...digne de Thyeste.' 1 They are to be found in Crebillon's ' Atree.' " / THE TELL-TALE HEAKT.2 TRUE! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am ; but why will you say that I nm mad ? The disease had sharpened my senses — not misshapen, huge, deprived of sight.) It is a hexameter...

...but why will you say that I am mad ? The disease had sharpened my senses — not destroyed — nor dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute....earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad ? Hearken ! and observe how healthily — how calmly, I can tell you the whole story. Similarly swift...

...what has already happened, and the tone of what is to follow, without a moment's delay : True ! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been...disease had sharpened my senses — not destroyed — nor dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and...

...what has already happened, and the tone of what is to follow, without a moment's delay : True ! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been...disease had sharpened my senses — not destroyed — nor dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and...

...its enemies. THE TELL-TALE HEART. (The Pioneer, January, 1843 ; Broad-way Journal, II. 7.) TRUE ! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am ; but why toil! you say that I am mad ? The disease had sharpened my senses — not destroyed — not dulled...

...There is an hysterical laugh which will for ever ring within my ears. THE TELL-TALE HEART TRUH ! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been...earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad ? Hearken ! and observe how hc;tl thily — how calmly I can tell you the whole story. It is impossible...

...ihou hast murdered thyself." THE TELL-TALE HEART 'T'RUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous 1 I had been and am! but why will you say that I am mad ? The disease had sharpened my senses— not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven...

...achievement, have no introduction, nor have more than two or three of the typical tales that follow. "True! nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous, I had been...earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad ? Hearken ! and observe how healthily — how calmly I can tell you the whole Story." The Tell- Tale...

...achievement, have no introduction, nor have more than two or three of the typical tales that follow. " True ! nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous, I had been...earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad ? Hearken ! and observe how healthily — how calmly I can tell you the whole story." The Tell-Tale...

...suggests the one essential fact of the tale — the narrator gone mad through conscience : — "True! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing...