Specimens of Prose Composition ...: Selected by the Instuctors in English A at Harvard CollegeChester Noyes Greenough Ginn, 1906 |
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American ballad beautiful began Bennet Bingley boat Boston BRANDER MATTHEWS Briley called Charles Scribner's Sons cold color dark dull English eyes face feel feet fire floor Forestry Commission forests Franconia Range G. P. Putnam's Sons girls grammar school green ground half Hampshire hand head heart Heart's Desire HENRY DAVID THOREAU Houghton hundred Imam industry John Gilley Jose Jungle land light Little Tapin live look lumber companies ment Messrs Mifflin morning Muhammad never night perhaps permission to reprint Piggy Pennington Presidential Range reservation road ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON romance RUDYARD KIPLING sails Sandy scenery seemed side Stanley Weyman Stevenson street surface sword things THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY THOMAS CARLYLE thought tion Tobin trees turned wall White Mountains whole wind window woods words York young
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208. oldal - 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 shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
208. oldal - I looked upon the scene before me - upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain upon the bleak walls - upon the vacant eyelike windows - upon a few rank sedges - and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees - with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium - the bitter lapse into every-day life - the hideous dropping off of the veil.
21. oldal - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
185. oldal - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, — the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.
209. oldal - ... among considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate, its capacity for sorrowful impression ; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling...
274. oldal - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
208. oldal - 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 shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
209. oldal - ... of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it, I paused to think, what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher...
209. oldal - I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among considerations beyond our depth.
16. oldal - He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant, and merciful towards the absurd; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions, or topics which may irritate; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome.