 I know not why, except that an instinctive spirit prompted me — to certain low and indefinite sounds which came, through the pauses of the storm, at long intervals, I knew not whence. Overpowered by an intense sentiment of horror, unaccountable yet...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 165edited by - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - American literature - 1922 - 648 pages
...clothes with haste — for I felt 90 that I should sleep no more during the night — and endeavored to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into...by pacing rapidly to and fro through the apartment. STORIES IN PROSE I presently recognized it as that of Usher. In an insta*nt afterwards he rapped with... | |
 | Novelle - 1925 - 568 pages
...whence. Overpowered by an intense sentiment of horror, unaccountable yet unendurable, I threw on my clothes with haste (for I felt that I should sleep no more during the night), and endeavored to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into which I had fallen, by pacing rapidly... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...whence. Overpowered by an intense sentiment of horror, unaccountable yet unendurable, I threw on my endeavored to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into which I had fallen, by pacing rapidly... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1927 - 570 pages
...whence. Over-- powered by an intense sentiment of horror, unaccountable yet unendurable, I threw on my clothes with haste (for I felt that I should sleep...presently recognised it as that of Usher. In an instant afterward he rapped with a gentle touch at my door, and entered, bearing a lamp. His countenance was... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Criticism - 1927 - 956 pages
...whence. Overpowered by an intense sentiment of horror, unaccountable yet unendurable, I threw on my f the forest, in the surf that complains to the shore, in the fresh breath of the w endeavored to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into which I had 'fallen by pacing rapidly... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Literary Collections - 1975 - 1042 pages
...on my clothes with haste ( for I felt that I should sleep no more during the night) , and endeavored ty or with Truth. A few words, however, in explanation....the Beautiful. In the contemplation of Beauty we recognized it as that of Usher. In an instant afterward he rapped, with a gentle touch, at my door,... | |
 | Gary Richard Thompson, Virgil Llewellyn Lokke - American fiction - 1981 - 412 pages
...[the] feeling of horror." But this emphatic diction does not reflect the laconic dry ness of the text: "to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into which I had fallen." To summarize: In the three stages of the crisis experience, the narrator's sanity and savoir-faire... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 2004 - 450 pages
...no more during the night), and endeavored to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into which 1 had fallen by pacing rapidly to and fro through the...adjoining staircase arrested my attention. I presently recognized it as that of Usher. In an instant afterward he rapped, with a gentle touch, at my door,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 1984 - 1440 pages
...whence. Overpowered by an intense sentiment of horror, unaccountable yet unendurable, I threw on my clothes with haste (for I felt that I should sleep no more during the night), and endeavored to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into which I had fallen, by pacing rapidly... | |
 | George E. Haggerty - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 216 pages
...whence. Overpowered by an intense sentiment of horror, unaccountable yet unendurable, I threw on my clothes with haste (for I felt that I should sleep no more during the night), and endeavored to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into which I had fallen, by pacing rapidly... | |
| |
