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" All night I lay in agony, From weary chime to chime; With one besetting horrid hint That racked me all the time — A mighty yearning, like the first Fierce impulse unto crime — "One stern tyrannic thought, that made All other thoughts its slave! Stronger... "
Prose and Verse - Page 26
by Thomas Hood - 1849 - 401 pages
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The Lady's Magazine: Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex ...

1829 - 696 pages
...body of his wretched victim into a pool, Aram is supposed to proceed in the following strain : — " Heavily I rose up, as soon As light was in the sky, And sought the black accursed pool With a wild misgiving-eye ; And I saw the dead in the river bed, For the faithless stream was dry ! Merrily rose...
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Zeluco: Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign ...

John Moore - 1792 - 584 pages
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Spirit of the English Magazines

1828 - 514 pages
...hint, That rack'd me all the time, — A mighty yearning, like the first Fierce impulse unto crime ! One stern, tyrannic thought, that made All other thoughts...that temptation crave. — Still urging me to go and sec The dead man iu his grave ! Heavily I rose up, — as soon As light was in the sky, — And sought...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 7

1836 - 706 pages
...A mighty yearning, like the first Fierté impulse unto crimo ! 4 One etern, tyrannic thought, that All other thoughts its slave; Stronger and stronger...Heavily I rose up — as soon As light was in the sky — Aod sought the black, accnreed pool With a wild misgiving eye ; And 1 saw the dead in the river...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 7

1836 - 676 pages
...hint, That racked me all the tinv, A mighty yearning, like the first Fierce impulse unto crime : ' One stern, tyrannic thought, that made All other thoughts its slave; Stronger and stronger every pulso Did that temptation crave — Still urging me to go and кее The dead man in his gravo ! '...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 9

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1837 - 648 pages
...restless on its throne. One thought filled his mind — one thought beset him, sleeping or waking; 'One stern tyrannic thought, that made All other thoughts its slave ; Stronger and stronger every pulse Di,>that temptation crave — Still urging him to go and see The dead man in his grave.' • It is...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 17

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1841 - 564 pages
...go and see the dead man in his grave :' 4 Heavily I rose up — as soon As light was in the aky — And sought the black, accursed pool With a wild misgiving eye; And I яак tht dead in the rite r'« bed, For thefaitkiets etream vat dry .' 4 Merrily rose the lark, and...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 8

1846 - 608 pages
...hint, That rack'd ine all the time ; A mighty yearning, like the first Fierce impulse uuto crime ! " ' One stern, tyrannic thought, that made All other thoughts...his grave ! " ' Heavily I rose up, as soon As light wnsin the sky, And sought the black accursed pool With a wild misgiving eye ; And I saw the Dead in...
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Mirror Library, Issues 1-31

George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 716 pages
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The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...hint, That rack'd me all the time,— A mighty yearning, like the first Fierce impulse unto crime ! " One stern, tyrannic thought, that made All other thoughts...in the river bed, For the faithless stream was dry . But I never mark'd its morning flight, I never heard it sing : For I was stooping once again Under...
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