The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With a MemoirSampson Low, 1857 |
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... Drômes . The Rue des Drômes is a short and narrow but popu- lous thoroughfare , not far from the banks of the river , and at a distance of some two miles , in the most direct course possible , from the pension of Madame Rogêt . St ...
... Drômes . The Rue des Drômes is a short and narrow but popu- lous thoroughfare , not far from the banks of the river , and at a distance of some two miles , in the most direct course possible , from the pension of Madame Rogêt . St ...
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... Drômes . From that hour , nobody is proved to have seen her . There is no trace or tidings of her at all . There has no person , whatever , come forward , so far , who saw her at all , on that day , after she left her mother's door ...
... Drômes . From that hour , nobody is proved to have seen her . There is no trace or tidings of her at all . There has no person , whatever , come forward , so far , who saw her at all , on that day , after she left her mother's door ...
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... Drômes , without being recognized by a dozen persons ; yet no one has come forward who saw her outside of her mother's door , and there is no evidence , except the testimony concerning her expressed intentions , that she did go out at ...
... Drômes , without being recognized by a dozen persons ; yet no one has come forward who saw her outside of her mother's door , and there is no evidence , except the testimony concerning her expressed intentions , that she did go out at ...
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... Drômes , and St. Eustache was requested to call for her at dark . Now , at first glance , this fact strongly militates against my suggestion ; —but let us reflect . That she did meet some companion , and proceed with him across the ...
... Drômes , and St. Eustache was requested to call for her at dark . Now , at first glance , this fact strongly militates against my suggestion ; —but let us reflect . That she did meet some companion , and proceed with him across the ...
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... Drômes , he should find that she had not been there , and when , moreover , upon returning to the pension with this alarming intelligence , he should become aware of her continued absence from home . She must have thought of these ...
... Drômes , he should find that she had not been there , and when , moreover , upon returning to the pension with this alarming intelligence , he should become aware of her continued absence from home . She must have thought of these ...
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Página 300 - 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.
Página 378 - Thou wast that all to me, love, For which my soul did pine — A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a shrine, All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers, And all the flowers were mine. Ah, dream too bright to last! Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise But to be overcast! A voice from out the Future cries, "On! on!"— but o'er the Past (Dim gulf) my spirit hovering lies Mute, motionless, aghast!
Página 291 - I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain, upon the bleak walls, upon the vacant eye-like windows, upon a few rank sedges, and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees, with an utter depression of soul...
Página 460 - 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.
Página 378 - On! on!"— but o'er the Past (Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies Mute, motionless, aghast! For, alas! alas! with me The light of Life is o'er! "No more — no more...
Página 301 - 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 ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever, And laugh —...
Página ix - TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Página 79 - Readily; I have solved others of an abstruseness ten thousand times greater. Circumstances, and a certain bias of mind, have led me to take interest in such riddles, and it may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma of the kind which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
Página 309 - ... the path a wild light, and I turned to see whence a gleam so unusual could have issued; for the vast house and its shadows were alone behind me. The radiance was that of the full, setting, and blood-red moon, which now shone vividly through that once...
Página 296 - I was at once struck with an incoherence, an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy, an excessive nervous agitation. For something of this nature I had indeed been prepared, no less by his letter than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from his peculiar physical conformation and temperament.