Илья Франк,Андрей Бессонов,Эдгар Аллан По

Английский с Эдгаром По. Падение дома Ашеров

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  • Maria Sychevahas quoted8 years ago
    to do wrong for the wrong’s sake only (совершать дурное только лишь ради дурного; wrong – неправильный, ошибочный)
  • viohas quoted3 years ago
    lofty name shall have a fearful fall when, as the rider over his horse, the mortality of Metzengerstein shall triumph over the immortality of Berlifitzing.”
  • viohas quoted3 years ago
    I know not how it was – but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible.
  • viohas quoted3 years ago
    with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium – the bitter lapse into everyday life – the hideous dropping off of the reveller upon opium – the bitter lapse into everyday life – the
  • viohas quoted3 years ago
    I looked around triumphantly, and said to myself – “Here at least, then, my labor has not been in vain.”
  • viohas quoted3 years ago
    At such times, although I longed to destroy it with a blow, I was yet withheld from so doing, partly by a memory of my former crime, but chiefly – let me confess it at once – by absolute dread of the beast.
  • viohas quoted3 years ago
    Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other
  • viohas quoted3 years ago
    Yet, mad am I not – and very surely do I not dream. But tomorrow I die, and today I would unburthen my soul.
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