 DURING THE WHOLE OF a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the...  The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe - Page 291by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853Full view - About this book
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1839 - 368 pages
...shadows wander free, alone. I'. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER. DТ E II GA И i. Г iI E. I h и i м. the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hang oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly... | |
 | American periodicals - 1839 - 372 pages
...the echo, and the low winds moan, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER. Y к и I; л Т( A. FOE. Dcsi5G the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the cloude hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 688 pages
...mention that the MS. alluded to is marked HUM in the Corpus LibraryTHE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER. DURINO the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the...year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heaveris, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country ; and... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Detective and mystery stories, American - 1845 - 288 pages
...luth suspendu ; Sitot qu'on le louche il rfesonne. De Stronger. DURING the whole of a dull, (Jark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when...horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country ; and*at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House... | |
 | Periodicals - 1850 - 766 pages
...The Fall of the House of Usher," is wilder and profounder than the introduction to Der Freyschutz : " During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing along on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country ; and at length found myself as the... | |
 | Periodicals - 1850 - 762 pages
...of Edgar A. Poe. [March, Usher," is wilder and profounder than the introduction to Der Freyschutz : "During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing along on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country ; and at length found myself as the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1874 - 644 pages
...THE HOUSE OF USHER. Son cceur est un luth suspendu ; Sitot qu'on le touche il resonne. De Blranger. DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with... | |
 | Edmund John Armstrong - Essays, Irish - 1877 - 330 pages
...effect. I shall endeavour to illustrate this remark by a brief analysis of the story. It begins with a " dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year," and as the shades of evening grow long the narrator finds himself within view of the melancholy House... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 508 pages
...flood-tide." (From " The Relief of Lucknow," by Robert TS Lowell.) LXXXIII.— THE HOUSE OF USHER. 1. During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...on, within view of the melancholy house of Usher. 2. I know not how it was, but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom... | |
 | Education - 1920 - 706 pages
...puts us in the mood for the story, providing an atmosphere that lends its coloring to every detail: "During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher." Here is the keynote of the story, arid... | |
| |
