Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,— " Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly... The first (-sixth) 'Standard' reader - Page 265by James Stuart Laurie - 1863Full view - About this book
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...Perched upon a bast of Pallas, just above my chamber door — Perched, and sat, and nothing more. " Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,...name is, on the night's Plutonian shore ?' Quoth the Raven, ' Nevermore.' " Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its... | |
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| Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - American literature - 1853 - 522 pages
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...ftф auf bie 33üfi' ber ^aííaé, auf bie £lжr gefteííet ^er — рф unb gar %'фгё mehr. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,...name is on the night's Plutonian shore !" Quoth the Raven, " Nevermore !" Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its... | |
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