 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1861 - 394 pages
...ties between that board and Man Had long ago been broken. 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 ! PART III. 'Tis hard for human actions to account, Whether from reason... | |
 | Nathan Davis - Africa, North - 1862 - 438 pages
...prevented the light of the moon from entering the chamber. " O'er all there hnng a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted. " But the cloud floated by, and the stream of light which immediately... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1862 - 644 pages
...with dark misgivings, feared to guess How many feet ascended. 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. Mr second day's journey was more uneventful than the first,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1862 - 522 pages
...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 ! t Yet no portentous shape the sight amazed ; Each object plain,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1863 - 508 pages
...man is more powerful than art itself : — " Over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of myslery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper to the ear, The place is haunted." A great defect of Anne Radcliffe's fictions is not their tediousneas of description, nor even the somewhat... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1863 - 626 pages
...its crimson unimpaired by time In such a wondrous manner ! 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 ! " ' Hood's novel of ' Tylney Hall ' is worth reading, and will... | |
 | Anonymous - History - 1863 - 602 pages
...its crimson unimpaired by timo In such a wondrous manner ! 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 ! " Hood's novel of ' Tylney Hall ' is worth reading, and will be... | |
 | James Payn - 1864 - 342 pages
...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... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1871 - 584 pages
...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 said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted." Inhabitants here — in this dreary haunt of excommunicated spirits... | |
 | 418 pages
...gloomy as that ghostly hall, With its deserted portal. " 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 ! " "But perhaps, of all rhymed poems, Hood's " Bridge of Sighs" is... | |
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O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted! 
