Little Classics, Volume 3Rossiter Johnson Houghton, Mifflin, 1875 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 18
Page 20
... give below all the material testimony elicited . " Pauline Dubourg , laundress , deposes that she has known both the deceased for three years , having washed for them during that period . The old lady and her daughter seemed on good ...
... give below all the material testimony elicited . " Pauline Dubourg , laundress , deposes that she has known both the deceased for three years , having washed for them during that period . The old lady and her daughter seemed on good ...
Page 34
... give direction to all further progress in the investigation of the mystery . I said ' legitimate deductions ' ; but my meaning is not thus fully expressed . I designed to im- ply that the deductions are the sole proper ones , and that ...
... give direction to all further progress in the investigation of the mystery . I said ' legitimate deductions ' ; but my meaning is not thus fully expressed . I designed to im- ply that the deductions are the sole proper ones , and that ...
Page 35
... give a definite form a certain tendency to my inquiries in the chamber . " Let us now transport ourselves , in fancy , to this chamber . What shall we first seek here ? The means of egress employed by the murderers . It is not too much ...
... give a definite form a certain tendency to my inquiries in the chamber . " Let us now transport ourselves , in fancy , to this chamber . What shall we first seek here ? The means of egress employed by the murderers . It is not too much ...
Page 45
... gives the idea of a firm and fixed hold . There is no slipping apparent . Each finger has retained , possibly until the death of the victim , the fearful grasp by which it originally embedded itself . Attempt now to place all your ...
... gives the idea of a firm and fixed hold . There is no slipping apparent . Each finger has retained , possibly until the death of the victim , the fearful grasp by which it originally embedded itself . Attempt now to place all your ...
Page 50
... give me all the information in your power about these murders in the Rue Morgue . " Dupin said the last words in a very low tone , and very quietly . Just as quietly , too , he walked toward the door , locked it , and put the key into ...
... give me all the information in your power about these murders in the Rue Morgue . " Dupin said the last words in a very low tone , and very quietly . Just as quietly , too , he walked toward the door , locked it , and put the key into ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
appeared Aunt Mercy Bannadonna Barham belfry bell beneath Bessie body called Chantilly creature Cyclops dark daugh daughter door doubt dreadful dungeon Dupin Eccellenza entered Epicurus escaped exclaimed eyes face father fear feel feet Foster free agency Frenchman fruiterer girl glance ground hair Hampstead hand head heard heart Heaven Henry Foster horrible horror hour human iron Kathayan knew laudanum light lips living looked Ludovico Sforza Madame L'Espanaye Mademoiselle manner marriage means mechanician mind morning murder mystery nail nature ness never night once Ourang-Outang party passed peculiar perhaps person philosopher pity prayed prison replied rich hills Roche roof Rue Morgue sailor seemed shrill voice silent sleep smile soul sound Squire Lauson stairs stood strange sudden death suddenly suppose sure syllabification thing thought tion Tolfi tremulous utter Vivenzio wall whist wife woman words wretch young
Popular passages
Page 11 - ... among writers on morals. Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater indeed, than that between the fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous. It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Page 182 - From lightning and tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine ; from battle and murder, and from sudden death, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 200 - Before us lay an avenue, straight as an arrow, six hundred yards, perhaps, in length; and the umbrageous trees, which rose in a regular line from either side, meeting high overhead, gave to it the character of a cathedral aisle.
Page 13 - I could not help remarking and admiring (although from his rich ideality I had been prepared to expect it) a peculiar analytic ability in Dupin. He seemed, too, to take an eager delight in its exercise — if not exactly in its display — and did not hesitate to confess the pleasure thus derived.
Page 29 - To look at a star by glances— to view it in a side-long way, by turning toward it the exterior portions of the retina (more susceptible of feeble impressions of light than the interior), is to behold the star distinctly— is to have the best appreciation of its lustre— a lustre which grows dim just in proportion as we turn our vision fully upon it.
Page 174 - It would have been inhuman in our philosopher to have clouded, even with a doubt, the sunshine of this belief. His discourse, indeed, was very remote from metaphysical disquisition, or religious controversy.
Page 174 - Why should not the same thing be said of religion ? Trust me, I feel it in the same way, an energy, an inspiration, which I would not lose for all the blessings of sense or enjoyments of the world; yet so far from lessening my relish of the pleasures of life, methinks I feel it heighten them all. The thought of receiving it from God, adds the blessing of sentiment to that of sensation in every good thing I possess; and when calamities overtake me, and I have had my share, it confers a dignity on...
Page 177 - La Roche!" exclaimed he in reply. "Alas! it was she indeed!" The appearance of surprise and grief which his countenance assumed attracted the notice of the peasant with whom he talked. He came up closer to Mr. ; '• I perceive, sir, you were acquainted with Mademoiselle La Roche.
Page 8 - ... the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. In this latter, where the pieces have different and bizarre motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound.