...pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually...sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. By the simple expedient of creating a character who experiences the rhetoric in his own person, it...

...pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment with which the mind usually...decayed trees - with an utter depression of soul which 1 can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium...

...insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. . . . The feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment with which the mind usually...even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible."1 And yet the House of Usher, in Poe's description, while evoking premonitions of "shadowy...

...insufferable gloom. "I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually...even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible."55 Now, according to the phrenologists, the organ of Ideality "consists in a taste for the...

...registering a "sense of insufferable gloom," a "feeling. . . unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually...sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible," 52 discusses Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful,...

...pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic sentiment with which the mind usually...receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate and terrible. I looked upon the scene before me . . . which I can compare to no earthly sensation more...

...the huilding, a sense of insufferahle gloom pervaded my spirit. . . . I looked upon the scene hefore me - upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain - upon the hleak walls upon the vacant eye-like windows upon a few rank sedges and upon a few white trunks of...

...sister, Madeline. From his first sight of the House of Usher, a strange dread overcomes the narrator: I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere...decayed trees — with an utter depression of soul. . . . There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart — an unredeemed dreariness of thought...

...IchErzähler der Geschichte beim Anblick des Anwesens seines Jugendfreundes Roderick Usher folgende Gedanken: I looked upon the scene before me - upon the mere...Windows - upon a few rank sedges - and upon a few whke t runks of decayed 1063Pabst, "Raum und Architektur", 25. 1064Newman, "LostHighuuy", 49. 1065Rodley,...

...length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. . . I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere...walls — upon the vacant eye-like windows — upon the few rank sedges — and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees — with an utter depression of...