The Raven: with literary and historical commentaryGeorge Redway, 1885 - 122 pages |
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... thoughts , before the thinker could have fixed upon the fairest and fittest for his purpose ! Could we unveil the various phases of thought which culminated in The Sensitive Plant , or trace the gradations which grew into The Ancient ...
... thoughts , before the thinker could have fixed upon the fairest and fittest for his purpose ! Could we unveil the various phases of thought which culminated in The Sensitive Plant , or trace the gradations which grew into The Ancient ...
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... thought , " says Poe , " how interesting a magazine paper might be written by any author who would that is to say , who could — detail , step by step , the processes by which any one of his compositions attained its ultimate point of ...
... thought , " says Poe , " how interesting a magazine paper might be written by any author who would that is to say , who could — detail , step by step , the processes by which any one of his compositions attained its ultimate point of ...
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... thought- ful and original essay * -have elected to place entire reliance upon Poe's statements , as given in The Philo- sophy of Composition ; we , for reasons to be given , can * The Fortnightly Review , July 1st , 1880 . only regard ...
... thought- ful and original essay * -have elected to place entire reliance upon Poe's statements , as given in The Philo- sophy of Composition ; we , for reasons to be given , can * The Fortnightly Review , July 1st , 1880 . only regard ...
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... author of an Ode to The Mocking Bird and other pieces once well - known . In an editorial note by Willis , it was stated that Isadore had been written by its author " after sitting up late at study , —the thought Genesis . 5.
... author of an Ode to The Mocking Bird and other pieces once well - known . In an editorial note by Willis , it was stated that Isadore had been written by its author " after sitting up late at study , —the thought Genesis . 5.
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... thought of losing her who slept near him at his toil having suddenly crossed his mind in the stillness of midnight . " Here we have a statement which must have met Poe's gaze , and which establishes the first coincidence between the ...
... thought of losing her who slept near him at his toil having suddenly crossed his mind in the stillness of midnight . " Here we have a statement which must have met Poe's gaze , and which establishes the first coincidence between the ...
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Page 22 - thing of evil— prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore!
Page 18 - This it is and nothing more." Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, " Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you "—here I opened wide the door.
Page 22 - Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!' Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore.' 'Prophet!' said I, 'thing of evil! prophet still, if bird or devil! Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted On this home by Horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I implore!
Page 18 - Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door, Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door: This it is and nothing more.
Page 22 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend !" I shrieked, upstarting: "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door 1
Page 20 - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door — Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as
Page 20 - Startled at the stillness, broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master, whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster, till his songs one burden bore, — Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore, Of 'Never — nevermore...
Page 115 - To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore!
Page 17 - Only this and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Nameless here for evermore.
Page 21 - But the Raven still beguiling All my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in Front of bird and bust and door ; Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking What this ominous bird of yore — What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, Gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking