Tales of Mystery, Imagination and Humour ...H. Vizetelly, 1852 - 479 pages |
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... fell a silvery - silken veil of light , With quietude , and sultriness , and slumber , Upon the upturn'd faces of a thousand Roses that grew in an enchanted garden , Where no wind dared to stir , unless on tiptoe- Fell on the upturn'd ...
... fell a silvery - silken veil of light , With quietude , and sultriness , and slumber , Upon the upturn'd faces of a thousand Roses that grew in an enchanted garden , Where no wind dared to stir , unless on tiptoe- Fell on the upturn'd ...
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... fell , my friend now produced from his pocket a tape - measure . Fas- tening one end of this at that point of the trunk of the tree which was nearest the peg , he unrolled it till it reached the peg , and thence farther unrolled it , in ...
... fell , my friend now produced from his pocket a tape - measure . Fas- tening one end of this at that point of the trunk of the tree which was nearest the peg , he unrolled it till it reached the peg , and thence farther unrolled it , in ...
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... fell to work with a zeal worthy a more rational cause ; and as the glare fell upon our persons and implements , I could not help thinking how picturesque a group we com- posed , and how strange and suspicious our labours must have ...
... fell to work with a zeal worthy a more rational cause ; and as the glare fell upon our persons and implements , I could not help thinking how picturesque a group we com- posed , and how strange and suspicious our labours must have ...
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... fell upon his knees . " You scoundrel ! " said Legrand , hissing out the syllables from between his clenched teeth " you infernal black villain ! -speak , I tell you ! -answer me this instant , without prevarication ! —which — which is ...
... fell upon his knees . " You scoundrel ! " said Legrand , hissing out the syllables from between his clenched teeth " you infernal black villain ! -speak , I tell you ! -answer me this instant , without prevarication ! —which — which is ...
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... fell , to a spot about three inches to the westward of its former position . Taking now the tape - measure from the nearest point of the trunk to the peg , as before , and continuing the extension in a straight line to the distance of ...
... fell , to a spot about three inches to the westward of its former position . Taking now the tape - measure from the nearest point of the trunk to the peg , as before , and continuing the extension in a straight line to the distance of ...
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Page 223 - Once upon a midnight dreary, While I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious Volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, Suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, Rapping at my chamber door ; "Tis some visitor," I muttered, ' ' Tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 236 - 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.
Page 225 - 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.
Page 228 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend! " I shrieked, upstarting' "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 231 - Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells ! How it swells ; How it dwells On the Future ! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells...
Page 240 - 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.
Page 236 - And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child. In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
Page 232 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, — By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells, Of the bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells — In...
Page 230 - 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; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme. To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells,— From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Page 241 - I dwelt alone In a world of moan, And my soul was a stagnant tide, Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride — Till the yellow-haired young Eulalie became my smiling bride. Ah, less — less bright The stars of the night Than the eyes of the radiant girl ! And never a flake That the vapor can make With the moon-tints of purple and pearl, Can vie with the modest Eulalie's most unregarded curl — Can compare with the bright-eyed Eulalie's most humble and careless curl. Now...