The Dream of Eugene Aram: The MurdererC. Tilt, 1831 - 30 páginas |
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... souls tortured on the supernatural racks of sleep are not to be penned — and if in sketching those that belong to blood - guiltiness I have been at all suc- cessful , I owe it mainly to the uninvoked inspira- tion of that terrible dream ...
... souls tortured on the supernatural racks of sleep are not to be penned — and if in sketching those that belong to blood - guiltiness I have been at all suc- cessful , I owe it mainly to the uninvoked inspira- tion of that terrible dream ...
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... with gamesome minds , And souls untouched by sin ; To a level mead they came , and there They drave the wickets in : Pleasantly shone the setting sun Over the town of Lynn . Like sportive deer they cours'd about , And shouted as THE ...
... with gamesome minds , And souls untouched by sin ; To a level mead they came , and there They drave the wickets in : Pleasantly shone the setting sun Over the town of Lynn . Like sportive deer they cours'd about , And shouted as THE ...
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... turn'd it o'er , Nor ever glanc'd aside , For the peace of his soul he read that book In the golden eventide : Much study had made him very lean , And pale , and leaden - ey'd , At last he shut the ponderous tome , With a 20.
... turn'd it o'er , Nor ever glanc'd aside , For the peace of his soul he read that book In the golden eventide : Much study had made him very lean , And pale , and leaden - ey'd , At last he shut the ponderous tome , With a 20.
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... souls Its everlasting stain ! eyes , " And well , " quoth he , " I know , for truth , Their pangs must be extreme , -- Woe , woe , unutterable woe , - Who spill life's sacred stream ! For why ? Methought , last night , I wrought A ...
... souls Its everlasting stain ! eyes , " And well , " quoth he , " I know , for truth , Their pangs must be extreme , -- Woe , woe , unutterable woe , - Who spill life's sacred stream ! For why ? Methought , last night , I wrought A ...
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... soul , I knew , Was at the Devil's price : A dozen times I groan'd ; the dead Had never groan'd but twice ! " And now , from forth the frowning sky , From the Heaven's topmost height , I heard a voice - the awful voice Of the blood ...
... soul , I knew , Was at the Devil's price : A dozen times I groan'd ; the dead Had never groan'd but twice ! " And now , from forth the frowning sky , From the Heaven's topmost height , I heard a voice - the awful voice Of the blood ...
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altogether impro ascer bable and unprecedented beg the hearing blood BRANSTON AND WRIGHT call upon malignity called evidence adduced cell CHARLES TILT Clarke is sug conceive my notice concerted no schemes contradicts every particular criterion which incontestably dead depravity not inferior DREAM OF EUGENE ENGRAVED ON WOOD Epping Hunt Epsom Races EUGENE ARAM Fenchurch Street FLEET STREET four-and-twenty Gardens and Menagerie gle deviation head so unlikely heard hermit hermitage honestly laborious human skeleton immediate inquiry set impertinent or unseasonable incontestably distinguishes India Paper last with Thompson lord lordship's macerated malevolence could entertain ment to engage mighty wind moral obligation totally murder obligation totally perishes oblige some malice Octavo Price probity is lost profligacy precipitately projected no violence reduced to crutches regard of probity satisfy some avarice single and unskilful skeleton Sprite supply some luxury support some indolence THOMAS HOOD thought impertinent titute of friends volumes William Thompson WOOD BY BRANSTON
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Página 21 - He told how murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, — With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about their brain • For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain !
Página 19 - Then leaping on his feet upright, Some moody turns he took; Now up the mead, then down the mead, And past a shady nook : And lo, he saw a little boy That pored...
Página 15 - Farther, my lord : — it is not yet out of living memory that at a little distance from Knaresborough, in a field, part of the manor of the worthy and patriot baronet who does that borough the honour to represent it in parliament, were found, in digging for gravel, not one human skeleton only, but five or six, deposited side by side, with each an urn placed at his head, as your lordship knows was usual in ancient interments.
Página 17 - Like sportive deer they coursed about, And shouted as they ran, — Turning to mirth all things of earth, As only boyhood can...
Página 11 - My lord," began Aram, in that remarkable defence still extant, and still considered as wholly unequalled from the lips of one defending his own cause ; — my lord, I know not whether it is of right, or through some indulgence of your lordship, that I am allowed the liberty, at this bar, and at this time, to attempt a defence ; incapable and uninstructed as I am to speak. Since, while I see BO many eyes upon me.