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... Poems - Page 35by Thomas Hood - 1854 - 388 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1846 - 534 pages
...aloof, and daring Poacher, In spite of gaps, that through the fences round Invited the encroacher. ' For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of...spirit daunted ; And said, as plain as whisper in mine ear, The place is haunted.' Vol. i. pp. 43, et seq. The whole poem is of considerable length ;... | |
| 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... | |
| University magazine - 1846 - 780 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...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted ! " The flow'r grew wild and rankly as the weed, Roses with thistles struggled for espial, And vagrant... | |
| 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... | |
| 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
...long ago been broken. There was so foul a rumor in the air, The shadow of a presence so atrocious ; No human creature could have feasted there, Even the...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted ! "Tis hard for human actions to account, Whether from reason or from impulse only — But some internal... | |
| 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.... | |
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