 Colthurst revelled in incongruities. There was unquestionably a sinister vein in him, a rather morbid enjoyment of all that is strange, jarring, unexpected, abnormal. Some persons, indeed, have gone so far as to accuse him of a love of actual physical...  The Wages of Sin: A Novel - Стр. 49авторы: Lucas Malet - 1891 - Страниц: 595Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1891 - Страниц: 1118
...specially a nature that^ould ill afford to dispense with the motives and safeguards of Christianity. " He revelled in incongruities. There was unquestionably...a rather morbid enjoyment of all that is strange, jan ing, unexpected, abnormal." " His view of beauty was an original one," of wbich more anon. " Yet... | |
 | William Leonard Courtney - 1904 - Страниц: 324
...description in " The Wages of Sin " of James Colthurst, the painter and artist, who is the hero — " Colthurst revelled in incongruities. There was unquestionably...deformity^ and a relish of horror for mere horror's sake. No doubt his power of appreciation was widely catholic, his view of beauty an original one. Yet he... | |
 | William Leonard Courtney - 1904 - Страниц: 320
...description in " The Wages of Sin " of James Colthurst, the painter and artist, who is the hero — " Colthurst revelled in incongruities. There was unquestionably...far as to accuse him of a love of actual physical deformityi and a relish of horror for mere horror's sake. No doubt his power of appreciation was widely... | |
 | 1902 - Страниц: 868
...her own proper person; but this description of the hero is, to say the least of it, significant:— Colthurst revelled in incongruities. There was unquestionably...deformity and a relish of horror for mere horror's sake. No doubt his power of appreciation was widely catholic, his view of beauty an original one. Yet he... | |
| |
