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" In this there was much that reminded me of the specious totality of old woodwork which has rotted for long years in some neglected vault, with no disturbance from the breath of the external air. "
The Art of Writing English: A Book for College Classes - Page 296
by Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes - 1913 - 382 pages
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Literature and Life ...

Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 pages
...there was much that reminded me of the specious totality of old woodwork which has rotted for long years in some neglected vault, with no disturbance...breath of the external air. Beyond this indication of 10 extensive decay, however, the fabric gave little token of instability. Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing...
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Tales

Edgar Allan Poe - 1927 - 570 pages
...there was much that reminded me of the spacious totality of old woodwork which has rotted for long years in some neglected vault with no disturbance...little token of instability. Perhaps the eye of a scrutinising observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the...
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Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe - 1975 - 1042 pages
...there was much that reminded me of the specious totality of old wood-work which has rotted for long oo concrete reveries of Fuseli. One of the phantasmagoric...spirit of abstraction, may he shadowed forth, although instahility. Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have discovered a harely perceptible...
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The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely

Anthony Vidler - 1994 - 286 pages
...vault, to this once-living abode; its fabric was reminiscent of "old wood-work which has rotted for some years in some neglected vault, with no disturbance from the breath of the external air."3 The house was then a crypt, predestined to be buried in its turn, an event prefigured in the...
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Edgar Allan Poe - 1993 - 320 pages
...there was much that reminded me of the specious totality of old woodwork which has rotted for long years in some neglected vault, with no disturbance...little token of instability. Perhaps the eye of a scrutinising observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the...
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Gothic Readings: The First Wave, 1764-1840

Rictor Norton - 2005 - 788 pages
...there was much that reminded me of the specious totality of old woodwork which has rotted for long years in some neglected vault, with no disturbance...little token of instability. Perhaps the eye of a scrutinising observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the...
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Mystery tales

Edgar Allan Poe - 2001 - 194 pages
...there was much that reminded me of the specious totality of old woodwork which has rotted for long years in some neglected vault, with no disturbance...little token of instability. Perhaps the eye of a scrutinising observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the...
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Slayers, Saviors, Servants, and Sex: An Exposé of Kingdom Fungi

David Moore - 2001 - 192 pages
...there was much that reminded me of the specious totality of old wood-work which has rotted for long years in some neglected vault, with no disturbance from the breath of the external air." So, if the Ushers had taken Poe's pest control advice rather than dancing to his dramatic tune maybe...
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Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative

David Herman - 2004 - 500 pages
...nondescription, of how Usher's house might appear to the gaze of a merely hypothetical observer: 7. Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have...which, extending from the roof of the building in the front, made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction, until it became lost in the sullen waters...
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The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe

Kevin J. Hayes - 2002 - 290 pages
...the house reminds the narrator of "the specious totality of old wood-work which has rotted for long years in some neglected vault, with no disturbance from the breath of the external air" (P&T, 320). And because the narrator, in crossing the causeway, is about to enter this closed universe...
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