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. Prose and Verse - Page 134by Thomas Hood - 1845Full view - About this book
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...rugged 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...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted! " The flow'r grew wild and rankly ns the weed, Roses with thistles stiuggled for espial, And vagrant... | |
| Periodicals - 1846 - 730 pages
...every nook and chamber, and over the deserted garden. s * * * " O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain аа whisper in the ear, The place is haunted or No dog was at the threshold, great email — No pigeon... | |
| 1847 - 432 pages
...the noonday sun. The very birds, methought, knew the story of the place, and kept aloof with dread: "For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A. sense of mystery the spirit daunted." Having thoroughly examined the place, I remounted my mule ; and after proceeding through the rank and... | |
| Methodist Church - 1848 - 660 pages
...beckoned his patient to follow. He took him into a large room, lighted with a dim uncertain twilight. "And over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted." When they had entered, the doctor locked the door, and commanded the patient to divest himself of his... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1849 - 430 pages
...made the very frame of nature quiver ; And every thrilling nerve and fibre feel So ague-like 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 had lingered in the house, To lure the thought into a social channel ! But not a rat... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 pages
...the most tremendous 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." The great defect of Anne Radcliffe's fictions is not their tediousness... | |
| 1849 - 588 pages
...ruined, desolate, forlorn, and savage ; No hand or foot within that precinct came To rectify or ravage. For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of m j-stery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted !" HOOD.... | |
| 1850 - 654 pages
...desolate, forlorn, and savage, No hand or foot within the precinct came To rectify or ravage. " Yet over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whispers in the ear, ' The place is haunted!'" We cannot stop to speak at large of the mad metres of... | |
| Henry Thompson - Ballads - 1850 - 280 pages
...ANNABEL C . " O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, That said, as plain as whisper in the ear, ' The place is haunted.' " HOOD. THERE are grim old pictures on the walls, And the walls are frowning oak ; There is ghost-like... | |
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