 Shaking off from my spirit what must have been a dream, I scanned more narrowly the real aspect of the building. Its principal feature seemed to be that of an excessive antiquity. The discoloration of ages had been great. Minute fungi overspread the whole...  Works - Page 295by Edgar Allan Poe - 1876Full view - About this book
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1839 - 368 pages
...decayed trees, and the gray walls, and the silent tarn, in the form of an inelastic vapor or gas— dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued....discoloration of ages had been great. Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the caves. Yet all this was... | |
 | American periodicals - 1839 - 372 pages
...my spitit what must have been a dream, I scanned more narrowly the real aspect of the building. Us principal feature seemed to be that of an excessive...discoloration of ages had been great. Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the caves. Yet all this was... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 686 pages
...the decayed trees, and the grey wall, and the silent tarn, in the form of an inelastic vapour or gas, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued....discoloration of ages had been great. Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves. Yet all this was... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Detective and mystery stories, American - 1845 - 288 pages
...affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn — a pestilent and mystic vapor,...discernible, and leaden-hued. Shaking off from my spirit what titn.nl have been a dream, I scanned more narrowly the real aspect of the building. Its principal feature... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 pages
...tarn — a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, slug/gish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued. j • Shaking off" from my spirit what must have been a...scanned more narrowly the real aspect of the building. It* principal feature seemed to be that of an excessive antiquity. The discoloration of ages had been... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1857 - 560 pages
...affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn — a pestilent and mystic vapor,...Shaking off from my spirit what must have been a dream, 1 scanned more narrowly the real aspect of the building. Ill principal feature seemed to be that of... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1859 - 558 pages
...what must have been a dream, 1 scanned more narrowly the real aspect of the building, lii principa1 feature seemed to be that of an excessive antiquity....spread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves. Yet all this was apart from any extraordinary dilapidation. No portion of... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 578 pages
...silent tarn — a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, slug, gish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hucd. Shaking off from my spirit what must have been a dream,...discoloration of ages had been great. Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves. Yet all this was... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1871 - 556 pages
...trees, and the gray ••all, and the silent tarn — a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, slugpsh, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued. Shaking off...discoloration of ages had been great. Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves. Yet all this was... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1874 - 644 pages
...up from the decayed trees, and the grey wall, and the silent tarn — a pestilent and mystic vapour, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued....discoloration of ages had been great. Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves. Yet all this was... | |
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