| Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 páginas
...turned, and up its slender thread Ran with a nimble terror. *' * * 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, Prophetic hints that tilled the soul with dread, But through one gloomy entrance pointing mostly, The... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - 1866 - 484 páginas
...detail, because the imagination of man is more powerful than art itself :— " 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." A great defect of Anne RadclinVs fictions is not their tediousness... | |
| 1867 - 526 páginas
...Turningvort, to supply us with cork substitutes of so awful and mysterious a power I HG BELL. CHAPTER L " For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted ! " Hoon. " Bur if the house is so comfortable, and suits you so well, why are you leaving it ?" I... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1867 - 464 páginas
...made the very frame of Nature quiver ; And ev'ry thrilling nerve and fibre feel So ague-Uke a shiver. For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted ! If but a rat hadlinger'd in the house, To lure the thought into a social channel ! But not a rat... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - 1867 - 542 páginas
...the most tremendous detail, because the imagination of man is more powerful that art itself: — " 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." The great defect of Ann RadclifTe's fictions is not their tediousness... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - 1867 - 550 páginas
...the imagination of man is more powerful that art itself: — " Over all there hung a eloud of fcar, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper to the ear, The place is haunted." The great defect of Ann Radcliffe's fictions is not their tediousness... | |
| 1867 - 520 páginas
...highest pitch : — " O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit haunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted !" We cannot criticise at length the whole of his serious poems, and will only mention the more important... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - 1868 - 562 páginas
...than the most tremendous detail, because the imagination of man is more powerful that art itself: — "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." The great defect of Ann Radcliffe's fictions is not their tediousness... | |
| 1869 - 254 páginas
...the ragged roof the sky shone, barr'd With naked beam and rafter. O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said,...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted ! The flow'r grew wild and rankly as the weed, Roses with thistles struggled for espial, And vagrant... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - 1869 - 558 páginas
...because the imagination of man is more powerful that art itself: — " Over all there hung a elond of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper to the ear, The place is haunted." The great defect of Ann Radcliffe's fictions is not their tediousness... | |
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