 I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain, upon the bleak walls, upon the vacant eye-like windows, upon a few rank sedges, and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees, with an utter depression...  The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With a Memoir - Page 291by Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1857Full view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1839 - 372 pages
...say insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that Imlf-ple.ieuralile, because poetie, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even...terrible. I looked upon the scene before me — upon the meie house, and the simple landscape features of lhe domain — upon the bleak walls — upon the vacant... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1839 - 368 pages
...of that half-pleasurable, because poetie, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even tin- sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mcre house, and the simple landscape features of the domain — upon the bleak walls — upon the vacant... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 686 pages
...pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually...sedges — and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees — with an utter depression of soul, which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Detective and mystery stories, American - 1845 - 288 pages
...pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually...sedges — and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees — with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly... | |
 | Periodicals - 1850 - 762 pages
...pervaded my spirit. I say, insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasureable, because poetic, sentiment with which the mind usually...rank sedges; and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees ; with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly... | |
 | Periodicals - 1850 - 766 pages
...pervaded my spirit. I say, insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasureable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually...desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me—upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain ; upon the bleak walls ;... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 578 pages
...pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable ; for the feeling was u/irelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually...sedges — -and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees — with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1874 - 216 pages
...pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually...sedges, — and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees, — with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1874 - 644 pages
...pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasureable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually...sedges — and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees — with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 618 pages
...pervaded my spirit. I say insullbrable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half- pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually...sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. 1 looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the... | |
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