The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and miscellaniesAMS Press, 1979 |
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Page 151
... mere children they sported together ; in boyhood and girlhood they read from the same books , sang the same songs , or roamed , hand in hand , through the grounds of the conjoining estates . The result was not merely natural or merely ...
... mere children they sported together ; in boyhood and girlhood they read from the same books , sang the same songs , or roamed , hand in hand , through the grounds of the conjoining estates . The result was not merely natural or merely ...
Page 241
... merely to say that they have no positive length , or enunciation - in other words that they are no syllables -that they do not exist at all . And if , persisting , we add anything about their equal- ity , we are merely floundering in ...
... merely to say that they have no positive length , or enunciation - in other words that they are no syllables -that they do not exist at all . And if , persisting , we add anything about their equal- ity , we are merely floundering in ...
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... mere size , abstractly consid- ered there can be nothing in mere bulk , so far as a volume is concerned , which has so continuously elicited admiration from these saturnine pamphlets ! A mountain , to be sure , by the mere sentiment of ...
... mere size , abstractly consid- ered there can be nothing in mere bulk , so far as a volume is concerned , which has so continuously elicited admiration from these saturnine pamphlets ! A mountain , to be sure , by the mere sentiment of ...
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Maelzels ChessPlayer | 6 |
Preface and Introduction to the Conchologists | 95 |
The Philosophy of Furniture | 101 |
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