 I had so worked upon my imagination as really to believe that about the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere peculiar to themselves and their immediate vicinity — an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 157edited by - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Juvenile Fiction - 2003 - 448 pages
...of the sensations which oppressed me. I had so worked upon my imagination as really to believe that about the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere...which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn — a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible,... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...of the sensations which oppressed me. I had so worked upon my imagination as really to believe that about the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere...which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn — a pestilent and mystic vapour, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 2009 - 580 pages
...of the sensations which oppressed me. I had so worked upon my imagination as really to believe that about the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere...which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn — a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible,... | |
 | Harold Kaplan - 336 pages
...contextual dynamism of Thoreau's images, or be more touched by the poignance of what he is celebrating. About the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere...decayed trees, and the grey wall, and the silent tarn — a pestilent and mystic vapour, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued.28 The House... | |
 | Michael Ramseur - 2005 - 266 pages
...masterpiece, The Fall of the House of Usher: "I'd so worked upon my imagination as to really believe that about the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere...which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn- a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Children's stories, American - 2006 - 92 pages
...— name paradoxical — contradictory I had so worked upon my imagination as really to believe that about the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere...which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn — a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 2006 - 50 pages
...of the sensations which oppressed me. I had so worked upon my imagination as really to believe that about the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere...which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn - a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible,... | |
 | Anthony Wilson - Social Science - 2009 - 208 pages
...compositional detail, reinforces the negative sense of stagnation witJi an image of miasma outside: "[A] bout the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere...which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn — a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible,... | |
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