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...E VOLUMES Volume Five A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five is a publication ... ...Volume Five A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five is a publication of the Pen... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...f furniture has at length come to be, with us, nearly the sole test of its merit in a decorative point of view—and this test, once established, has le... ...ari- see, who belonged to the sect called The Dashers (that little knot of saints whose manner of dashing and lacerating the feet against the pavement... ... schoolboy account of the genus Sphinx, of the family Crepuscularia of the order Lepidoptera, of the class of In- secta—or insects. The account runs t... ...failed to use it, whenever she could, for the benefit of Hop-Frog. On some grand state occasion—I forgot what—the king determined to have a masquerade... ... And banish the thoughts of day. 105 V olume Five Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Throu... ... too. Its letters, although naturally lying Like the knight Pinto—Mendez Ferdinando— 139 V olume Five Still form a synonym for Truth—Cease trying! ...