The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, Volumul 4Redfield, 1856 |
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... least perceptible impediment to her progress . Not a scream arose from the deck of the victim - there was a slight grating sound to be heard mingling with the roar of wind and water , as the frail bark which was swallowed up rubbed for ...
... least perceptible impediment to her progress . Not a scream arose from the deck of the victim - there was a slight grating sound to be heard mingling with the roar of wind and water , as the frail bark which was swallowed up rubbed for ...
Pagina 30
... least a little fresh air through the opening , and a further supply of water from his stateroom . While occupied with this thought , however , I fell , in spite of every exertion to the contrary , into a state of profound sleep , or ...
... least a little fresh air through the opening , and a further supply of water from his stateroom . While occupied with this thought , however , I fell , in spite of every exertion to the contrary , into a state of profound sleep , or ...
Pagina 31
... least , I was in possession of my senses . The paws of some huge and real monster were pressing heavily upon my bosom - his hot breath was in my ear - and his white and ghastly fangs were gleaming upon me through the gloom . Had a ...
... least , I was in possession of my senses . The paws of some huge and real monster were pressing heavily upon my bosom - his hot breath was in my ear - and his white and ghastly fangs were gleaming upon me through the gloom . Had a ...
Pagina 34
... least blunder on my part might be the means of bringing down upon my head ; or , if this accident did not occur , the path might be effectually blocked up against my return by the descending mass , as it was in front by the obstacle ...
... least blunder on my part might be the means of bringing down upon my head ; or , if this accident did not occur , the path might be effectually blocked up against my return by the descending mass , as it was in front by the obstacle ...
Pagina 38
... least difficulty , I am sure , in reading it . Not a syllable was there , however - nothing but a dreary and unsatisfactory blank ; the illumination died away in a few seconds , and my heart died away within me as it went . I have ...
... least difficulty , I am sure , in reading it . Not a syllable was there , however - nothing but a dreary and unsatisfactory blank ; the illumination died away in a few seconds , and my heart died away within me as it went . I have ...
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Pagina 395 - Trifles, like straws, upon the surface flow, He who would search for pearls must dive below," are lines which have done much mischief.
Pagina 381 - They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, And all her princes shall be nothing. And thorns shall come up in her palaces, Nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: And it shall be an habitation of dragons, And a court for owls.
Pagina 398 - Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry ; music, without the idea, is simply music ; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
Pagina 319 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Pagina 320 - Look, where he comes ! Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Pagina 395 - ... which it would be difficult to conceal since their writings are professedly to be understood by the few, and it is the many who stand in need of salvation. In such case I should no doubt be tempted to think of the devil in Melmoth...
Pagina 426 - By opening this intercourse between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and forming regular establishments through the interior, and at both extremes, as well as along the coasts and islands, the entire command of the fur trade of North America might be obtained, from latitude 48.
Pagina 185 - And now we rushed into the embraces of the cataract, where a chasm threw itself open to receive us. But there arose in our pathway a shrouded human figure, very far larger in its proportions than any dweller among men. And the hue of the skin of the figure was of the perfect whiteness of the snow.
Pagina 336 - The garden like a lady fair was cut, That lay as if she slumbered in delight, And to the open skies her eyes did shut. The azure fields of Heaven were 'sembled right In a large round set with the flowers of light. The flowers de luce and the round sparks of dew That hung upon their azure leaves did shew Like twinkling stars that sparkle in the evening blue.
Pagina 417 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of. these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead and slept with princes and counsellors might admit a wide solution. But who were the proprietaries of these bones, or what bodies these ashes made up, were a question above...