| Alice Kimberly, Cleo Coyle - 2006 - 276 páginas
...up-and-up or pegging me for a sucker." Now you 're speaking my language! CHAPTER 14 Quibble Me This Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak.../Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore — —Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven," 1845 "IT IS HEREBY proposed that the Quinidicott Business... | |
| David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim - 2007 - 392 páginas
...the most instantly recognizable verses in American literature: Once upon a midnight dreary, while 1 pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious...rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber doorOnly this, and nothing more." The poem, one of Poe's most well-known... | |
| Mark David Futato - 241 páginas
...in your estimation, and who is a "skillful poet"? Which, if any, of the following do you appreciate? Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ""Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my... | |
| Marshall Wall - 2007 - 334 páginas
...posed in his dying moments? Or was he slipping into insanity? Here are the first and last stanzas: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently raffing, raffing at my chamber door. "Tis some visitor, 'I muttered, "faffing at my... | |
| Thomas Streissguth - 2007 - 114 páginas
...of a long-lost love. He began to read the first stanza of the poem to the entire staff of Graham's. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten loreWhile I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping... | |
| Richard Lederer - 2007 - 118 páginas
...with but one inning left to play. 8. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. Old Time is still a-flying. 9. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, — 10. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near 11. They also serve... | |
| Lee Hunt - 2008 - 372 páginas
...knocked again. The knock was followed by a long silence and then the muffled sound of a man's voice. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...rapping at my chamber door. " 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing more." Kate smiled and cleared her... | |
| Ann M. Feldman - 2009 - 238 páginas
...while I pondered, weak and weary O'er the budget and its problems, abstruse, arcane and yet a bore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came...tapping As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my office door. "'T is some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my office door — Only this and nothing... | |
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