The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With a MemoirSampson Low, 1857 |
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... body , the verse , to be entombed , without hope of resurrection , in a mass of them . Cowley is generally instanced as a wonder of precocity . But his early insipidities show only a capacity for rhyming and for the metrical arrangement ...
... body , the verse , to be entombed , without hope of resurrection , in a mass of them . Cowley is generally instanced as a wonder of precocity . But his early insipidities show only a capacity for rhyming and for the metrical arrangement ...
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... body through some of the neighbor- ing fields and twice during Sunday , when we were paraded in the same formal manner to the morning and evening service in the one church of the village . Of this church the principal of our school was ...
... body through some of the neighbor- ing fields and twice during Sunday , when we were paraded in the same formal manner to the morning and evening service in the one church of the village . Of this church the principal of our school was ...
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... body , save the fancy in his head , prevented him from doing well in the world , The evils and sufferings that poverty brought upon him , soured his nature , and deprived him of faith in human beings . This was evident to the eye - he ...
... body , save the fancy in his head , prevented him from doing well in the world , The evils and sufferings that poverty brought upon him , soured his nature , and deprived him of faith in human beings . This was evident to the eye - he ...
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... body of the little man was more than proportion- ally broad , giving to his entire figure a rotundity highly absurd . His feet , of course , could not be seen at all . His hands were enormously large . His hair was gray , and collected ...
... body of the little man was more than proportion- ally broad , giving to his entire figure a rotundity highly absurd . His feet , of course , could not be seen at all . His hands were enormously large . His hair was gray , and collected ...
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... body - a mere make - weight - good for nothing but building castles in the air - and was rather glad to get rid of me . It was a dark night when I bade her good bye , and taking with me , as aides - de - camp , the three creditors who ...
... body - a mere make - weight - good for nothing but building castles in the air - and was rather glad to get rid of me . It was a dark night when I bade her good bye , and taking with me , as aides - de - camp , the three creditors who ...
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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.