 | George Barrell Cheever - 1849 - 246 pages
...Webster has depicted the workings of the murderer's conscience, the impossibility of hiding his crime. " The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow such a secret, and say it is safe. The guilty soul cannot keep its own secret. It is false to itself;... | |
 | Charles Wainwright March - 1850 - 318 pages
...retreats ; retraces his steps to the window, passes out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder. No eye has seen him, no ear has heard...and say it is safe. Not to speak of that eye which glances through all disguises, and beholds everything as in the splendor of noon, such secrets of guilt... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 388 pages
...out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder, — no eye has seen him, no car has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe!...and say it is safe. Not to speak of that eye which glances through all disguises, and beholds every thing, as in the splendor of noon, such secrets of... | |
 | Charles Wainwright March - 1850 - 310 pages
...retreats ; retraces his steps to the window, passes out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder. No eye has seen him, no ear has heard...neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it3 and say it is safe. Not to speak of that eye which glances through, all disguises, and beholds... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 656 pages
...retreats, retraces his steps to the window, passes out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder. No eye has seen him, no ear has heard...Not to speak of that eye which pierces through all disguise's, and beholds every thing as in the splendor of noon, such secrets of guilt are never safe... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...his step to the window, passes out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder—no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secret...nor corner where the guilty can bestow it and say that it is safe. Not to speak of that Eye which glances through all disguises, and beholds every thing... | |
 | Salem Town - 1851 - 422 pages
...as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder ; no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. 5. The secret is his own, and it is safe ! Ah ! gentlemen,...was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe no where. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it, and... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1851 - 328 pages
...He retreats — retraces his steps to the window, passes through as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder; no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him ; the secret is his own, and he is safe ! Ah ! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...to the window, passes out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder: no eye 15 has seen him ; no ear has heard him: the secret is his own, and he is safe ! 16 Ah! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. 17 Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...retreats, retraces his steps to the window, passes out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder — no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The •«cret is his own, and it is safe ! Ah ! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret tan... | |
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He feels for it, and ascertains that it beats no longer! It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats, retraces his steps to the window, passes out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder; no eye has seen him, no ear has heard... 
