 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1879 - 336 pages
...bust above his chamber door, With such name as " Nevermore." But the Raven, sitting lonely on that placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul...melancholy burden bore Of ' Never, — nevermore.' " But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in... | |
 | David Charles Bell - Elocution - 1879 - 556 pages
...On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." Then the bird said, " Never more ! " Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly...melancholy burden bore, Of "Never — nevermore." But the Baven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in... | |
 | Allen Ayrault Griffith - Elocution - 1879 - 348 pages
...his chamber door — Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door — With such a name as " Nevermore." But the Raven, sitting lonely...songs one burden bore — Till the dirges of his hope the melancholy burden bore Of ' Nevermore ' — ' Nevermore.' " But the Raven still beguiling all my... | |
 | mrs. William Thomas Greenup - 1880 - 328 pages
...bust above his chamber door, With such name as ' Nevermore.' But the raven, sitting lonely on that placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul...that melancholy burden bore Of Never — nevermore.' But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore ! ' Quoth the Raven " Nevermore." I1. Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly...that melancholy burden bore Of 'never — nevermore.' " 642 POE. iv 13. This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet... | |
 | John Howard Raymond - 1881 - 1296 pages
...Instead of the whole stanza commencing " Wondering at the stillness broken" &c substituting this : Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly...songs one burden bore — Till the dirges of his Hope the melancholy burden bore, ' Nevermore — oh, Nevermore !' " At the close of the stanza preceding... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American literature - 1881 - 1078 pages
...placid bust, spoke only That o.ie word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. Nothing farther then he uttered — not a feather then he fluttered...that melancholy burden bore Of * Never — nevermore/ " But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul 'into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat... | |
 | George Walter Baynham - Elocution - 1881 - 152 pages
...placid bust, spoke only that one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. Nothing farther then he uttered ; not a feather then he fluttered...melancholy burden bore of ' Never — nevermore.' " But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in... | |
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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. 
