Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis... The Living Authors of America: 1st ser - Página 128por Thomas Powell - 1850 - 365 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Patrick D. Miller - 2003 - 459 páginas
...therefore, somehow at the center of this psalm. And should a Bible reader at some midnight dreary, pondering "weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore . . ."— should some such Bible reader ask whether the Lord might forget to feed those tiny birds,... | |
| Bill Sherk - 2004 - 312 páginas
...that bird might remind you of Edgar Alan Poe's poetic masterpiece "The Raven," which begins thusly: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak...door. ""Pis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — "Only this and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December... | |
| Princeton Review (Firm) - 2004 - 204 páginas
...by naming their football team after him. Here is the first stanza of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven": Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more." Which... | |
| Tak-hung Leo Chan - 2004 - 304 páginas
...which the entire poem rhymes is extremely difficult to imitate in translation. Take these two verses: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " 'T'is some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more." ***... | |
| Vivian R. Pollak - 2004 - 312 páginas
...one need only think of the hypnotic alliteration and rhythms of Poe's extremely popular "The Raven." Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door — "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more."18... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 2009 - 580 páginas
...reigns upright, I have wandered home but newly From this ultimate dim Thule. [1844-1849] THE RAVEN Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door — " Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more." Ah,... | |
| Bill Sherk - 2004 - 312 páginas
...that bird might remind you of Edgar Alan Poe's poetic masterpiece "The Raven," which begins thusly: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak...some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — "Only this and nothing more." Ah,... | |
| Mark Axelrod - 2004 - 200 páginas
...the United States by advocating the same economic philosophy, thus confirming Graham's genius. 25. "Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak...nodded nearly napping suddenly there came a tapping, of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door." The truth is, the tapping at the chamber door... | |
| Charles Harrington Elster - 2004 - 452 páginas
...pellets drumming against the window and thought of the beginning of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven": While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came...some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. The Twain Shall Meet 57 "Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and... | |
| Jeffrey Wainwright - 2004 - 248 páginas
...alliteration, rhyme, repetition and emphatic metres. In The Raven' he employs an eight-stress trochaic line: While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came...some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door However, we can see that these very long lines actually have a decided break in the middle: As of some... | |
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