 Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore: Till...  New National Fifth Reader - Page 456by Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
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...spoken" reply, the speaker assumes that it is merely parroting the words of "some unhappy master": "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock...and followed faster till his songs one burden bore — " (Mabbott, 1:367) The speaker's words link the "croak" of the raven with the master-slave relation... | |
 | Paul Negri - 2002 - 146 pages
...— On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." Then the bird said, "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly...the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never-nevermore."" But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling, Straight I wheeled... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 pages
...— On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." Then the bird said "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly...the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never— nevermore.' " But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled... | |
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...— On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." Then the bird said "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly...the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore.'" But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled... | |
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...before On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.' Then the bird said, 'Nevermore.' Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly...the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of "Never - nevermore. " ' But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight 1 wheeled... | |
 | Sourcebooks, Inc - 2003 - 182 pages
...— On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before." Then the bird said, "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly...the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore.'" But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 pages
...— On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." Then the bird said "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly...fast and followed faster till his songs one burden boreTill the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore.' " But the raven... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - 2003 - 332 pages
...understatement for this word that, as the narrator is quick to observe, breaks into the silence with a "reply so aptly spoken": 'Doubtless,' said I, 'what...and followed faster till his songs one burden bore — In stanza after stanza the word "nevermore," sometimes in quotation marks and sometimes not, is... | |
 | Milton Meltzer - 2003 - 156 pages
...morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." Then the bird said, "Nevermore." Wondering at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,...unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster so when Hope he would adjure — Stern Despair returned, instead of the sweet Hope he dared adjureThat... | |
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...the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before". Then the bird said, „Nevermore". (11) Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly...spoken, „Doubtless", said I, „what it utters is it only stock and store Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and... | |
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