...the way contributed, I know not how, to heighten the vague sentiments of which I have already spoken. While the objects around me - while the carvings of...floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which raided as I strode, were but matters to which, or to such as which, I had been accustomed from my infancy...

...his friend Roderick Usher and finds himself strangely disturbed by the once familiar surroundings: "the carvings of the ceilings, the sombre tapestries...phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode." 43 Similarly in "Ligeia," the word first appears in a description of the bizarre chamber filled with...

...fits Poe's story perfectly. The house evokes the feeling of the familiar and the unfamiliar at once: While the objects around me — while the carvings...hesitated not to acknowledge how familiar was all this — I still wondered to find how unfamiliar were the fancies which ordinary images were stirring...

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...the way contributed, I know not how, to heighten the vague sentiments of which I have already spoken. While the objects around me — while the carvings...hesitated not to acknowledge how familiar was all this - 1 still wondered to find how unfamiliar were the fancies which ordinary images were stirring...

...his friend Roderick Usher and finds himself strangely disturbed by the once familiar surroundings: 'the carvings of the ceilings, the sombre tapestries...phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode' (Poe: 1978, 2, 400). Similarly in Ligeia (1838), the word first appears in a description of the bizarre...

...the way contributed, I know not how, to heighten the vague sentiments of which I have already spoken. While the objects around me — while the carvings...ceilings, the sombre tapestries of the walls, the ebon3 blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode,...

...'the carvings of the ceilings, the J о о о sombrе tapestries of the walls, the ebon blackness ot the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode' (Poe: 1978, 2, 400). Similarly in Ligeia (1838), the word first appears in a description of the bizarre...

...the way contributed, I know not how, to heighten the vague sentiments of which I have already spoken. While the objects around me - while the carvings of...hesitated not to acknowledge how familiar was all this - I still wondered to find how unfamiliar were the fancies which ordinary images were stirring...

...the way contributed, I know not how, to heighten the vague sentiments of which I have already spoken. While the objects around me — while the carvings...hesitated not to acknowledge how familiar was all this — I still wondered to find how unfamiliar were the fancies which ordinary images were stirring...