| Nathan Davis - 1862 - 440 páginas
...then prevented the light of the moon from entering the chamber. " O'er all there hung n shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted." But the cloud floated by, and the stream of light which immediately followed enabled me to ascertain... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1862 - 522 páginas
...hardly veiled the tapestry at all, Or portrait frowning grimly. O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in tho ear, The place is haunted ! THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS " Drowned ! drowned ! " — HAMLET. ONE more unfortunate,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1863 - 626 páginas
...on the old heraldic banner, Had kept its crimson unimpaired by time In such a wondrous manner ! And over all there hung a cloud of fear ; A sense of mystery...plain as whisper in the ear, " The place is haunted ! " ' Hood's novel of ' Tylney Hall ' is worth reading, and will be read read when our present popular... | |
| Anonymous - 1863 - 602 páginas
...on the old heraldic banner, Had kept its crimson unimpaired by timo In such a wondrous manner ! And over all there hung a cloud of fear ; A sense of mystery...plain as whisper in the ear, " The place is haunted ! " Hood's novel of ' Tylney Hall ' is worth reading, and will be read when our present popular sensation... | |
| James Payn - 1864 - 342 páginas
...three, and even Gilmore, who accompanied us, was affected by them. " O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, This place is worse than haunted." The library was the first room we entered, which, even in the palmiest... | |
| 418 páginas
...home of the departed mortal, Ne'er look'd so gloomy as that ghostly hall, With its deserted portal. " For over all there hung a cloud of fear — A sense...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted ! " "But perhaps, of all rhymed poems, Hood's " Bridge of Sighs" is the most ingenious and remarkable,... | |
| London metrop. tabernacle - 1871 - 584 páginas
...signs of life, all presented a scene of dreary desolation — " O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted." Inhabitants here — in this dreary haunt of excommunicated spirits ? Yes, many, although their voices... | |
| William P. Nimmo - 1866 - 542 páginas
...Turningvort, to supply us with cork substitutes of so awful and mysterious a power ! HG BELL. CHAPTEE L " For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted ! " Hooix. " BUT if the house is so comfortable, and suits you so well, why are you leaving it ?" I... | |
| 1882 - 972 páginas
...had richly furnish'd With pictures, cabinets of ancient date, And earvings gilt and burnish'd. ' And over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery...plain as whisper in the ear — The place is Haunted ! ' Was that what you heard at your Guildford entertainment ? " " Yes, that was it — and a great... | |
| 1866 - 908 páginas
...gloomily " uncanny " than the blackest morass on Dartmoor :— " O'er all thoro hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted; And said,...whisper in the ear— « ' The place is haunted.' " After all, whatever may have been the iniquity of "ce monstrc Pitt" in confining his victims under... | |
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