Selections from the Prose Tales of Edgar Allan PoeMacmillan, 1901 - 343 Seiten |
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Amontillado appeared beauty beetle bosom censer chamber Chantilly character Chiromancy Cimabue countenance death death's-head descent door doubt dream Dupin EDGAR ALLAN POE endeavored excitement eyes fancy feel feet fell felt Fortunato Frenchman genius ghastly glance gold GOLD-BUG grew H. S. Stone hand Haunted Palace head heard heart horror hour House of Usher idea imagination impression instant JOSEPH GLANVILL Jupiter lady Legrand length Ligeia light limb looked Madame L'Espanaye MAELSTRÖM manner massa matter means ment mind minutes murder mystery nature never night observed once Ourang-Outang parchment passion pause peculiar perceive perhaps permission of H. S. person Poe's poems portion rock scarabæus scarcely seemed singular skull soul sound spirit stereotomy Stone & Co stood story struggled Sullivan's Island suppose surcingle terror things thought tion took tree utter verse voice wall whirl whole wild window words
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Seite 47 - Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.
Seite 2 - 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 which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium, the bitter lapse into everyday life, the hideous dropping of the veil.
Seite 17 - 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!
Seite 5 - ... possible influence which the one, in the long lapse of centuries, might have exercised upon the other — it was this deficiency perhaps of collateral issue, and the consequent undeviating transmission from sire to son of the patrimony with the name, which had at length so identified the two as to merge the original title of the estate in the quaint and equivocal appellation of the
Seite 34 - The radiance was that of the full, setting, and bloodred moon, which now shone vividly through that once barely-discernible fissure, of which I have before spoken as extending from the roof of the building in a zigzag direction to the base. While I gazed, this fissure rapidly widened ; there came a fierce breath of the whirlwind ; the entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sight ; my brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder; there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like...
Seite 2 - ... -I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down — but with a shudder even more thrilling than before — upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows.
Seite 7 - I rode over a short causeway to the house. A servant in waiting took my horse, and I entered the Gothic archway of the hall. A valet of stealthy step thence conducted me in silence through many dark and intricate passages in my progress to the studio of his master.
Seite 4 - I was aware, however, that his very ancient family had been noted, time out of mind, for a peculiar sensibility of temperament, displaying itself, through long ages, in many works of exalted art, and manifested, of late, in repeated deeds of munificent yet unobtrusive charity, as well as in a passionate devotion to the intricacies, perhaps even more than to the orthodox and easily recognizable beauties, of musical science.
Seite 11 - ... nervous affection, he immediately added, which would undoubtedly soon pass off. It displayed itself in a host of unnatural sensations. Some of these, as he detailed them, interested and bewildered me ; although, perhaps, the terms and the general manner of the narration had their weight. He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses ; the most insipid food was alone endurable ; he could wear only garments of certain texture ; the...
Seite 103 - Thou wilt not wake, Till I thy fate shall overtake: Till age, or grief, or sickness must Marry my body to that dust It so much loves; and fill the room My heart keeps empty in thy tomb. Stay for me there; I will not fail To meet thee in that hollow vale.