 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...  The Dramatic Works of John Webster - Page 246by John Webster - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Geography - 1867 - 878 pages
...tho 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...drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to tako its last forfeit — this only a Webster can do. Writers of an inferior genius may ' upon horror's... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1808 - 512 pages
...the 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...accumulate" but they cannot do this. They mistake quantity for quality, they " terrify babes with painted devils" but they know not how a soul is capable... | |
 | Arthur Aikin - 1809 - 832 pages
...quick, to lay upon fear as much a« it can bear, to wean ami weary л life till il is ready to drop ar.d then step in with mortal instruments to take its last...an inferior genius may ' upon horror's head horrors accuniulatc-,' but they cannot do thi«: They mistake quantity for quahly, they ' terrify babes with... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1813 - 502 pages
...the 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...accumulate" but they cannot do this. They mistake quantity for quality, they " terrify babes with painted devils" but they know not how a soul is capable... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 pages
...Tartarus 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...take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate," but they cannot do this. They mistake... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1904 - 738 pages
...Sonnenschein k 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...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 pages
...the 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...accumulate,' but they cannot do this. They mistake quantity for quality, they 'terrify babes with painted devils,' but they know not how a soul is capable... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - English drama - 1830 - 384 pages
...the 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...accumulate,' but they cannot do this. They mistake quantity for quality, they 'terrify babes with painted devils,' but they know not how a soul is capable... | |
 | 1832 - 368 pages
...Ьоггог skilfully, tó touch a sore to the quick, to lay upon fear аз much as it can bear, to wear and weary : a life till it is ready to drop, and then to step in with mortal instrument to take . it* last forfeit: this ¡only a Webster. can do, ' Writers... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 376 pages
...Tartarus 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...take its last forfeit: this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate," but they cannot do this. They mistake... | |
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