 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...  The American Whig Review - Seite 2881850Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Blanche Colton Williams - 1917 - 380 Seiten
...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...on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher." Observe, first, how the key is changed by a beginning which in meaning and intent shows an antithesis... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas - 1917 - 388 Seiten
...the melancholy House of Usher, there are unmistakable hints of these strange forebodings : — I knew not how it was, but, with the first glimpse of the...a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. Once inside the house he feels the atmosphere become even more oppressive, and his spirit cringes as... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Everett Hale, Washington Irving, Francis Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain - 1917 - 616 Seiten
...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 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
...äutnmn 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, 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
...aiinunn 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 f ound myself, äs the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.... | |
 | Clayton Meeker Hamilton - 1918 - 268 Seiten
...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...insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment with which the mind usually receives even the sternest... | |
 | Joseph Berg Esenwein - 1918 - 490 Seiten
...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...glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom prevaded my spirit. I say insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable,... | |
 | Joseph Berg Esenwein - 1918 - 486 Seiten
...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...glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom prevaded my spirit. I say insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable,... | |
 | Victor Oscar Freeburg - 1918 - 332 Seiten
...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...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 - 256 Seiten
...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 shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher." It is because intense and persistent... | |
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