| 1861 - 378 pages
...fitful succession, woke up the rare old carvings and gilded cornices with a goblin merriment, " That said as plain as whisper in the ear The place is haunted." The expression of his face was that of mute questioning wonder. Though no exclamation escaped him,... | |
| Henry Thompson - 1850 - 280 pages
...ANNABEL C . " O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, That said, as plain as whisper in the ear, ' The place is haunted.' " HOOD. THERE are grim old pictures on the walls, And the walls are frowning oak ; There is ghost-like... | |
| Henry Thompson - 1850 - 280 pages
...ANNABEL C . " O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, That said, as plain as whisper in the ear, ' The place is haunted.' " HOOD. THERE are grim old pictures on the walls, And the walls are frowning oak ; There is ghost-like... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1851 - 430 pages
...hardly veiled the tapestry at all, Or portrait frowning grimly. O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The plape is haunted ! LIFE IN THE SICK ROOM.* OF all the know-nothing persons in this world, commend us... | |
| Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1851 - 942 pages
...desolate, forlorn, and savage ; Nor hand nor foot within the precinct came To rectify or ravage. Yet over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted." HOOD. ANNE had fairly started upon her voyage of discovery. The beginning of it cost her many thoughts.... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 248 pages
...nook and angle ; And over all there hung a sign of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, A nd said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted."* Now, how far reality may have had anything to do with those fancies may not be said ; but all haunted... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1853 - 422 pages
...made the very frame of nature quiver ; And every thrilling nerve and fibre feel So ague-like a shiver. For over all there hung a cloud of fear? A sense of...spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the eajy The place is haunted ! If but a rat had lingered in- the house, To lure the thought into a social... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1853 - 770 pages
...the tread of other feet than your own along the blackened floors. O'er all there hung a shadow ami a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said,...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted. The number of prisoners at Dartmoor at one time exceeded 10,000. There were among them subjects of... | |
| J. Benwell - 1853 - 272 pages
...the place brings to recollection those striking lines of Hood, " O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said,...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted." During my stay at Fort Andrews, a large detachment of US troops arrived, continuing a campaign against... | |
| Eliza H. Keating - 1853 - 378 pages
...HAUNTED HOUSE." BY ELIZA H. KEATING. ILLUSTRATED BY MHS. \V, INGBAM. * For over all there cmiic a shade of fear — A sense, of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, This place is haunted."— HOon. LONDON ; ART HUH HALL, VIRTUE, AND CO. JOSIAII ALLEN AND SON, PRINTERS,... | |
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