| Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1866 - 484 pages
...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,...plain as whisper to the ear, The place is haunted." A great defect of Anne RadclinVs fictions is not their tediousness ff description, nor even the somewhat... | |
| William P. Nimmo - 1866 - 542 pages
...of so awful and mysterious a power ! HG BELL. CHAPTEE L " 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 ! " Hooix. " BUT if the house is so comfortable, and suits you so... | |
| Great Britain - 1866 - 908 pages
...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, as plain as whisper in the ear— « ' The place is haunted.' " After all, whatever may have been the iniquity of "ce monstrc... | |
| 1882 - 972 pages
...cabinets of ancient date, And earvings gilt and burnish'd. ' 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 ! ' Was that what you heard at your Guildford entertainment ? "... | |
| Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...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... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1867 - 542 pages
...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...ear, The place is haunted." The great defect of Ann RadclifTe's fictions is not their tediousness of description, nor even the somewhat mawkish sentimentality... | |
| 1867 - 526 pages
...of so awful and mysterious a power I HG BELL. CHAPTER L " 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 ! " Hoon. " Bur if the house is so comfortable, and suits you so well,... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1867 - 464 pages
...the casement's painted pane, Where all beside was broken. 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 ! The Death- Watch tick'd behind the panell'd oak, Inexplicable tremors... | |
| American poetry - 1869 - 254 pages
...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, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted ! The flow'r grew wild and rankly as the weed, Roses with thistles... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1870 - 552 pages
...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 car, The place is haunted." The great defect of Ann Radcliffe's fictions is not their tediousness of... | |
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