Full of these ideas, I prepared myself with a pair of green spectacles, and called one fine morning, quite by accident at the ministerial hotel. I found D at home, yawning, lounging, and dawdling, as usual, and pretending to be in the last extremity of... Pitman's Journal of Commercial Education - Page 921903Full view - About this book
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1845 - 288 pages
...home, yawning, lounging, and dawdling, as usual, and pretending to be in the last extremity of ennui. He is, perhaps, the most really energetic human being...of my host. " I paid especial attention to a large writing-table near which he sat, and upon which lay confusedly, some miscellaneous letters and other... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 298 pages
...home, yawning, lounging, and dawdling, as usual, and pretending to be in the last extremity of ennui. He is, perhaps, the most really energetic human being...of my host. " I paid especial attention to a large writing-table near which he sat, and upon which lay confusedly, some miscellaneous letters and other... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 308 pages
...green spectacles, and called one fine morning, quite by accident, at the ministerial hotel. I found D "To be even with him, I complained of my weak eyes,...intent only upon the conversation of my host. • • i at home, yawning, lounging, and dawdling, as usual, and pretending to be in the last extremity of ennui.... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 pages
...home, yawning, lounging, and dawdling, as usual, and pretending- to be in the last extremity of ennui. He is, perhaps, the most really energetic human being...of my host. " I paid especial attention to a large writing-table near which he sat, and upon which lay confusedly, some miscellaneous letters and other... | |
| 1857 - 316 pages
...home, yawning, lounging, and dawdling as usual, and pretending to be in the last extremity of ennui. He is, perhaps, the most really energetic human being...of my host. " I paid especial attention to a large writing-table near which he sat, and upon which lay confusedly some miscellaneous letters and other... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1857 - 560 pages
...lounging, and dawdling, as usual, and pretending to be in the last extremity of ennui. He is, perhaps, 'he most really energetic human being now alive — but...of my host. " I paid especial attention to a large writing-table near which he sat, and upon which lay confusedly, some miscellaneous letters and other... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 568 pages
...home, yawning, lounging, and dawdling, as usual, and pretending to be in the last extremity of ennui. He is, perhaps, the most really energetic human being...necessity of the spectacles, under cover of which [ cautiously and thoroughly surveyed the whole apartment, while seemingly intent only upon the conversation... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1871 - 556 pages
...home, yawning, lounging, and dawdling, as usual, and pretending to be in the last extremity of ennui. He is, perhaps, the most really energetic human being...of my host. " I paid especial attention to a large writing-table near which he sat, and upon which lay confusedly, some miscellaneous letters and other... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1874 - 644 pages
...home, yawning, lounging, and dawdling, as usual, and pretending to be in the last extremity of ennui. He is, perhaps, the most really energetic human being...of my host. " I paid especial attention to a large writing-table near which he sat, and upon which lay confusedly some miscellaneous letters and other... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...home, yawning, lounging, and dawdling as usual, and pretending to be in the last extremity of ennui. Ho is, perhaps, the most really energetic human being...alive, but that is only when nobody sees him. " To bo even with him, I complained of my weak eyes, and lamented the necessity of the spectacles, under... | |
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