The tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe, with biogr. essay by J.H. Ingram, المجلد 11884 |
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... directions . He said nothing , however , and his conduct greatly astonished me ; yet I thought it prudent not to exacerbate the growing moodiness of his temper by any comment . Presently he took from his coat pocket a wallet , placed ...
... directions . He said nothing , however , and his conduct greatly astonished me ; yet I thought it prudent not to exacerbate the growing moodiness of his temper by any comment . Presently he took from his coat pocket a wallet , placed ...
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... direction , through a tract of country exces- sively wild and desolate , where no trace of a human footstep was to be seen . Legrand led the way with decision ; pausing only for an instant , here and there , to consult what appeared to ...
... direction , through a tract of country exces- sively wild and desolate , where no trace of a human footstep was to be seen . Legrand led the way with decision ; pausing only for an instant , here and there , to consult what appeared to ...
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... direction already established by the two points of the tree and the peg , for the distance of fifty feet - Jupiter clearing away the brambles with the scythe . At the spot thus attained a second peg was driven , and about this , as a ...
... direction already established by the two points of the tree and the peg , for the distance of fifty feet - Jupiter clearing away the brambles with the scythe . At the spot thus attained a second peg was driven , and about this , as a ...
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... direction , when , with a loud oath , Legrand strode up to Jupiter , and seized him by the collar . The astonished negro opened his eyes and mouth to the fullest extent , let fall the spades , and fell upon his knees . " You scoundrel ...
... direction , when , with a loud oath , Legrand strode up to Jupiter , and seized him by the collar . The astonished negro opened his eyes and mouth to the fullest extent , let fall the spades , and fell upon his knees . " You scoundrel ...
الصفحة 45
... directions for the levelling of the glass . Greatly excited by these dis- coveries , I hurried home , procured a ... direction I at once established by means of a pocket - compass ; then , pointing the glass as nearly at an angle of ...
... directions for the levelling of the glass . Greatly excited by these dis- coveries , I hurried home , procured a ... direction I at once established by means of a pocket - compass ; then , pointing the glass as nearly at an angle of ...
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amid Amontillado appeared arose astonishment beauty became Berenice Berlifitzing bosom breath censer chamber character countenance dark death doubt dream EDGAR ALLAN POE Edgar Poe endeavoured excited eyes fancy feel feet fell felt gazed ghastly GOLD-BUG Graham's Magazine grew hand head heard heart hideous horror hour idea imagination instant JOSEPH GLANVILL Jupiter KING WILLIAM STREET knew lady Legrand length Ligeia light limb lips looked luminiferous ether Maelström manner massa means Metzengerstein mind minutes Morella nature nearly never night oblong box observed once palace parchment passed passion peculiar perceive perhaps person Poe's scarabæus scarcely seemed shadow ship shriek shudder singular skull smile soul sound spirit spoke stood strange struggled suddenly Sullivan's Island surcingle Tarpaulin terror things thought tion took tree unparticled matter utterly Valdemar voice walls whole wife wild wind words Wyatt
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الصفحة 121 - And all with pearl and ruby glowing Was the fair palace door, Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing, And sparkling evermore, A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty Was but to sing, In voices of surpassing beauty, The wit and wisdom of their king.
الصفحة 121 - But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him, desolate!) And, round about his home, the glory That blushed and bloomed Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed. And travellers, now within that valley. Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms that move fantastically To a discordant melody ; While, like a rapid ghastly river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever, And laugh — but...
الصفحة 76 - For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.
الصفحة 120 - Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago) And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odor went away.
الصفحة 120 - IN THE greenest of our valleys, By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace — Radiant palace — reared its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion — It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair.
الصفحة 76 - Divine Father! — shall these things be undeviatingly so? — shall this Conqueror be not once conquered? Are we not part and parcel in Thee? Who — who knoweth the mysteries of the will with its vigor? Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.
الصفحة 159 - And yet all this might have been endured, if not approved, by the mad revellers around. But the mummer had gone so far as to assume the type of the Red Death. His vesture was dabbled in blood — and his broad brow, with all the features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror.
الصفحة 48 - The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn, not the material of my every-day existence, but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.
الصفحة 69 - Democritus — which lay far within the pupils of my beloved ? What was it ? I was possessed with a passion to discover. Those eyes! those large, those shining, those divine orbs! they became to me twin stars of Leda, and I to them devoutest of astrologers.
الصفحة 124 - ... we two alone bore it to its rest. The vault in which we placed it (and which had been so long unopened that our torches, half smothered in its oppressive atmosphere, gave us little opportunity for investigation) was small, damp, and entirely without means of admission for light, lying at VOL. I. I great depth immediately beneath that portion of the building in which was my own sleeping apartment.