Edgar Allan PoeHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 354 pages |
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Page 153 - In the whole composition there should be no word written of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one preestablished design.
Page 249 - Events not to be controlled have prevented me from making, at any time, any serious effort in what, under happier circumstances, would have been the field of my choice. With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion ; and the passions should be held in reverence ; they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Page 84 - And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast: for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings,, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable, fell duskily upon our ears in the well remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.
Page 275 - There was no clothing on the bed, which was only straw, but a snow-white counterpane and sheets. The weather was cold, and the sick lady had the dreadful chills that accompany the hectic fever of consumption. She lay on the straw-bed, wrapped in her husband's great-coat, with a large tortoise-shell cat in her bosom.
Page 56 - Poe soon began to chafe under the discipline, though he stood high and well in his classes : third in French and seventeenth in mathematics, in a class of eighty-seven. One of his contemporaries there indeed writes : " He was an accomplished French scholar, and had a wonderful aptitude for mathematics...
Page 78 - ... blue devils. It belongs, however, to your age and temper to be thus buffeted — but be assured, it only wants a little resolution to master the adversary forever.
Page 287 - To the few who love me and whom I love; to those who feel rather than to those who think; to the dreamers and those who put faith in dreams as in the only realities...
Page 44 - Frankly, Sir, do I declare that he is no relation to me whatever; that I have many whom I have taken an active interest to promote theirs ; with no other feeling than that, every man is my care, if he be in distress ; for myself I ask nothing but I do request your kindness to aid this youth in the promotion of his future prospects.
Page 188 - His manner, except during his fits of intoxication, was very quiet and gentlemanly ; he was usually dressed with simplicity and elegance ; and when once he sent for me to visit him, during a period of illness caused by protracted and anxious watching at the side of his sick wife, I -was impressed by the singular neatness and the air of refinement in his home. It was in a small house, in one of the pleasant and silent...
Page 147 - Most surely they have not yet taught him to read through the medium of a publisher's will, nor convinced him that the interests of letters are unallied with the interests of truth. It shall be the first and chief purpose of the Magazine now proposed to become known as one where may be found at all times, and upon all subjects, an honest and a fearless opinion. It shall be a leading object to assert in precept, and to maintain in practice the rights, while in effect it demonstrates the advantages...