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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe – Volume 5
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Seinem Schosskinde
Der Phantasie. —Göethe.
19
Sightless – too small to be seen —Legge.
20
I have often noticed a peculiar movement of the fire-flies;
– they will collect in a body and fly off, from a common
centre, into innumerable radii.
21
Therasæa, or Therasea, the island mentioned by Seneca,
which, in a moment, arose from the sea to the eyes of
astonished mariners.
22
Some star which, from the ruin’d roof Of shak’d Olympus,
by mischance, did fall. —Milton.
23
* Voltaire, in speaking of Persepolis, says, “Je connois
bien l’admiration qu’inspirent ces ruines – mais un palais
erigé au pied d’une chaine des rochers sterils – peut il
être un chef d’oevure des arts!” [Voila les arguments de M. Voltaire.]
24
“Oh! the wave” – Ula Degusi is the Turkish appellation;
but, on its own shores, it is called Bahar Loth, or
Almotanah. There were undoubtedly more than two cities
engluphed in the “dead sea.” In the valley of Siddim were
five – Adrah, Zeboin, Zoar, Sodom and Gomorrah. Stephen of
Byzantium mentions eight, and Strabo thirteeen, (engulphed)
– but the last is out of all reason.
It is said, (Tacitus, Strabo, Josephus, Daniel of St. Saba, Nau,
Maundrell, Troilo, D’Arvieux) that after an excessive drought, the vestiges of columns, walls, &c. are seen above the surface. At anyseason, such remains may be discovered by looking down into the transparent lake, and at such distances as would argue the existence of many settlements in the space now usurped by the ‘Asphaltites.’
25
Eyraco – Chaldea.
26
I have often thought I could distinctly hear the sound of
the darkness as it stole over the horizon.
27
Fairies use flowers for their charactery. —Merry Wives of Windsor. [William Shakespeare]
28
In Scripture is this passage – “The sun shall not harm
thee by day, nor the moon by night.” It is perhaps not
generally known that the moon, in Egypt, has the effect of
producing blindness to those who sleep with the face exposed
to its rays, to which circumstance the passage evidently
alludes.
29
The Albatross is said to sleep on the wing.
30
I met with this idea in an old English tale, which I am
now unable to obtain and quote from memory: – “The verie
essence and, as it were, springe-heade, and origine of all
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