Landor's Cottage

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Besides all this, the lawn's velvet was exquisitely spotted with sheep—a considerable flock of which roamed about the vale, in company with three tamed deer, and a vast number of brilliantly—plumed ducks. I know not how it is, but this peculiar expression of the eye, wreathing itself occasionally into the lips, is the most powerful, if not absolutely the sole spell, which rivets my interest in woman. The road, after passing the gate, seemed to lie upon a natural ledge, sloping gradually down along the face of the north–eastern cliffs. Its banks, of the emerald grass already described, rounded, rather than sloped, off into the clear heaven below; and so clear was this heaven, so perfectly, at times, did it reflect all objects above it, that where the true bank ended and where the mimic one commenced, it was a point of no little difficulty to determine.

The artist has explained: ‘I have tried to make (my) text from pre-fabricated textual elements, and through a kind of ready-made rhetorical style – somewhat flat and rigid – with the hope that by means of a stress on grammatical and rhetorical “rigor” I might erect a hollow structure in the shape of a novel out of sentences of maximum structural integrity’ (quoted in Rodney Graham, 1988, p. El destino por alcanzar es una aldea, pero una mal y encaminada búsqueda hace que el protagonista se desvíe y llegue a un curioso y frondoso valle; bellamente decorado bajo unos peculiares parámetros, cual jardín del Edén. The pillars of the piazza were enwreathed in jasmine and sweet honeysuckle; while from the angle formed by the main structure and its west wing, in front, sprang a grape–vine of unexampled luxuriance. It was clear that I had wandered from the road to the village, and I had thus good traveller's excuse to open the gate before me, and inquire my way, at all events; so, without more ado, I proceeded. As regards vegetation, as well as in respect to every thing else, the scene softened and sloped to the south.The walls were prepared with a French paper of great delicacy, a silver ground, with a faint green cord running zig-zag throughout.

The last sentence of Landor's Cottage says it all, and I don't believe it to be a spoiler: " It is not the purpose of this work to do more than give, in detail, a picture of Mr.He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. El cottage de Landor" está basado en la descripción de la localidad de Fordham, donde Poe había residió con su esposa Virginia Clemm. Its two general directions, as I have said, were first from west to east, and then from north to south. Nothing of the fence kind was observable elsewhere; for nowhere else was an artificial enclosure needed: - any stray sheep, for example, which should attempt to make its way out of the vale by means of the ravine, would find its progress arrested, after a few yards' advance, by the precipitous ledge of rock over which tumbled the cascade that had arrested my attention as I first drew near the domain.