• There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime

    Edgar Allan Poe: There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime
    1839 'The Fall of the House of Usher', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Sep.