Life and PoemsW.J. Widdleton, 1879 - 305 стор. |
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... heart of the young law student ; he was willing and anxious to abandon home , position , profession , and everything , to live only for his love . But there existed a slight impediment to his desires in the person of Mr. Hopkins , who ...
... heart of the young law student ; he was willing and anxious to abandon home , position , profession , and everything , to live only for his love . But there existed a slight impediment to his desires in the person of Mr. Hopkins , who ...
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... was very tenacious in maintaining his own views , and would not yield until his judgment was convinced . He had a sensitive and tender heart , and would do anything to serve a friend . His nature was entirely free 30 LIFE OF EDGAR A. POE .
... was very tenacious in maintaining his own views , and would not yield until his judgment was convinced . He had a sensitive and tender heart , and would do anything to serve a friend . His nature was entirely free 30 LIFE OF EDGAR A. POE .
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... heart , he also took a fancy to me , and sub- mitted his juvenile poems to me , and condescended to ask my critical opinion of them , although he was several years my senior . Poe was the swiftest runner , the best boxer , and the most ...
... heart , he also took a fancy to me , and sub- mitted his juvenile poems to me , and condescended to ask my critical opinion of them , although he was several years my senior . Poe was the swiftest runner , the best boxer , and the most ...
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... heart was " open as day to melting charity , " said of himself that he had been taught to give away thousands before he had learned to earn hundreds . Poe had been allowed - almost encouraged to throw away thousands before he was ...
... heart was " open as day to melting charity , " said of himself that he had been taught to give away thousands before he had learned to earn hundreds . Poe had been allowed - almost encouraged to throw away thousands before he was ...
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... heart was glowing with high hopes , whose soul was full of a noble ambition . He turned with delight from military tactics to peruse the tuneful pages of Virgil ; he neglected mathematics for the fascinating essays of Macaulay , which ...
... heart was glowing with high hopes , whose soul was full of a noble ambition . He turned with delight from military tactics to peruse the tuneful pages of Virgil ; he neglected mathematics for the fascinating essays of Macaulay , which ...
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Сторінка 151 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Сторінка 159 - In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace— Radiant palace— reared its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion, It stood there; Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair.
Сторінка 281 - Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran, — Over the brink of it, Picture it — think of it, Dissolute Man ! Lave in it, drink of it Then, if you can...
Сторінка 156 - IT was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Сторінка 257 - O, lift me from the grass! I die, I faint, I fail! Let thy love in kisses rain On my lips and eyelids pale. My cheek is cold and white, alas! My heart beats loud and fast: Oh! press it close to thine again, Where it will break at last!
Сторінка 134 - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore ; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door. Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as
Сторінка 304 - 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," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Сторінка 280 - Where the lamps quiver So far in the river, With many a light From window and casement, From garret to basement, She stood, with amazement, Houseless by night.
Сторінка 171 - By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule — From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE — out of TIME.
Сторінка 178 - Thank Heaven! the crisis, The danger, is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last — And the fever called "Living" Is conquered at last. Sadly, I know I am shorn of my strength. And no muscle I move As I lie at full length — But no matter! — I feel I am better at length. And I rest so composedly, Now, in my bed, That any beholder Might fancy me dead — Might start at beholding me, Thinking me dead. The moaning and groaning. The sighing and sobbing, Are quieted now, With that horrible...