"Sentiency" Quotes from Famous Books
... to the gate, Where stood Alceste in sad weary plight, Sore press'd with sentience of her hapless fate, Weeping, nigh hopeless, in the pale moonlight. Tarried he there in strange delicious strait, Lapt in the wonder of his dreaming sight; Then opening wide his arms in raptured prayer, Her gentle spirit swoon'd ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Eidolon - The Course of a Soul and Other Poems • Walter R. Cassels
... fro, like those in one of the Episodes of Vathek. In The Fall of the House of Usher he adapts the theme which he had approached in the sketch entitled Premature Burial, and unites with it a subtler conception, the sentience of the vegetable world. Like the guest of Roderick Usher, as we enter the house we fall immediately beneath the overmastering sway of its irredeemable, insufferable gloom. The melancholy building, Usher's wild musical ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Tale of Terror • Edith Birkhead |