 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1839 - 368 pages
...year, when the clouds hang oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country ; and...building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spiiit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because... | |
 | 1839 - 372 pages
...year, when the cloude hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country ; and...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 - 1840 - 686 pages
...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...insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 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 gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which... | |
 | 1850 - 766 pages
...year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing along on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country ; and...insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say, insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasureable, because poetic, sentiment, with... | |
 | 1850 - 762 pages
...year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing along on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country ; and...insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say, insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasureable, because poetic, sentiment with which... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 pages
...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...insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which... | |
 | 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 gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable ; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurablej because poetic, sentiment^ with which... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 578 pages
...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...insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable ; for the feeling was u/irelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1874 - 644 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
