“ 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. ”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher (1839). copy citation
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
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| Source | The Fall of the House of Usher |
| Topic | fall melancholy country |
| Date | 1839 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/932/932-h/932-h.htm |
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THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER BY EDGAR ALLAN POE Son cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne.
De Béranger. 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. I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible.” source
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER BY EDGAR ALLAN POE Son cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne.
De Béranger. 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. I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible.” source
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