The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: The literatiRedfield, 1850 - American literature |
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... True merit , on the same principle , is apt to be slightly overrated ; but , upon the whole , there is a close approxi- mation to absolute honesty of opinion ; and this honesty is farther secured by the mere trouble to which it puts one ...
... True merit , on the same principle , is apt to be slightly overrated ; but , upon the whole , there is a close approxi- mation to absolute honesty of opinion ; and this honesty is farther secured by the mere trouble to which it puts one ...
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... true , For her heart was cold to all but gold , And the rich came not to woo . Ah , honored well are charms to sell When priests the selling do ! Now , walking there was one more fair- A slight girl , lily - pale , And she had unseen ...
... true , For her heart was cold to all but gold , And the rich came not to woo . Ah , honored well are charms to sell When priests the selling do ! Now , walking there was one more fair- A slight girl , lily - pale , And she had unseen ...
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... true to herself , she will assuredly win a very enviable distinction . She has done well , wonderfully well , both in tragedy and comedy ; but if she knew her own strength , she would confine herself nearly altogether to the de- picting ...
... true to herself , she will assuredly win a very enviable distinction . She has done well , wonderfully well , both in tragedy and comedy ; but if she knew her own strength , she would confine herself nearly altogether to the de- picting ...
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... true poetic spirit , but they are frequently chargeable with plagiarism , or something much like it . True , I have seen but three of Mr. Aldrich's compositions in verse - the three ( or perhaps there are four of them , ) included by ...
... true poetic spirit , but they are frequently chargeable with plagiarism , or something much like it . True , I have seen but three of Mr. Aldrich's compositions in verse - the three ( or perhaps there are four of them , ) included by ...
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... true by the novel or unexpected , by the introduction of touches which other artists would be sure to omit as irrelevant to the subject . This faculty , too , springs from her subjectiveness , which leads her to paint a scene less by ...
... true by the novel or unexpected , by the introduction of touches which other artists would be sure to omit as irrelevant to the subject . This faculty , too , springs from her subjectiveness , which leads her to paint a scene less by ...
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Page 308 - And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe; For all averred I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow!
Page 59 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 174 - 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! Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago...
Page 329 - So live, that when thy summons comes, to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 185 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 323 - FULL knee-deep lies the winter snow, And the winter winds are wearily sighing : Toll ye the church-bell sad and slow, And tread softly and speak low, For the old year lies a-dying. Old year, you must not die ; You came to us so readily, You lived with us so steadily, Old year, you shall not die.
Page 293 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours.
Page 197 - In the whole composition there should be no word written of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one preestablished design.
Page 252 - He acts upon the principle that if a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well: — and the thing that he "does" especially well is the public.
Page 210 - And star-dials pointed to morn, As the star-dials hinted of morn, At the end of our path a liquescent And nebulous lustre was born, Out of which a miraculous crescent Arose with a duplicate horn, Astarte's bediamonded crescent Distinct with its duplicate horn.