EN IT Silence – a Fable ‘Eudosin d’orheon korhuphai te kai pharhagges’‘Prhones te kai charhadrhai.’ ALCMAN. (60 (10),646.) The mountain pinnacles slumber; valleys, crags and caves are silent. “LISTEN to me,” said the Demon as he placed his hand upon my head. “The region of which I speak is a dreary region in Libya, […]
EN IT A TALE OF JERUSALEM Intonsos rigidam in frontem ascendere canosPassus erat–Lucan A bristly bore.–Translation “LET us hurry to the walls,” said Abel-Phittim to Buzi-Ben-Levi and Simeon the Pharisee, on the tenth day of the month Thammuz, in the year of the world three thousand nine hundred and forty-one–“let us hasten to the […]
EN IT The Imp of the Perverse 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. […]
EN IT Loss of Breath:A Tale Neither In nor Out of “Blackwood” O breathe not, &c. — 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 ceaseless vigilance of an enemy. Salmanezer, as we have it in the […]
EN IT THOU ART THE MAN I WILL now play the Oedipus to the Rattleborough enigma. I will expound to you- as I alone can- the secret of the enginery that effected the Rattleborough miracle- the one, the true, the admitted, the undisputed, the indisputable miracle, which put a definite end to infidelity among […]
EN IT The Sphinx DURING the dread reign of the Cholera in New York, I had accepted the invitation of a relative to spend a fortnight with him in the retirement of his cottage ornee on the banks of the Hudson. We had here around us all the ordinary means of summer amusement; and […]
EN IT The Spectacles MANY years ago, it was the fashion to ridicule the idea of “love at first sight;” but those who think, not less than those who feel deeply, have always advocated its existence. Modern discoveries, indeed, in what may be termed ethical magnetism or magnetoesthetics, render it probable that the most […]
EN IT THE COLLOQUY OF MONOS AND UNA Μελλοντα ταυτα Sophocles—Antig : These things are in the future. 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 himself resolved for me the secret. Una. Death! […]
EN IT THE TELL-TALE HEART True! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard […]
EN IT A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTRÖM 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 Glanvill. We had now reached the summit of […]
