 | Edgar Allan Poe - Detective and mystery stories, American - 1845 - 288 pages
...all the massy shutters of our old building ; lighting a couple of tapers which, strongly perfumed, threw out only the ghastliest and feeblest of rays. By the aid of these we then busied our souls in dreams—reading, writing, or conversing, until warned by the clock of the advent of the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 298 pages
...closed all the massy shutters of our old building, lighting a couple of tapers which, strongly perfumed, threw out only the ghastliest and feeblest of rays. By the aid of these we busied our souls in dreams, reading, writing, or conversing, until warned by the clock of the advent... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1857 - 560 pages
...closed all the massy shutters of our old building ; lighted a couple of tapers which, strongly perfumed, threw out only the ghastliest and feeblest of rays. By the aid of these we then busied our souls in dreams—reading, writing, or conversing, until warned by the clock of the advent of the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1859 - 558 pages
...closed all the massy shutters of our old building; lighted a couple of tapers which, strongly perfumed, threw out only the ghastliest and feeblest of rays. By the aid of these we then busied our souls in dreams—reading, writing, or conversing, until warned by the clock of the advent of the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 578 pages
...closed all the massy shutters of our old building; lighted a couple of tapers which, strongly perfumed, threw out only the ghastliest and feeblest of rays. By the aid of these we then busied our souls in dreams—reading, writing, or conversing, until warned by the clock of the advent of the... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Death in literature - 1873 - 490 pages
...reminding us of Butler's charge against the Duke of Bucks, of damming up the lights of nature .mil opening other little blind loopholes, turning day...feeblest of rays. " By the aid of these we then busied our souls in dreams—reading, writing, or conversing, until warned by the clock of the advent of true... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1874 - 644 pages
...all the massive shutters of our old building; lighting a couple of tapers which, strongly perfumed, threw out only the ghastliest and feeblest of rays. By the aid of these we then busied our souls in dreams— reading, writing, or conversing, until warned by the clock of the advent of... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - American literature - 1888 - 264 pages
...all the massive shutters of our old building, lighting a couple of tapers, which, strongly perfumed, threw out only the ghastliest and feeblest of rays. By the aid of these we then busied our souls in dreams, reading, writing, or conversing, until warned by the clock of the advent of the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1895 - 372 pages
...closed all the massy shutters of our old building ; lighted a couple of tapers which, strongly perfumed, threw out only the ghastliest and feeblest of rays. By the aid of these we then busied our souls in dreams—reading, writing, or conversing, until warned by the clock of the advent of the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1903 - 390 pages
...closed all the massy shutters of our old building; lighted a couple of tapers which, strongly perfumed, threw out only the ghastliest and feeblest of rays. By the aid of these we then busied our souls in dreams — reading, writing, or conversing, until warned by the clock of the advent of... | |
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opening other little blind loopholes, turning day into night and night into day. For at the first dawn of morning they closed all the massive shutters of the old building they occupied, and lighted a couple of tapers, which threw out only the ghastliest... 
