 | 1899 - 978 pages
...wrought out, . . . combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. ... In the whole composition there should be no word written...indirect, is- not to the one pre-established design." Poe was now the editor of " Graham's Magazine," which had made a notable success within a very short... | |
 | Education - 1920 - 706 pages
...incidents, he then combines such events, as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. ... In the whole composition there should be no word written,...direct or indirect, is not to the one pre-established design."1 The desired impression was always unusual, imaginative, uncanny, or horrible. His tales,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...preconceived effect If his very initial sentence tend not to the ontbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition...the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one preestablishcd design. And by such means, with such care and skill, a picture is at length painted... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence tends not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition...direct or indirect, is not to the one preestablished desfgn. And by such means, with such care and skill, a picture is at length painted which leaves in... | |
 | Lewis Edwards Gates - Criticism - 1900 - 266 pages
...preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition...indirect, is not to the one preestablished design." All these prescriptions, which, according to Poe, should govern the short tale, will be found duly... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Publishers' bindings - 1901 - 410 pages
...wrought out . . . combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. ... In the whole composition there should be no word written,...indirect, is not to the one preestablished design." Poe was now the editor of Graham's Magazine, which had made a notable success within a very short time,... | |
 | Brander Matthews - Short stories - 1901 - 92 pages
...initial sentence tend not to the out-bringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step.1 In the whole composition there should be no word written...indirect, is not to the one pre-established design. As by such means, with such care and skill, a picture is at length painted which leaves in the mind... | |
 | 1906 - 740 pages
...preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition...indirect, is not to the one pre-established design." So rigidly did he work that in his best short stories we feel that the removal of a sentence would... | |
 | Brander Matthews - American essays - 1902 - 296 pages
...preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition...indirect, is not to the one preestablished design. As by such means, with such care and skill, a picture is at length painted which leaves in the mind... | |
 | Bliss Perry - Fiction - 1902 - 432 pages
...preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition...the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one preestablisked design. And by such means, with such care and skill, a picture is at length painted... | |
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In the whole composition there should be no word written of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one preestablished design. 
