 ... a sense of insufferable gloom 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 receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate...  Literature and Life ... - Page 265edited by - 1922Full view - About this book
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1839 - 368 pages
...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...sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the leveller upon opium — the bitter lapse into common life — the hideous dropping off of the veil.... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 pages
...even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features...sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium — the bitter lapse into common life — the hideous dropping off of the veil.... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1845 - 288 pages
...even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features...sensation more properly than to the afterdream of the reveller upon opium — the bitter lapse into everyday life — the hideous dropping off of the veil.... | |
 | 1850 - 762 pages
...even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features...sensation more properly than .to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium ; the bitter lapse into everyday life ; me hideous dropping off the veil. There... | |
 | 1850 - 766 pages
...even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me—upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features...sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium ; the bitter lapse into everyday life ; the hideous dropping off the veil. There... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 pages
...even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features...sensation more properly than to the afterdream of the reveller upon opium — the bitter lapse into every!day life — the hideous dropping off of the veil.... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1857 - 560 pages
...even the sternest natural Images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features...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 than... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 578 pages
...even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features...sensation more properly than to the afterdream of the reveller upon opium— the bitter lapse into everyday life — the hideous dropping off of the veil.... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1874 - 216 pages
...even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me, — •upon the mere house and the simple landscape features...sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium, — the bitter lapse into every-day life, — the hideous dropping off of the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1874 - 644 pages
...even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features...sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium — the bitter lapse into every-day life — the hideous dropping of the veil.... | |
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