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! Poems - Seite 112von Thomas Hood - 1846 - 229 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Morley Punshon - 1860 - 362 Seiten
...stair, apparitions met the straining eye-ball upon every landing— " For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said,...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted I" and he retired affrighted, with the big, cold drops upon his brow, and it must be a powerful motive... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1861 - 394 Seiten
...glaring on the old heraldic banner, Had kept its crimson unimpair'd by time, In such a wondrous manner ! O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted ! The Death- Watch tick'd behind the panel'd oak, Inexplicable tremors shook the arras, And echoes... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1861 - 482 Seiten
...crimson unimpaired by time, In such a wondrous manner ! O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear 5 A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted ! The death-watch ticked behind the panelled oak, Inexplicable tremors shook the arras, And echoes... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1861 - 520 Seiten
...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 aa whisper in the car, The place is haunted ! Yet no portentous shape the sight amazed ; Each object... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1862 - 522 Seiten
...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 ; A sense...the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in tho ear, The place is haunted ! THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS " Drowned ! drowned ! " — HAMLET. ONE more unfortunate,... | |
| Nathan Davis - 1862 - 434 Seiten
...then prevented the light of the moon from entering the chamber. " 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." But the cloud floated by, and the stream of light which immediately followed enabled me to ascertain... | |
| Emma Jane Worboise - 1862 - 644 Seiten
...mind, 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...plain as whisper in the ear — The place is haunted. HOOD. Mr second day's journey was more uneventful than the first, for no one disturbed my solitude,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1863 - 736 Seiten
...kept its crujfKm 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...plain as whisper in the ear, " The place is haunted ! " ' Hood's novel of ' Tylney Hall ' is worth reading, and will be read read when our present popular... | |
| Anonymous - 1863 - 602 Seiten
...kept 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...plain as whisper in the ear, " The place is haunted ! " Hood's novel of ' Tylney Hall ' is worth reading, and will be read when our present popular sensation... | |
| James Payn - 1864 - 342 Seiten
...intensified these feelings in us three, and even Gilmore, who accompanied us, was affected by them. " O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear ; A sense...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 in the palmiest... | |
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