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... appeared before you ever gay and hap- py , while my heart has been secretly crushed with distress . Now that your work is accom- plished , now that you are about to present to the world a statue which must perpetuate your fame , I feel ...
... appeared before you ever gay and hap- py , while my heart has been secretly crushed with distress . Now that your work is accom- plished , now that you are about to present to the world a statue which must perpetuate your fame , I feel ...
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... appeared at his door , he was astonished to find the street below crowded with people ; and as he descried the ... appearance , yet he could not but feel himself hon- ored by the flattering eagerness which they dis- played for an early ...
... appeared at his door , he was astonished to find the street below crowded with people ; and as he descried the ... appearance , yet he could not but feel himself hon- ored by the flattering eagerness which they dis- played for an early ...
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... appeared , Mr. P. has written some of his best things ; amongst them The Raven , and Dreamland - poems - and M. Valdemar's case - a prose narrative . " The Raven " is a singularly beautiful poem . Many readers who prefer sunshine to the ...
... appeared , Mr. P. has written some of his best things ; amongst them The Raven , and Dreamland - poems - and M. Valdemar's case - a prose narrative . " The Raven " is a singularly beautiful poem . Many readers who prefer sunshine to the ...
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... appeared to be fainting , and no attendants were within call . I remembered where was deposited a decanter of some light wine which had been ordered by her physicians , and hastened across the chamber to procure it . But as I stepped ...
... appeared to be fainting , and no attendants were within call . I remembered where was deposited a decanter of some light wine which had been ordered by her physicians , and hastened across the chamber to procure it . But as I stepped ...
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... appeared , and perhaps the very last professing to contain anything new that will ever appear , is this somewhat voluminous book of General Count Montholon . It contains what must be considered the latest and most author- itative ...
... appeared , and perhaps the very last professing to contain anything new that will ever appear , is this somewhat voluminous book of General Count Montholon . It contains what must be considered the latest and most author- itative ...
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Página 35 - This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch...
Página 35 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou...
Página 58 - And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning, as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters...
Página 35 - But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. Nothing further then he uttered - not a feather then he fluttered Till I scarcely more than muttered, 'Other friends have flown before On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.
Página 35 - thing of evil! prophet still, if bird or devil! Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted On this home by Horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I implore!
Página 238 - So, cast and mingled with his very frame. The mind's disease, its ruling passion came; Each vital humour which should feed the whole, Soon flows to this, in body and in soul: Whatever warms the heart, or fills the head, As the mind opens, and its functions spread, Imagination plies her dangerous art, And pours it all upon the peccant part.
Página 241 - Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Página 62 - IN that delightful land which is washed by the Delaware's waters, Guarding in sylvan shades the name of Penn the apostle, Stands on the banks of its beautiful stream the city he founded. There all the air is balm, and the peach is the emblem of beauty, And the streets still re-echo the names of the trees of the forest, As if they fain would appease the Dryads whose haunts they molested.
Página 477 - Let Fate do her worst ; there are relics of joy, Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy ; Which come in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear.
Página 35 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...