One of the phantasmagoric conceptions of my friend, partaking not so rigidly of the spirit of abstraction, may be sha
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V. But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never
I well remember that suggestions arising from this ballad led us into a train of thought wherein there became manifes
Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of horror, we partially turned aside the yet un
I had arrived at that well-known portion of the story where Ethelred, the hero of the Trist, having sought in vain fo
"Now hear it?--yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long--long --long--many minutes, many hours, many days, have I
For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed
In the meantime the cat slowly recovered. The socket of the lost eye presented, it is true, a frightful appearance, b
For my own part, I soon found a dislike to it arising within me. This was just the reverse of what I had anticipated;
With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase. It followed my footsteps with a
For a purpose such as this the cellar was well adapted. Its walls were loosely constructed, and had lately been plast
"Gentlemen," I said at last, as the party ascended the steps, "I delight to have allayed your suspicio
North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set
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"It's well for you," she said. "If I go," I said, "I will bring you something."
When I came home to dinner my uncle had not yet been home. Still it was early. I sat staring at the clock for some ti