The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 4A.C. Armstrong & Son, 1884 |
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Page 318 - Look, where he comes ! Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Page 480 - ... in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
Page 381 - Let me term it a mental pendulous pulsation. It was the moral embodiment of man's abstract idea of Time.
Page 507 - IT is to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and...
Page 513 - The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, And the satyr shall cry to his fellow ; The screech owl also shall rest there, And find for herself a place of rest. There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, And hatch, and gather under her shadow : There shall the vultures also be gathered, Every one with her mate.
Page 514 - Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
Page 375 - Occasionally the poetic intellect — that intellect which we now feel to have been the most exalted of all — since those truths which to us were of the most enduring importance could only be reached by that analogy which speaks in proof-tones to the imagination alone, and to the unaided reason bears no weight...
Page 317 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Page 503 - Thirteen Egyptian provinces determined all at once to be free, and to set a magnificent example to the rest of mankind. They assembled their wise men, and concocted the most ingenious constitution it is possible to conceive. For a while they managed remarkably well; only their habit of bragging was prodigious. The thing ended, however, in the consolidation of the thirteen states, with some fifteen or twenty others, in the most odious and insupportable despotism that was ever heard of upon the face...