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How To Write A Blackwood Article

odaha — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:13:54 +0000

(1850)

"In the name of the prophets- figs!!"

Cry of Turkish fig-peddler.

I PRESUME everybody has heard of me. My name is the Signora Psyche Zenobia. This I know to be a fact. Nobody but my enemies ever calls me Suky Snobbs.

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Metzengerstein

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:08:14 +0000

(1850)

Pestis eram vivus - moriens tua mors ero.

Martin Luther

HORROR and fatality have been stalking abroad in all ages. Why then give a date to this story I have to tell?

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Mesmeric Revelation

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:07:25 +0000

(1850)

WHATEVER doubt may still envelop the rationale of mesmerism, its startling facts are now almost universally admitted. Of these latter, those who doubt, are your mere doubters by profession- an unprofitable and disreputable tribe.

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Mellonta Tauta

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:06:32 +0000

(1850)

TO THE EDITORS OF THE LADY'S BOOK:

I have the honor of sending you, for your magazine, an article which I hope you will be able to comprehend rather more distinctly than I do myself. It is a translation, by my friend, Martin Van Buren Mavis, (sometimes called the "Toughkeepsie Seer") of an odd-looking MS.

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The Masque Of The Red Death

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:04:39 +0000

(1842)

THE "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal --the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.

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The Man That Was Used Up - A Tale Of The Late Bugaboo And Kickapoo Campaign

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:03:40 +0000

(1850)

Pleurez, pleurez, mes yeux, et fondez vous en eau!

La moitie de ma vie a mis l'autre au tombeau.

CORNEILLE

I CANNOT just now remember when or where I first made the acquaintance of that truly fine-looking fellow, Brevet ...

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The Man Of The Crowd

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:00:09 +0000

(1850)

The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways; nor are the models that we frame any way commensurate to the vastness, profundity, and unsearchableness of His works, which have a depth in them greater than the well of Democritus.

Joseph ...

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Loss Of Breath - A Tale Neither In Nor Out Of „Blackwood“

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:58:53 +0000

(1850)

O Breathe not, etc.

Moore's Melodies

THE MOST notorious ill-fortune must in the end yield to the untiring courage of philosophy- as the most stubborn city to the ...

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Literary Life Of Thingum Bob, Esq. - Late Editor Of The Goosetherumfoodle - By Himself

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:57:39 +0000

(1850)

I AM now growing in years, and- since I understand that Shakespeare and Mr. Emmons are deceased- it is not impossible that I may even die. It has occurred to me, therefore, that I may as well retire from the field of Letters and repose upon my laurels.

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Lionizing

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:56:30 +0000

(1850)

-all people went

Upon their ten toes in wild wondernment.

Bishop Hall's Satires.

I AM, that is to say I was, a great man, but I am neither the author of Junius nor the man in the mask, for my name, I ...

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Ligeia

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:51:34 +0000

(1838)

And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness.

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The Landscape Garden

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:46:47 +0000

(1850)

The garden like a lady fair was cut

That lay as if she slumbered in delight,

And to the open skies her eyes did shut;

The azure fields of heaven were 'sembled right

In a large round ...

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Landor’s Cottage - A Pendant To „The Domain Of Arnheim“

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:45:50 +0000

(1850)

DURING A pedestrian trip last summer, through one or two of the river counties of New York, I found myself, as the day declined, somewhat embarrassed about the road I was pursuing.

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King Pest - A Tale Containing An Allegory

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:44:55 +0000

(1835)

The gods do bear and will allow in kings

The things which they abhor in rascal routes.

Buckhurst's Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex.

ABOUT twelve o'clock, one night in the month of October, and during the ...

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The Island Of The Fay

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:43:56 +0000

(1850)

Nullus enim locus sine genio est.

SERVIUS

"LA MUSIQUE," says Marmontel, in those "Contes Moraux"* which in all our translations, we have insisted upon calling "Moral Tales," as if in mockery of their spirit- "la musique est le ...

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The Imp Of The Perverse

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:42:36 +0000

(1850)

IN THE consideration of the faculties and impulses- of the prima mobilia of the human soul, the phrenologists have failed to make room for a propensity which, although obviously existing as a radical, primitive, irreducible sentiment, has been equally overlooked by all the moralists who have preceded them.

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Hop-Frog Or The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:41:22 +0000

(1850)

I NEVER knew anyone so keenly alive to a joke as the king was. He seemed to live only for joking. To tell a good story of the joke kind, and to tell it well, was the surest road to his favor. Thus it happened that his seven ministers were all noted for their accomplishments as jokers.

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Four Beasts In One- The Homo-Cameleopard

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:40:32 +0000

(1850)

Chacun a ses vertus.

CREBILLON'S Xerxes.

ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES is very generally looked upon as the Gog of the prophet Ezekiel. This honor is, however, more properly attributable to Cambyses, the son of Cyrus.

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The Fall Of The House Of Usher

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:39:37 +0000

(1839)

Son coeur est un luth suspendu;

Sitot qu’on le touche il resonne.

De Beranger.

DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the ...

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The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:38:41 +0000

(1845)

OF course I shall not pretend to consider it any matter for wonder, that the extraordinary case of M. Valdemar has excited discussion. It would have been a miracle had it not-especially under the circumstances.

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Eleonora

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:37:38 +0000

(1850)

Sub conservatione formae specificae salva anima.

RAYMOND LULLY.

I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the ...

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The Duc De l’Omlette

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:36:33 +0000

KEATS fell by a criticism. Who was it died of "The Andromache"?* Ignoble souls!- De L’Omelette perished of an ortolan. L’histoire en est breve.

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The Domain Of Arnheim

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:35:25 +0000

The garden like a lady fair was cut,

That lay as if she slumbered in delight,

And to the open skies her eyes did shut.

The azure fields of Heaven were 'sembled right

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Diddling - Considered As One Of The Exact Sciences

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:34:04 +0000

SINCE the world began there have been two Jeremys. The one wrote a Jeremiad about usury, and was called Jeremy Bentham. He has been much admired by Mr. John Neal, and was a great man in a small way.

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The Devil In The Belfry

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:32:56 +0000

EVERYBODY knows, in a general way, that the finest place in the world is- or, alas, was- the Dutch borough of Vondervotteimittiss.

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A Descent Into The Maelstrom

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:31:46 +0000

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The Conversation Of Eiros And Charmion

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:29:29 +0000

EIROS. Why do you call me Eiros?

CHARMION. So henceforth will you always be called. You must forget, too, my earthly name, and speak to me as Charmion.

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The Colloquy Of Monos And Una

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:34:09 +0000

UNA. "Born again?"

MONOS. Yes, fairest and best beloved Una, "born again." These were the words upon whose mystical meaning I had so long pondered, rejecting the explanations of the priesthood, until Death itself resolved for me the secret.

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The Cask Of Amontillado

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:24:07 +0000

(1846)

THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat.

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The Business Man

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:23:17 +0000

(1850)

Method is the soul of business.

OLD SAYING.

I AM a business man. I am a methodical man. Method is the thing, after all.

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Bon-Bon

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:22:10 +0000

(1850)

Quand un bon vin meuble mon estomac

Je suis plus savant que Balzac-

Plus sage que Pibrac;

Mon brass seul faisant l'attaque

De la nation Coseaque,

La mettroit au sac;

De Charon je passerois le ...

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The Black Cat

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:21:06 +0000

(1843)

FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not --and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.

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Berenice

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:20:04 +0000

(1835)

Dicebant mihi sodales, si sepulchrum amicae visitarem,

curas meas aliquantulum fore levatas.

--Ebn Zaiat.

MISERY is manifold.

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The Balloon-Hoax

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:18:42 +0000

(1850)

ASTOUNDING NEWS BY EXPRESS, VIA NORFOLK!- The Atlantic Crossed in Three Days!- Signal Triumph of Mr. Monck Mason's Flying Machine!- Arrival at Sullivan's Island, near Charlestown, S. C., of Mr. Mason, Mr. Robert Holland, Mr. Henson, Mr.

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The Assignation

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:17:23 +0000

(1834)

(The Visionary)

Stay for me there! I will not fail

To meet thee in that hollow vale.

[Exequy on the death of his wife, by Henry King, Bishop of Chichester.]

ILL-FATED and mysterious man!

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The Angel Of The Odd- An Extravaganza

odaha — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:16:08 +0000

(1850)

IT WAS a chilly November afternoon.

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