The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: The literatiRedfield, 1850 |
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... never was a quack who could be brought to comprehend the value of mere fame . Now , men of genius will not resort to these manoeuvres , because genius involves in its very essence a scorn of chicanery ; and thus for a time the quacks ...
... never was a quack who could be brought to comprehend the value of mere fame . Now , men of genius will not resort to these manoeuvres , because genius involves in its very essence a scorn of chicanery ; and thus for a time the quacks ...
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... never heard gainsaid by any one literary person in the country . That this opinion , however , is a spoken and not a written one , is referable to the facts , first , that Mr. Hawthorne is a poor man , and , second , that he is not an ...
... never heard gainsaid by any one literary person in the country . That this opinion , however , is a spoken and not a written one , is referable to the facts , first , that Mr. Hawthorne is a poor man , and , second , that he is not an ...
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... never been attained by any of our five dollar magazines , with the exception of " The Southern Literary Messenger , " which , in the course of nineteen months , ( subsequent to the seventh from its commencement , ) attained a ...
... never been attained by any of our five dollar magazines , with the exception of " The Southern Literary Messenger , " which , in the course of nineteen months , ( subsequent to the seventh from its commencement , ) attained a ...
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... of obviousness which is superinduced . We are apt to find ourselves asking why it is that these combinations have never been imagined before ? In tales ( written with deliberation for the magazines ) 30 N. P. WILLIS .
... of obviousness which is superinduced . We are apt to find ourselves asking why it is that these combinations have never been imagined before ? In tales ( written with deliberation for the magazines ) 30 N. P. WILLIS .
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... never very exceptionable , and never very pro- found . Mr. Gillespie is not unaccomplished , converses readily on many topics , has some knowledge of Italian , French , and , I believe , of the classical tongues , with such proficiency ...
... never very exceptionable , and never very pro- found . Mr. Gillespie is not unaccomplished , converses readily on many topics , has some knowledge of Italian , French , and , I believe , of the classical tongues , with such proficiency ...
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Página 308 - And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe; For all averred I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow!
Página 59 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Página 174 - 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! Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago...
Página 329 - So live, that when thy summons comes, to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 185 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Página 323 - FULL knee-deep lies the winter snow, And the winter winds are wearily sighing : Toll ye the church-bell sad and slow, And tread softly and speak low, For the old year lies a-dying. Old year, you must not die ; You came to us so readily, You lived with us so steadily, Old year, you shall not die.
Página 293 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours.
Página 197 - In the whole composition there should be no word written of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one preestablished design.
Página 252 - He acts upon the principle that if a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well: — and the thing that he "does" especially well is the public.
Página 210 - And star-dials pointed to morn, As the star-dials hinted of morn, At the end of our path a liquescent And nebulous lustre was born, Out of which a miraculous crescent Arose with a duplicate horn, Astarte's bediamonded crescent Distinct with its duplicate horn.