...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 said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted 1' The latter verse recurs throughout the poem with singular effect The length of the piece places...

...VOL. I. CHAPTER XI. THE HAUNTED HOUSE. " O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted." ; CTOBER had run its course, died, and November reigned in its stead. The trees were quite bare now,...

...pregnant and effective of the stanzas : " O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear, And a sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted ! " Had Hood only written " The Haunted House " it would have sufficed to render him immortal. ELIZABETH...

...the child of a monkey ! " CHAPTER VIII. And 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. HOOD. DiNN7EE was not till eight o'clock, and Josceline and Ralph, having nothing better to do in the...

...in on my own mind, everyone who looked hereafter at the scene depicted would understand each adjunct said, ' As plain as whisper in the ear ! The place is haunted !' The pathos of the broken wheel, the water rushing down unheeded, the desolate silence of the mill,...

...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 said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!" The latter verse recurs throughout the poem with singular effect The length of the piece places it...

...of the ' divine origin ' of slavery."* " O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear, A sense oC mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, This place is haunted." Yea, this was the stubble-ground of slavery, grown rank in the planting of...

...feasted there, Even the most ferocious. O'er all these hung a shadow and a fear — A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, ' The place is haunted.' " Not unfrequently, in his works and in his prefaces, Hawthorne interprets himself for the critics....

...veritable haunted houses ; for ; — " O'er all there hangs the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Jwunted." Few, it may be, but genuine haunted houses we have ! enjoying all the special privileges,...

...slender thread Kan with a nimble terror. 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 place is haunted ! The Haunted Howse, TOM HOOD. THE ancient sense of human life beset on all sides by heavenly watchers...