... extraordinary dilapidation. No portion of the masonry had fallen; and there appeared to be a wild inconsistency between its still perfect adaptation of parts, and the crumbling condition of the individual stones. In this there was much that reminded... Gentleman's Magazine - Стр. 146редактор(ы): - 1839Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1927 - Страниц: 570
...crumbling condition of the individual stones. In this there was much that reminded me of the spacious totality of old woodwork which has rotted for long...little token of instability. Perhaps the eye of a scrutinising observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1975 - Страниц: 1042
...crumbling condition of the individual stones. In this there was much that reminded me of the specious in the contemplation of the certainly glowing yet...spirit of abstraction, may he shadowed forth, although instahility. Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have discovered a harely perceptible... | |
| Anthony Vidler - 1994 - Страниц: 286
...vault, to this once-living abode; its fabric was reminiscent of "old wood-work which has rotted for some years in some neglected vault, with no disturbance from the breath of the external air."3 The house was then a crypt, predestined to be buried in its turn, an event prefigured in the... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1993 - Страниц: 320
...crumbling condition of the individual stones. In this there was much that reminded me of the specious totality of old woodwork which has rotted for long...little token of instability. Perhaps the eye of a scrutinising observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the... | |
| Rictor Norton - 2005 - Страниц: 788
...crumbling condition of the individual stones. In this there was much that reminded me of the specious totality of old woodwork which has rotted for long...little token of instability. Perhaps the eye of a scrutinising observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 2001 - Страниц: 194
...crumbling condition of the individual stones. In this there was much that reminded me of the specious totality of old woodwork which has rotted for long...little token of instability. Perhaps the eye of a scrutinising observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the... | |
| David Moore - 2001 - Страниц: 192
...a fine tangled web-work from the eaves. ... In this there was much that reminded me of the specious totality of old wood-work which has rotted for long...disturbance from the breath of the external air." So, if the Ushers had taken Poe's pest control advice rather than dancing to his dramatic tune maybe... | |
| Kevin J. Hayes - 2002 - Страниц: 290
...in two other respects. Like the "undisturbed" tale, the house reminds the narrator of "the specious totality of old wood-work which has rotted for long...no disturbance from the breath of the external air" (P&T, 320). And because the narrator, in crossing the causeway, is about to enter this closed universe... | |
| David Herman - 2004 - Страниц: 500
...nondescription, of how Usher's house might appear to the gaze of a merely hypothetical observer: 7. Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have...which, extending from the roof of the building in the front, made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction, until it became lost in the sullen waters... | |
| K. H. Anthol - 2003 - Страниц: 344
...crumbling condition of the individual stones. In this there was much that reminded me of the specious totality of old wood-work which has rotted for long...little token of instability. Perhaps the eye of a scrutinising observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the... | |
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