| 470 páginas
...every now and then breaks in as from an uncontrollable impulse of dread, the burden of the whole — " For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted." First he takes you to the door, shows you... | |
| Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1896 - 312 páginas
...kept aloof and daring poacher ; In spite of gaps that through the fences round Invited the encroacher. for over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper to the ear, The place is Haunted. But space fails me, and I must rename the... | |
| 1849 - 606 páginas
...ruined, desolate, forlorn, and savage ; Ifo hand or foot within that precinct came To rectify or ravage. For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted !" HOOD. At the end of this bye lane we arrive... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 páginas
...made the very frame of nature quiver ; And every thrilling nerve and fibre feel So ague-like a shiver. For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted ! If but a rat had lingered in the house,... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 páginas
...ruin'd, desolate, forlorn, and savage : No hand or foot within the precinct came To rectify or ravage. For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear The place is haunted ! PAET n. 10 O, very gloomy is the House... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 páginas
...crooked turn, or on the landing, The straining eyeball was prepared to see Some apparition standing. For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted ! Yet no portentous shape the sight amazed... | |
| 1846 - 534 páginas
...aloof, and daring Poacher, In spite of gaps, that through the fences round Invited the encroacher. ' For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted ; And said, as plain as whisper in mine ear, The place is haunted.' Vol. i. pp. 43, et seq. The whole poem... | |
| 1847 - 432 páginas
...the noonday sun. The very birds, methought, knew the story of the place, and kept aloof with dread: "For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A. sense of mystery the spirit daunted." Having thoroughly examined the place, I remounted my mule ; and after proceeding through the rank and... | |
| 1848 - 660 páginas
...beckoned his patient to follow. He took him into a large room, lighted with a dim uncertain twilight. "And over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted." When they had entered, the doctor locked... | |
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