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Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes . Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart , Vulture , whose wings are dull realities ? How should he love thee ? or how deem thee wise ? Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering To ...
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes . Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart , Vulture , whose wings are dull realities ? How should he love thee ? or how deem thee wise ? Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering To ...
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And then I peered into the large eyes of Ligeia . For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique . It might have been , too , that in these eyes of my beloved lay the secret to which Lord Verulam alludes . They were , I must believe ...
And then I peered into the large eyes of Ligeia . For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique . It might have been , too , that in these eyes of my beloved lay the secret to which Lord Verulam alludes . They were , I must believe ...
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passion I could form no estimate , save by the miraculous expansion of those eyes which at once so delighted and appalled me — by the almost magical melody , modulation , distinctness , and placidity of her very low voice — and by the ...
passion I could form no estimate , save by the miraculous expansion of those eyes which at once so delighted and appalled me — by the almost magical melody , modulation , distinctness , and placidity of her very low voice — and by the ...
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| Title | American Literature Survey: The American romantics, 1800-1860 Volume 2 of American Literature Survey, Milton R. Stern Viking portable library |
| Editors | Milton R. Stern, Seymour L. Gross |
| Compiled by | Seymour L. Gross |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Viking Press, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Oct 2007 |
| ISBN | 0670018880, 9780670018888 |
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