The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and miscellaniesAMS Press, 1979 |
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Page 115
... length comparatively say six feet long - and whose cir- cumference at base shall at least equal the length of the strip . Let this latter be rolled upon the cone near the base , edge to edge , as above described ; then , still keeping ...
... length comparatively say six feet long - and whose cir- cumference at base shall at least equal the length of the strip . Let this latter be rolled upon the cone near the base , edge to edge , as above described ; then , still keeping ...
Page 241
... length . To say , then , that two syllables , placed independently of any other syllable , are short , is merely to say that they have no positive length , or enunciation - in other words that they are no syllables -that they do not ...
... length . To say , then , that two syllables , placed independently of any other syllable , are short , is merely to say that they have no positive length , or enunciation - in other words that they are no syllables -that they do not ...
Page 245
... length which it will not naturally bear . We are called on to sacrifice either the proper length of the syllable as demanded by its position as a mem- ber of a spondee , or the customary accentuation of the word in conversation . There ...
... length which it will not naturally bear . We are called on to sacrifice either the proper length of the syllable as demanded by its position as a mem- ber of a spondee , or the customary accentuation of the word in conversation . There ...
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Maelzels ChessPlayer | 6 |
Preface and Introduction to the Conchologists | 95 |
The Philosophy of Furniture | 101 |
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