Tales of Mystery, Imagination, & Humour: And PoemsH. Vizetelly, 1852 - 256 pagina's |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 20
Pagina 28
... imagine my astonishment when I perceived , in fact , the figure of a death's - head just where it seemed to me I had made the drawing of the beetle . For a moment I was too much amazed to think with accuracy . I knew that my design was ...
... imagine my astonishment when I perceived , in fact , the figure of a death's - head just where it seemed to me I had made the drawing of the beetle . For a moment I was too much amazed to think with accuracy . I knew that my design was ...
Pagina 36
... imagine from the first hazy inspection of the characters . These cha- racters , as any one might readily guess , form a cipher ; that is to say , they convey a meaning ; but then , from what is known of Kidd , I could not suppose him ...
... imagine from the first hazy inspection of the characters . These cha- racters , as any one might readily guess , form a cipher ; that is to say , they convey a meaning ; but then , from what is known of Kidd , I could not suppose him ...
Pagina 64
... imagine that in the centre of the channel of the Maelstrom is an abyss penetrating the globe , and issuing in some very remote part - the Gulf of Bothnia being somewhat decidedly named in one instance . This opinion , idle in itself ...
... imagine that in the centre of the channel of the Maelstrom is an abyss penetrating the globe , and issuing in some very remote part - the Gulf of Bothnia being somewhat decidedly named in one instance . This opinion , idle in itself ...
Pagina 71
... imagine given out by the waste - pipes of many thousand steam- vessels letting off their steam all together . We were now in the belt of surf that always surrounds the whirl ; and I thought , of course , that another moment would plunge ...
... imagine given out by the waste - pipes of many thousand steam- vessels letting off their steam all together . We were now in the belt of surf that always surrounds the whirl ; and I thought , of course , that another moment would plunge ...
Pagina 107
... imagine the window open at the time , might even have swung himself into the room . " I wish you to bear especially in mind that I have spoken of a very unusual degree of activity as requisite to success in so hazardous and so difficult ...
... imagine the window open at the time , might even have swung himself into the room . " I wish you to bear especially in mind that I have spoken of a very unusual degree of activity as requisite to success in so hazardous and so difficult ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
altogether Annabel Lee appeared assassins Auguste Dupin Barrière du Roule Beauvais beetle bells blackguards boat body called catalepsy chamber character circumstances Commerciel committed corpse dark death's-head door doubt Dupin elopement endeavour escape Eustache evidence excitement eyes fact fancy feet fell Frenchman gang girl Gliddon hand head heard idea imagine immediately Jupiter known L'Etoile Legrand length letter limb looked Madame Deluc Madame l'Espanaye Marie Rogêt massa matter means mind minutes morning mummy murder mystery natural art nature nearly never night observed once ordinary ourang-outang outrage paper parchment Paris period person police Ponnonner prefect purloined letter question Quoth the Raven replied river Rue des Drômes Rue Morgue scarabæus scarcely scene seemed skull soul stereotomy struggle Sullivan's Island Sunday suppose sure suspicion thicket thing thought thrown tion torn traces tulip-tree Valdemar voice whole words
Populaire passages
Pagina 229 - Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE. For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE ; And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE.
Pagina 228 - 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.
Pagina 232 - 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.
Pagina 216 - Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping; and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you.
Pagina 229 - With a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago. In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsmen came And bore her away from me.
Pagina 216 - Lenore!' Merely this and nothing more. Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before 'Surely...
Pagina 169 - When I wish to find out how wise, or how stupid, or how good, or how wicked is any one, or what are his thoughts at the moment, I fashion the expression of my face as accurately as possible in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to see what thoughts or sentiments arise in my mind or heart, as if to match or correspond with the expression.
Pagina 227 - She revels in a region of sighs: She has seen that the tears are not dry on These cheeks, where the worm never dies, And has come past the stars of the Lion To point us the path to the skies To the Lethean peace of the skies Come up, in despite of the Lion, To shine on us with her bright eyes Come up through the lair of the Lion, With love in her luminous eyes.
Pagina 218 - But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in 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, What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking, "Nevermore.
Pagina 218 - 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.