 I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.  Works - Stran 348avtor: Edgar Allan Poe - 1876Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1975 - 1042 strani
...At length I would he avenged ; this was a point definitively settled — but the very definitiveness & he understood, that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunate cause to douht my good-will. I continued,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 2004 - 450 strani
...length would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled — but th >gth I very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of...understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunate cause to doubt my good will. I continued as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1984 - 1440 strani
...At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled — but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of...that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1976 - 676 strani
...threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled — but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk....only punish but punish with impunity.- A wrong is unrcdressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1993 - 320 strani
...threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely setded - but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of...that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my goodwill. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive... | |
 | Kenneth Silverman - 1993 - 152 strani
...start, murder is most successful if the victim is made painfully aware of what is happening: "A wrong is unredressed . . . when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong."17 By focusing on the process of vanity falling prey to sly revenge, Poe 103 shifts attention... | |
 | Tom Cohen - 1994 - 292 strani
...At length I would be avenged ; this was a point definitively settled — but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk....A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes the redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him... | |
 | Dieter Meindl - 1996 - 262 strani
...the two rules that, at the beginning of his account, he sets down for successful revenge: A wrong is "unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong" (1256). Without a wrong, however, there cannot be an announcement of completed revenge to the wrongdoer—which... | |
 | Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 strani
...At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled — but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk....himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong." What's the crime? What's the difference? In a Poe story, it's the madness that matters. And along with... | |
 | Arthur H. Feiner - 2000 - 190 strani
...threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled - but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk....himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. (Poe 1927, p.205) Wounding as a primer for vengefulness has been trenchantly captured by many writers... | |
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