...LILLO. Awhile she stood, Transform'd by grief to marble, and appear'd Her own pale monument FESTON. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The...silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings. The Jew of Malta. MARLOW. As I have been a vulture to thy heart, So will I be a raven to thy ear, '...

...thereby announced. Thus Marlowe, in the Jew of Malta, as cited by Malone: — The sad presaging raven tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak ;...silent night, Doth shake contagion from her sable wing. But it is the province of philosophy to dispel these illusions which bewilder the mind, by pointing...

...to be retrenched in the recitation. Barabas speaks, after having been deprived of his wealth — ' Thus like the sad presaging raven, that tolls ' The sick man's passport in her hollow beak *, * This play was undoubtedly very popular, and the two lines which open this quotation are cited,...

...to be retrenched in the recitation. Barabas speaks, after having been deprived of his wealth — ' Thus like the sad presaging raven, that tolls ' The sick man's passport iu her hollow beak *, * This play was undoubtedly very popular, and the two lines which open this quotation...

...X. Thus, like the sad pretarinp raven, that toll* The nek man's passport in her hollow beak, And 10 the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wing* ; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barrabns, With fatal curses towards these Christians. Jtutf...

...foreboder of dire calamity, disease, or death. Thus one of our earlier poets — " The sad presaging Raven tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak ;...silent night, Doth shake contagion from her sable wing." No where perhaps more than in our own island did these superstitious notions prevail, till the...

...resemble. IDEM, Act n. Sc. 2. A rise, black vengeance, from- thy hollow cell. IDEM, OTHELLO, Act in. Sc. 3. Thus like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadows of the silent night Does shake contagion from her sable wings. MARLOWE'S JEW OP MALTA. When...

...intervals, from two hours to two hours, surrounded the lists, and kept watch during the night. CHAPTER XI. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The...silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings ; Vex'd and tormented, runa poor Barrabas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. Jan of Malta....

...hours, surrounded the lists, and kept watch during the night. * Presumption, insolence. ^-"-^^ Tims, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick...silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings ; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barrabas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. JEW oP MALTA....

...point of extremity ; for little knowest thou how in the end thou shalt be visited." The warning was — ss be told. (Oddly called by Herbert ' Tho Pulley.')...blessings standing by, ' Let us,' said he, ' pour on sabïe wings. Jea> ¡if Malta. Marlow's fatal conflict is supposed to have taken place at Dcptford,...