There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.
Horror, detective fiction
General descriptive quote
Undated (common attribution)
Found in 1 providers: gemini
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"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."
Strange & Unusual"No spectacle can be more pitiable than that of a man without the commonest school education busying himself in attempts to instruct mankind on topics of polite literature."
Humorous"I have often thought that the sole regret of the transformed butterfly must be that it can only live for a day."
Strange & Unusual"Doctor Dubble L. Dee"
Humorous"Of course, that he is a poetical phenomenon, as entirely without fault, as is the luxurious paper upon which his poems are invariably borne to the public eye."
Strange & Unusual