 | Paul Hamilton Payne - Literature, Modern - 1857 - 614 pages
...now we rushed into the embraces of the cataract, where в chasm threw itself open to receive us. But there arose in our pathway a shrouded human figure, very far larger in its proportions than any dweller among men ; and the hue of the skin of the figure was of the perfect whiteness... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1863 - 460 pages
...now we rushed into the embraees of the eataraet, where a ehasm threw itself open to rereive us. But there arose in our pathway a shrouded human figure, very far larger in its proportions than any dweller among men. And the hue of the skin of the figure was of the perfeet whiteness... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Etching - 1889 - 556 pages
...now we rushed into the embraces of the cataract, where a chasm threw itself open to receive us. But there arose in our pathway a shrouded human figure, very far larger in its proportions than any dweller among men. And the hue of the skin of the figure was of the perfect whiteness... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1898 - 318 pages
...now we rushed into the embraces of the cataract; where a chasm threw itself open to receive us. But there arose in our pathway a shrouded human figure, very far larger in its proportions than any dweller among men. And the hue of the skin of the figure was of the perfect whiteness... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 414 pages
...back there sat a huge sea-gull busily gorging itself with the horrible flesh." A. Gordon Pym 188 " But there arose in our pathway a shrouded human figure, very far larger in its proportions than any dweller among men." Ligeia 192 " Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1908 - 356 pages
...now we rushed into the embraces of the cataract, where a chasm threw itself open to receive us. But there arose in our pathway a shrouded human figure, very far larger in its proportions than any dweller among men. And the hue of the skin of the figure was of the perfect whiteness... | |
 | John Wooster Robertson - 1921 - 472 pages
...now we rushed into the embraces of the cataract, where a chasm threw itself open to receive us. But there arose in our pathway a shrouded human figure, very far larger in its proportions than any dweller among men. And the hue of the skin of the figure was of the perfect whiteness... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1904 - 286 pages
...rushed into the embraces of the cataract, where a chasm threw itself open to re« L_ ceive us. But there arose in our pathway a shrouded human figure, very far larger in its proportions than any dweller among men. And the hue of the skin of the figure was of the perfect whiteness... | |
 | Célestin Pierre Cambiaire - Comparative literature - 1927 - 346 pages
...title itself, Le Sphinx des Glaces, seems to have been suggested by the following lines of Poe : " But there arose in our pathway a shrouded human figure...larger in its proportion than any dweller among men. "a This assertion seems to be confirmed by the words of Jules Verne : " J'avais rêvé d'un animal... | |
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And now we rushed into the embraces of the cataract, where a chasm threw itself open to receive us. But there arose in our pathway a shrouded human figure, very far larger in its proportions than any dweller among men. And the hue of the skin of the figure... 
