 But the Raven still beguiling All my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in Front of bird and bust and door ; Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking What this ominous bird of yore —...  Little Classics - Sida 149redigerad av - 1875Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 sidor
...the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore — What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt,...ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore!" 13. This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl, whose fiery eyes now burned... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1866 - 332 sidor
...the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore — What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking " Never more." This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes... | |
 | Gems - 1866 - 168 sidor
...the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Q Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore — What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore, Meant in croaking " Never more." This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1866 - 200 sidor
...the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore — What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking " Nevermoru." Thus I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 758 sidor
...the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this +ominous bird of +yore — What this grim, ungainly, "'"ghastly, +gaunt,...ominous bird of yore Meant, in croaking " Nevermore." 13. This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 sidor
...the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thiukiug what this ominous bird of yore— What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking—"Nevermore!" XIII. This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl,... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 sidor
...the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore— What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt,...syllable expressing To the fowl, whose fiery eyes now burn'd into my bosom's core. This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's... | |
 | 1868 - 574 sidor
...or she happens to be reading. Sitting in the calm retirement of my own arm-chair on Whit• Monday, "engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing to...whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core"— I allude to the pipe of bird's-eye to which poverty has reduced me— having in vain tried to get my... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 sidor
...the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore — What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt,...ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking, " Nevermore." Thus I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl, whose fiery eyes now burned... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 sidor
...the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore — What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt,...core ; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet... | |
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