DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the... Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools - Seite 23von Edwin Mims - 1910 - 440 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 Seiten
...flood-tide." (From " The Relief of Lucknow," by Robert TS Lowell.) LXXXIII.— THE HOUSE OF USHER. 1. During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...on, within view of the melancholy house of Usher. 2. I know not how it was, but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom... | |
| 1920 - 706 Seiten
...puts us in the mood for the story, providing an atmosphere that lends its coloring to every detail: "During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher." Here is the keynote of the story, arid... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1884 - 454 Seiten
...HOUSE OF USHER. Son cceur est un luth suspendu ; Sit6t qu'on le touche il resonne. — DE BERANGER. DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1885 - 304 Seiten
...HOUSE OF USHER. " Son cieur est un luth suspendu ; Hitot qu'on le touche il resonne." — DE B£R\NGER. DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...country ; and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 Seiten
...1850.] Son coeur est un luth suspcndu ; Sitot qu'on le touche il resonne. — De Beranger. r"\URING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn -I-/ of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 Seiten
...Works. 1850.] Son coDur est un luth suspendu ; Sitot qu'on le touche il resonne.—De Stranger. TOURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn -I—/ of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone,... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1889 - 360 Seiten
...HOUSE OF USHER. " Son coenr est un luth suspendu ; Sitflt qu'on le touche il resonne." — DE BEBANGEB. DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1898 - 228 Seiten
...THE HOUSE OF USHER1 Son CCKUP eat uii lut.li suspeudu ; Situt qu'on le touche 11 re'sonne. Stranger? DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback,3 through a singularly dreary tract of country ; and at length found myself, as the shades... | |
| Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 460 Seiten
...bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells, — To the moaning and the groaning of the bells. BY EDGAR A. FOE. DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with... | |
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