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Page 423
... sound which Sir Launce- lot had so particularly described . It was , beyond doubt , the coincidence alone which had arrested my attention ; for , amid the rattling of the sashes of the casements , and the ordinary commingled noises of ...
... sound which Sir Launce- lot had so particularly described . It was , beyond doubt , the coincidence alone which had arrested my attention ; for , amid the rattling of the sashes of the casements , and the ordinary commingled noises of ...
Page 436
... sound well . Many a night , just at midnight , when all the world slept , it has welled up from my own bosom ... sound , such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton . I knew that sound well , too . It was the beating of the old man's ...
... sound well . Many a night , just at midnight , when all the world slept , it has welled up from my own bosom ... sound , such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton . I knew that sound well , too . It was the beating of the old man's ...
Page 493
... sound acquires a certain vibratory hum , as if the pine needles in the horizon were the strings of a harp which it swept . All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect , a vibration of the universal ...
... sound acquires a certain vibratory hum , as if the pine needles in the horizon were the strings of a harp which it swept . All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect , a vibration of the universal ...
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