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... Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools - Seite 24von Edwin Mims - 1910 - 440 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Alice B. Macdonald - 1911 - 630 Seiten
...and the simple landscape features of the domain — upon the bleak walls — upon the vacant, eyelike windows — upon a few rank sedges — and upon a...lapse into everyday life — the hideous dropping of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart — an unredeemed dreariness... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1911 - 408 Seiten
...the domain, xipon the bleak • By permission of H. 8. Stone & Co. walls, upon the vacant eye-like windows, upon a few rank sedges, and upon a few white...compare to no earthly sensation more properly than i to the after-dreain of the reveller upon opium : the . bitter lapse into everyday life, the hideous... | |
| Evelyn May Albright - 1911 - 296 Seiten
...features of the domain — upon the bleak walls — upon the vacant, eye-like windows — upon a few white sedges — and upon a few white trunks of decayed...sensation more properly than to the after-dream of a reveler upon opium — the bitter lapse into every-day life — the hideous dropping off of the veil.... | |
| Abraham Royer Brubacher, Dorothy Ermina Snyder - 1912 - 400 Seiten
...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...everyday life, the hideous dropping off of the veil. ... I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre... | |
| William Franklin Webster - 1912 - 392 Seiten
...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...sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveler upon opium — the bitter lapse into every-day life — the hideous dropping off of the veil.... | |
| Walter B. Pitkin - 1913 - 292 Seiten
...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...everyday life — the hideous dropping off of the veil. . This, it must be confessed, is not an absolutely pure specimen of a direct-action opening which reveals... | |
| Carson Samuel Duncan, Edwin Long Beck, William Lucius Graves - 1913 - 408 Seiten
...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...to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dreams of the reveler upon opium ; the bitter lapse into every-day life, the hideous dropping... | |
| Henry Seidel Canby, John Baker Opdycke - 1913 - 624 Seiten
...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...to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after dream of the reveler upon opium — the bitter lapse into everyday life — the hideous dropping... | |
| Lemuel Arthur Pittenger - 1914 - 306 Seiten
...1839 and published at the end of the same year in his Tales of the Grotesque and of the Arabesque. upon a few rank sedges — and upon a few white trunks...lapse into every-day life — the hideous dropping 5 off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart — art unredeemed dreariness... | |
| 1914 - 424 Seiten
...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...sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveler upon opium — the bitter lapse into everyday life — the hideous"'' dropping off of the veil.... | |
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