 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 American Whig Review - Page 2881850Full view - About this book
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1839 - 368 pages
...autumn of the year, when the clouds hang oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of...building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spiiit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because... | |
 | American periodicals - 1839 - 372 pages
...autumn of the year, when the cloude hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of...evening drew on, within >view of the melancholy House of Uslier. I know not Uow it was — but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 686 pages
...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...insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Detective and mystery stories, American - 1845 - 288 pages
...heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country ; and*at length found myself, as the shades of the evening...insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 pages
...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...insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually. receives even the sternest... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1857 - 560 pages
...singular! y*"dreary tract of country /and at length found myself,\as the shades of the evening drew on^i within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know...insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurablej because poetic, sentiment^ with which the mind usually receives even the sternest... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 578 pages
...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...my spirit. I say insufferable ; for the feeling was u/irelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1874 - 644 pages
...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 shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 618 pages
...autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in ihe heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of...with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insullbrable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insullbrable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1878 - 450 pages
...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...insufferable, for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest... | |
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