 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
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Everett Hale, Washington Irving, Francis Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain - 1917 - 616 Seiten
...THE HOUSE OF USHER Son cceur est un luth suspendu; Sitot qu'on le louche 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... | |
 | Wilhelm Viëtor - 1917 - 680 Seiten
...überwältigender konkretheit: •Dornig the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the äutnmn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low...dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, äs the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melaneholy House of Usher. I know not how... | |
 | Wilhelm Viëtor - 1917 - 684 Seiten
...überwältigender konkretheit: "During the whole of a dull, dark, and sonndless day in the aiinunn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low...singularly dreary tract of country ; and at length f ound myself, äs the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.... | |
 | Victor Oscar Freeburg - 1918 - 332 Seiten
...consummate art until they convey a single irresistible impression. His first sentence sets the key. " During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...within view of the melancholy House of Usher. ... I looked upon the scene before me . . . upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the... | |
 | Walter Morris Hart - 1918 - 262 Seiten
...scene of the story has indeed the more careful and the steadier movement of an Irving or a Poe : ' ' 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." It is because intense and persistent... | |
 | Irwin Edman - 1919 - 480 Seiten
...done in a few lines or paragraphs. Witness the famous opening of Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher' : 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 the... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1916 - 594 Seiten
...THE HOUSE OF USHER Son cceur est un luth suspendu ; Pilot qu'on le touche il resonne. Di BER ANG KB. 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... | |
 | Edward Harlan Webster - 1920 - 334 Seiten
...selection is an outgrowth of its predecessor. Point out the means of linking the sentences together. 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 the... | |
 | Charles Harvey Raymond - 1921 - 496 Seiten
...words of cheerless personality are consistently employed to give an impression of foreboding and gloom: 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... | |
 | Charles Harvey Raymond - 1921 - 496 Seiten
...words of cheerless personality are consistently employed to give an impression of foreboding and gloom: During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at lenglh found myself, as the shades of cvening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.... | |
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