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Manuscript Found in a Bottle QUOTES

Manuscript Found in a Bottle QUOTES

1 " A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , Manuscript Found in a Bottle

2 " The ship and all in it are imbued with the spirit of Eld. The crew glide to and fro like the ghosts of buried centuries; their eyes have an eager and uneasy meaning; and when their fingers fall athwart my path in the wild glare of the battle-lanterns, I feel as I have never felt before, although I have been all my life a dealer in antiquities, and have imbibed the shadows of fallen columns at Balbec, and Tadmor, and Persepolis, until my very soul has become a ruin. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , Manuscript Found in a Bottle

3 " All in the immediate vicinity of the ship, is the blackness of eternal night, and a chaos of foamless water; but, about a league on either side of us, may be seen, indistinctly and at intervals, stupendous ramparts of ice, towering away into the desolate sky, and looking like the walls of the universe. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , Manuscript Found in a Bottle

4 " We are surely doomed to hover continually upon the brink of Eternity, without taking the final plunge into the abyss. From billows a thousand times more stupendous than any I have ever seen, we glide away with the facility of the arrowy seagull; and the colossal waters rear their heads above us like demons of the deep, but like demons confined to simple threats and forbidden to destroy. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , Manuscript Found in a Bottle

5 " All around were horror, and thick gloom, and a black sweltering desert of ebony. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , Manuscript Found in a Bottle

6 " As I imagined, the ship proves to be in a current; if that appellation can properly be given to a tide, which, howling and shrieking by the white ice, thunders on to the southward with a velocity like the headlong dashing of a cataract. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , Manuscript Found in a Bottle

7 " At times we gasped for breath at an elevation beyond the albatross---at times became dizzy with the velocity of our descent into some watery hell, where the air grew stagnant, and no sound disturbed the slumbers of the kraken. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , Manuscript Found in a Bottle

8 " About noon, as nearly as we could guess, our attention was again arrested by the appearance of the sun. It gave out no light, properly so called, but a dull and sudden glow without reflection, as if all its rays were polarized. Just before sinking within the turgid sea, its central fires suddenly went out, as if hurriedly extinguished by some unaccountable power. It was a dim, silver-like rim, alone, as it rushed down the unfathomable ocean. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , Manuscript Found in a Bottle

9 " For a moment of intense terror she paused upon the giddy pinnacle, as if in contemplation of her own sublimity, then trembled and tottered, and---came down. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , Manuscript Found in a Bottle