have M. Marcel Schwob ingeniously commenting thus : — Comme le fondeur de cire... | |
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Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted ; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck. 
