 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1896 - 508 sider
...portrayals of action and his descriptions of wild nature. He had the art of stimulating expectation ; — it is hard to lay down one of his romances unfinished...in a sort of ghastly dream until at length the end of the book completes the hideous nightmare. SUGGESTED READING. — Prescott's essay on Charles Brockden... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1896 - 496 sider
...portrayals of action and his descriptions of wild nature. He had the art of stimulating expectation; — it is hard to lay down one of his romances unfinished;...in a sort of ghastly dream until at length the end of the book completes the hideous nightmare. SUGGESTED READING. — Prescott's essay on Charles Brockden... | |
 | Martin Samuel Vilas - 1904 - 78 sider
...endeavored to drop the extravagance of his first work, we may see in the religious experiences of Colden in "Jane Talbot," an effort to typify himself, but...in a sort of ghastly dream until at length the end of the book completes the hideous nightmare." Some men are great in themselves, others great in the... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 sider
...portrayals of action and his descriptions of wild nature. He had the art of stimulating expectations ; — people from his Majesty, to withdraw them from their...of the realm, and to excite them to traitorous insu of the book completes the hideous nightmare. — PATTEE, FRED LEWIS, 1896, A History of American Literature,... | |
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Poe," as some have called him, so vastly inferior is his art to his who produced the " Fall of the House of Usher." Brown's excellences are his graphic portrayals of action and his descriptions of wild nature. He had the art of stimulating expectation... 