The tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe, with biogr. essay by J.H. Ingram, Volume 41884 |
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... truth , it was a rare thing to see any of them so far the worse for liquor , as to be incap- able of attending to duty . They were always in a good humour , and always ready to work ; but as hunters I did not think them worth much , and ...
... truth , it was a rare thing to see any of them so far the worse for liquor , as to be incap- able of attending to duty . They were always in a good humour , and always ready to work ; but as hunters I did not think them worth much , and ...
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... truth ; although indeed , many of them had a marvellous air . Experience afterwards taught us that the dangers and difficulties of the solitary hunter can scarcely be exaggerated , and that the real task is to depict them to the hearer ...
... truth ; although indeed , many of them had a marvellous air . Experience afterwards taught us that the dangers and difficulties of the solitary hunter can scarcely be exaggerated , and that the real task is to depict them to the hearer ...
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... truth , as this truth is since ascertained . We regard this as a remark- able trait in his mind ; and it is assuredly one which should entitle his observations to the highest credit , when they concern regions about which we know ...
... truth , as this truth is since ascertained . We regard this as a remark- able trait in his mind ; and it is assuredly one which should entitle his observations to the highest credit , when they concern regions about which we know ...
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... truth of that — can't you , Nep ? ” — when the animal would roll up his eyes immediately , loll out his monstrous tongue , and wag his great head up and down , as much as to say- " Oh it's every bit as true as the Bible . " Although we ...
... truth of that — can't you , Nep ? ” — when the animal would roll up his eyes immediately , loll out his monstrous tongue , and wag his great head up and down , as much as to say- " Oh it's every bit as true as the Bible . " Although we ...
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... truth , and was entitled to much respect . The fact is , that soon after my arrival at the cottage , there had occurred to myself an incident so entirely inexplicable , and which had in it so much of the portentous character , that I ...
... truth , and was entitled to much respect . The fact is , that soon after my arrival at the cottage , there had occurred to myself an incident so entirely inexplicable , and which had in it so much of the portentous character , that I ...
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Page 223 - ONCE upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping — rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing more.
Page 232 - Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels ! In the silence of the night How we .shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan.
Page 212 - Death has left on her Only the beautiful. "Still, for all slips of hers, One of Eve's family — Wipe those poor lips of hers Oozing so clammily, "Loop up her tresses Escaped from the comb, Her fair auburn tresses; Whilst wonderment guesses Where was her home ? "Who was her father? Who was her mother? Had she a sister? Had she a brother?
Page 234 - The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere — The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year...
Page 241 - And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love, and be loved by me ! I was a child, and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee — With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
Page 231 - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 212 - Touch her not scornfully; Think of her mournfully, Gently and humanly, Not of the stains of her; All that remains of her Now is pure womanly.
Page 230 - Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells ! How it dwells On the Future...
Page 307 - ... 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. Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land! Israfel And the angel Israfel, whose heart-strings are a lute, and who has the sweetest...
Page 257 - Lo! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West, Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest. There shrines and palaces and towers (Time-eaten towers that tremble not!) Resemble nothing that is ours. Around, by lifting winds forgot, Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie.