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" 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 Lawrence Reader and Speaker: A Compilation of Masterpieces in Poetry and ... - Page 341
by Edwin Gordon Lawrence - 1911 - 351 pages
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Sanders' Rhetorical, Or, Union Sixth Reader: Embracing a Full Exposition of ...

Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...Perched upon a bust of Pallas,* just above my chamber-door— Perched, and sat, and nothing more. VIII. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,...ancient raven, wandering from the nightly shore, Tell me w'>at thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian 1 shore?" Quoth the raven,—"Nevermore!" IX. Much...
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McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical ..., Book 6

William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 758 pages
...Perched upon a "'"bust of Pallas just above my chamber door — Perched, and sat, and nothing more. 8. Then this +ebony bird +beguiling my sad fancy into...said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly, grim, and ancient Haven, wandering from the nightly shore, [shore ! " Tell me what thy lordly name is on the night's...
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The American Union Speaker: Containing Standard and Recent Selections in ...

John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pages
...Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door, — Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,...marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that...
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Comstock's Elocution, Enlarged: A System of Vocal Gymnastics Designed for ...

Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 pages
...— Perch'd upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamberdoor — Perched and sat and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,...Plutonian shore ?" Quoth the raven, " Nevermore !" Much I marvell'd this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little...
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The public school speaker and reader, ed. by J.E. Carpenter

Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...Perched above a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door — Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then, this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into...ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore ; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human...
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Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Volume 3

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1869 - 264 pages
...— Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door — Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,...ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore ; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human...
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Wiley's Elocution and Oratory: Giving a Thorough Treatise on the Art of ...

Charles A. Wiley - 1869 - 456 pages
...Perch'd upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber-door — Perch'd, and sat, and nothing more. 8. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,...Night's Plutonian shore ? " Quoth the raven, " Nevermore ! " 9. Much I marvel'd this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning...
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A system of elocution based upon grammatical analysis

William Stewart Ross - 1869 - 452 pages
...bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door ; — Perch'd and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebon bird beguiling, My sad fancy into smiling, By the...name is, on the night's Plutonian shore?" Quoth the Kaven, " Nevermore." And the Raven, sitting lonely On the placid bust, spoke only That one word, —...
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A Manual of Elocution Founded Upon the Philosophy of the Human Voice

M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...— Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door — Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,...Raven wandering from the Nightly shore — Tell me That thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! " Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear...
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Literary Theory and Criticism

Edgar Allan Poe, Leonard Cassuto - 1999 - 228 pages
...above my chamber door. In the two stanzas which follow, the design is more obviously carried out: — Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern derorum of the countenanre it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven thou," I said, "art sure...
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