The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, Volumul 4Redfield, 1856 |
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... this ruse was received has induced me at length to undertake a regular compilation and publication of the adventures in question ; for I found that , in spite of the air of fable which had been so ingeniously thrown around that X PREFACE .
... this ruse was received has induced me at length to undertake a regular compilation and publication of the adventures in question ; for I found that , in spite of the air of fable which had been so ingeniously thrown around that X PREFACE .
Pagina 24
... question , I should then , he said , be formally installed in all the comforts of the cabin ; and as to his father , he would only laugh heartily at the joke . Vessels enough would be met with by which a letter might be sent home ...
... question , I should then , he said , be formally installed in all the comforts of the cabin ; and as to his father , he would only laugh heartily at the joke . Vessels enough would be met with by which a letter might be sent home ...
Pagina 39
... question beyond a doubt , as the phosphorus remaining would be altogether insufficient for a third attempt , should I fail in the one I was now about to make . I placed the paper on a book as before , and sat for some minutes ...
... question beyond a doubt , as the phosphorus remaining would be altogether insufficient for a third attempt , should I fail in the one I was now about to make . I placed the paper on a book as before , and sat for some minutes ...
Pagina 59
... question . He now seemed to be perfectly quiet , and we could not even distinguish the sound of his breathing upon applying our ears closely to the box . I was convinced that he was dead , and determined to open the door . We found him ...
... question . He now seemed to be perfectly quiet , and we could not even distinguish the sound of his breathing upon applying our ears closely to the box . I was convinced that he was dead , and determined to open the door . We found him ...
Pagina 63
... questions with perfect freedom ; told him that he had no doubt of his father's having been picked up , as there were no less than five sail in sight just before sundown on the day he was cut adrift ; and used other language of a ...
... questions with perfect freedom ; told him that he had no doubt of his father's having been picked up , as there were no less than five sail in sight just before sundown on the day he was cut adrift ; and used other language of a ...
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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...