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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! "
A Complete Manual of English Literature - Page 436
by Thomas Budd Shaw - 1867 - 540 pages
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Incidents in the Life of Edward Wright

Edward Leach - Conversion - 1870 - 382 pages
...unaccountable feeling of dread in the minds of the two thieves. '' 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." Neither of them would hesitate to face an opponent, or to commit...
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College debts, by an Oxford M.A.

College debts - 1870 - 324 pages
...noble University is haunted ; yes, in the beautiful words of Hood— ' Over all there hangs a spell, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as words could tell, The place is haunted.' My place at least, sir, is haunted not by guardian Lai-es...
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The Roxburghe Ballads, Volume 5

William Chappell - Ballads, English - 1885 - 864 pages
...were lurking in the lobbies, or arrests were threatened : O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as...plain as whisper to the ear, " The place is haunted ! " That such loyal subjects as the actors could not banish dangerous characters from their houses,...
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The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti

Thomas Hood - 1871 - 466 pages
...veil'd 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 the ear, The place is Haunted ! MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG. A GOLDEN LEGEND. HER PEDIGREE....
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Johnson's Natural History, Comprehensive, Scientific, and Popular ..., Volume 2

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animal behavior - 1872 - 758 pages
...or foot within the precinct came To rectify or ravage. "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 house is haunted !' " The centipede along the threshold crept ; The cobweb hung across...
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Works, Volume 9

Thomas Hood - 1872 - 472 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 ! Yet no portentous Shape the sight amazed ; Each object plain, and...
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Poems, illustr. by B. Foster

Thomas Hood - 1872 - 300 pages
...veil'd 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 the ear, The place is Haunted ! >torm at AND THE LITTLE UNKNOWN. |WAS August — Hastings every...
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Letters from India and Kashmir: Written 1870

India - 1874 - 328 pages
...rua, along which innumerable throngs were wont to pass. " 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, ' The place is haunted ! ' " Goa, called also the " City of the Sails," perhaps from the...
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A strange world, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1875 - 308 pages
...involuntarily repeated those famous lines of Hood's,— VOL. II. D ' 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 !' The bedstead was a four-poster, with tall, spirally twisted posts,...
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Independent Sixth Reader: Containing a Complete Treatise on ..., Book 6

James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1875 - 486 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 ! 5. Yet no portentous shape the sight amazed ; Each object plain,...
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