 in a word, at the wheels and pinions, the tackle for scene-shifting, the step-ladders and demon-traps, the cock's feathers, the red paint and black patches, which in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred constitute the properties of the literary histrio.  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 4351926Full view - About this book
 | 1875 - 842 pages
...and rejections—at the painful erasures and interpolations,—in a word, at the wheels and pinion?, the tackle for scene-shifting, the step-ladders, and...demon-traps, the cock's feathers, the red paint and the black patches, which, in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred, constitute the properties of the... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...unmanageable, at the cautious selections and rejections, at the painful erasures and interpolations,— in a word, at the wheels and pinions, the tackle for...demontraps, the cock's feathers, the red paint and the black patches, which, in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred, constitute the properties of the... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 624 pages
...unmanageable, at the cautious selections and rejections, at the painful erasures and interpolations, — in a word, at the wheels and pinions, the tackle for...demontraps, the cock's feathers, the red paint and the black patches, which, in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred, constitute the properties of the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Clarence Stedman, George Edward Woodberry - American literature - 1895 - 376 pages
...unmanageable, at the cautious selections and rejections, at the painful erasures and interpolations — in a word, at the wheels and pinions, the tackle for...demon-traps, the cock's feathers, the red paint and the black patches, which in ninetynine cases out of the hundred constitute the properties ; of the... | |
 | John Sartain - Biography & Autobiography - 1899 - 372 pages
...at the wheels and pinions —the tackle for scene-shifting—the step-ladders and demon-traps—the cock's feathers, the red paint and black patches, which in ninety-nine cases out of ahundred,constitute the properties of the literary histrio." He then goes on to describe even to the... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - English literature - 1907 - 420 pages
...unmanageable — at the cautious selections and rejections — at the painful erasures and interpolations — in a word, at the wheels and pinions — the tackle...demon-traps — the cock's feathers, the red paint and the black patches, which, in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred, constitute the properties of the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1908 - 316 pages
...unmanageable; at the cautious selections and rejections; at the painful erasures and interpolations,— in a word, at the wheels and pinions, the tackle for...demon-traps, the cock's feathers, the red paint and the black patches which, in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred, constitute the properties of the... | |
 | Joseph Berg Esenwein - Authorship - 1909 - 478 pages
...unmanageable — at the cautious selections and rejections — at the painful erasures and interpolations — in a word, at the wheels and pinions, the tackle for...demon-traps, the cock's feathers, the red paint and the black patches, which in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred constitute the properties of the literary... | |
 | Frederic Taber Cooper - Authorship - 1911 - 296 pages
...at the painful erasures and interpolations — in a word, at the wheels and pinions, the tackle of scene-shifting, the step-ladders and demon-traps, the cock's feathers, the red paint and the black patches, which in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred constitute the properties of the literary... | |
 | Literature - 1911 - 850 pages
...rejection, at the painfull erasures and interpolations—in a word, at the wheels and pinions, the tackle of sceneshifting, the step-ladders and demon-traps, the cock's feathers, the red paint and the black patches, which in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred constitute the properties of the literary... | |
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