 | 1907 - 404 Seiten
...the most complete, perhaps, is the Virginia edition, published by TY Crowell & Co., New York.] IDRINO the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hang oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly... | |
 | Edwin Mims - 1910 - 460 Seiten
...USHER1 BY EDGAR ALLAN POE Son coeur est un luth suspendu; Sitdt qu'on le louche il rfoonne. BERANOER.* DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1911 - 442 Seiten
...connection with this criticism. His initial sentence thus indicates the atmosphere of the story:— " During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher." Each following stroke of the master's brush adds to the desired effect. The black and lurid... | |
 | Alice B. Macdonald - 1911 - 630 Seiten
...Find words that give variety in the following extract. See if you could substitute still other words. During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, aa the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was... | |
 | Evelyn May Albright - 1911 - 296 Seiten
...Usher," which strikes the tragic note to which the whole is keyed. "During the whole of a dull, dark, soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the...dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was, but, with the... | |
 | William Franklin Webster - 1912 - 368 Seiten
...upon the words; and my chief wish was to have the thing begin and be done with it. — STEVENSON. 1 2. During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable... | |
 | Walter B. Pitkin - 1912 - 284 Seiten
...opening is conspicuously weaker than the preceding types. 4. The Fall of the House of Usher, by 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. I do not know how it was — but with... | |
 | Abraham Royer Brubacher, Dorothy Ermina Snyder - 1912 - 400 Seiten
...with all its stillness it is far from being a home of boredom. JOHN RICHARD GREEN : Stray Studies. (3) 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... | |
 | William Franklin Webster - 1912 - 392 Seiten
...upon the words; and my chief wish was to have the thing begin and be done with it. — STEVENSON.* 2. During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively 1 By permiuion of the Publishen, Chules Scribner'a Sons. low in the heavens, I had been passing alone,... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby, John Baker Opdycke - 1913 - 624 Seiten
...single moment; being — that's the truth — beside himself with joy. — DICKENS' The Chimes. 2. During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable... | |
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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... 
