 have been a dream, I scanned more narrowly the real aspect of the building. Its principal feature seemed to be that of an excessive antiquity. The discoloration of ages had been great. Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine, tangled...  American Short Stories - Page 158edited by - 1904 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1839 - 372 pages
...or gas—dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued. Shaking off from my spitit what must have been a dream, I scanned more narrowly the real aspect of the building. Us principal feature seemed to be that of an excessive antiquity. The discoloration of ages had been... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 688 pages
...or gas, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued. Shaking off from my spirit what must have been a dream, I scanned more narrowly the real aspect of the building. Its principal feature teemed to be that of an excessive antiquity. The discoloration of ages had been great. Minute fungi... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1845 - 288 pages
...vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued. Shaking off" from my spirit what must have been a dream, I scanned more narrowly the real...hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves. Yet all this was apart from any extraordinary dilapidation. No portion of the masonry had fallen; and... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1859 - 558 pages
...what must have been a dream, 1 scanned more narrowly the real aspect of the building. Iti princip*' feature seemed to be that of an excessive antiquity,...whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work frjm the eaves. Yet all this was apart from any extraordinary dilapidation. No portion of the masonry... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 578 pages
...mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hucd. Shaking off from my spirit what must have been a dream, I scanned more narrowly the real...hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves. Yet all this was apart from any extraordinary dilapidation. No portion of the masonry had fallen; and... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1874 - 644 pages
...vapour, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued. Shaking off from my spirit what must have been a dream, I scanned more narrowly the real...hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves. Yet all this was apart from any extraordinary dilapidation. No portion of the masonry had fallen, and... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 238 pages
...mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and Iraden-hued. Shaking off from my spirit what must have been a dream, I scanned more narrowly the real...aspect of the building. Its principal feature seemed to bs that of an excessive antiquity. The discoloration of ages had been great. Minute fungi overspread... | |
 | Edmund John Armstrong - 1877 - 330 pages
...closer view, which is done with extraordinary vividness and in a very few words. " The discolouration of ages had been great. Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine R 242 EDGAR ALLAN POE. tangled net-work from the eaves. Yet all this was apart from any extraordinary... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1878 - 450 pages
...mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leadenhued. Shaking off from my spirit what must have been a dream, I scanned more narrowly the real...hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves. Yet all this was apart from any extraordinary dilapidation. No portion of the masonry had fallen ;... | |
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