 | American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...grated casement — Oh, what a tale they told of fear intense, Of horror and amazement! " What humin creature in the dead of night Had coursed like hunted...Across the sunbeam, with a sudden gloom, A ghostly shaduw flitted." These .ire but portions of a sketch which, in a few masterly pages, gives us more... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...to the grated casement — Oh what a tale they told of fear intense, Of horror and amazement f What human creature in the dead of night Had coursed like...wall, But painted on the air so very dimly, It hardly veiled the tapestry at all, Or portrait frowning grimly. O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...to the grated casement — Oh what a tale they told of fear intense, Of horror and amazement ! What human creature in the dead of night Had coursed like...wall, But painted on the air so very dimly, It hardly veiled the tapestry at all, Or portrait frowning grimly. O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...to the grated casement — Oh what a tale they told of fear intense, Of horror and amazement ! What human creature in the dead of night „ Had coursed...wall, But painted on the air so very dimly, It hardly veiled the tapestry at all, Or portrait frowning grimly. O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1846 - 730 pages
...to the grated casement — Oh, what a tale they told of fear intense, Of horror and amazement! What human creature in the dead of night Had coursed like...sunbeam, with a sudden gloom, A ghostly shadow flitted !" 486 The Genius of Thomas Hood. 487 The " Plea of the Midsummer Fairies," a poem that ought to be... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...grated casement — Oh, what a tale they told of fear intense, Of horror and amazement ! " What humin creature in the dead of night Had coursed like hunted hare that cruel distance T Had sought the door, the window in his flight, Striving for dear existence ? " What shrieking Spirit... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 430 pages
...had slowly rotted : The floor alone retained the trace of guilt, Those boards obscurely spotted. What human creature in the dead of night Had coursed like...wall, But painted on the air so very dimly, It hardly veiled the tapestry at all, Or portrait frowning grimly. O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 424 pages
...doubles to the grated casement— Oh what a tale they told of fear intense, Of horror and amazement! What human creature in the dead of night Had coursed like hunted hare that cruel distance I Had sought the door, the window in his flight, Striving for dear existence ? What shrieking spirit... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1851 - 430 pages
...to the grated casement—- Oh what a tale they told of fear intense, Of horror and amazement ! What human creature in the dead of night Had coursed like...shrieking spirit in that bloody room Its mortal frame had violently'quitted? — Across the sunbeam, with a sudden gloom, A ghostly shadow flitted. Across the... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1854 - 424 pages
...to the grated casement — Oh what a tale they told of fear intense, Of horror and amazement ! What human creature in the dead of night Had coursed like...existence ? What shrieking Spirit in that bloody room Ita mortal frame had violently quitted ? — Across the sunbeam, with a sudden gloom, A ghostly Shadow... | |
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Oh what a tale they told of fear intense, Of horror and amazement ! What human creature in the dead of night Had coursed like hunted hare that cruel distance ? Had sought the door, the window in his flight, Striving for dear existence ? What shrieking... 
