| Gems - English poetry - 1866 - 166 pages
...front of bird and bust and door; Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Q Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore —...gaunt, and ominous bird of yore, Meant in croaking " Never more." This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1866 - 200 pages
...front of bird and bust and door ; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore —...gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking " Nevermoru." Thus I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1866 - 332 pages
...front of bird and bust and door ; Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore —...gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking " Never more." This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1867 - 758 pages
...of bird, and bust, and door ; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this +ominous bird of +yore —...ominous bird of yore Meant, in croaking " Nevermore." 13. This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...bust, and door, Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thiukiug what this ominous bird of yore— What this grim,...ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking—"Nevermore!" XIII. This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl,... | |
| Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 pages
...front of bird, and bust, and door. Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore—...syllable expressing To the fowl, whose fiery eyes now burn'd into my bosom's core. This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's... | |
| John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...of bird, and bust, and door ; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore —...ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking, " Nevermore." Thus I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl, whose fiery eyes now burned... | |
| 1868 - 574 pages
...or she happens to be reading. Sitting in the calm retirement of my own arm-chair on Whit• Monday, "engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing to...whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core"— I allude to the pipe of bird's-eye to which poverty has reduced me— having in vain tried to get my... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...front of bird and bust and door; Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy into fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore —...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... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore —...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... | |
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