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! Prose and Verse ... - Page 130by Thomas Hood - 1853 - 212 pagesFull view - About this book
| Emma Jane Worboise - 1862 - 644 pages
...with dark misgivings, feared to guess How many feet ascended. 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. HOOD. Mr second day's journey was more uneventful than the first, for no one disturbed my solitude,... | |
| Nathan Davis - 1862 - 438 pages
...prevented the light of the moon from entering the chamber. " O'er all there hnng 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. " But the cloud floated by, and the stream of light which immediately followed enabled me to ascertain... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1862 - 522 pages
...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 tho ear, The place is haunted ! THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS " Drowned ! drowned ! " — HAMLET. ONE more unfortunate,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1863 - 626 pages
...its crimson unimpaired by time In such a wondrous manner ! 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's novel of ' Tylney Hall ' is worth reading, and will be read read when our present popular... | |
| Anonymous - 1863 - 602 pages
...its crimson unimpaired by timo In such a wondrous manner ! 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's novel of ' Tylney Hall ' is worth reading, and will be read when our present popular sensation... | |
| James Payn - 1864 - 342 pages
...even Gilmore, who accompanied us, was affected by them. " 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, This place is worse than haunted." The library was the first room we entered, which, even in the palmiest... | |
| London metrop. tabernacle - 1871 - 584 pages
...of life, all presented a scene of dreary desolation — " 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." Inhabitants here — in this dreary haunt of excommunicated spirits ? Yes, many, although their voices... | |
| 418 pages
...gloomy as that ghostly hall, With its deserted portal. " 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 ! " "But perhaps, of all rhymed poems, Hood's " Bridge of Sighs" is the most ingenious and remarkable,... | |
| 1882 - 972 pages
...cabinets of ancient date, And earvings gilt and burnish'd. ' 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 ! ' Was that what you heard at your Guildford entertainment ? " " Yes, that was it — and a great... | |
| William P. Nimmo - 1866 - 542 pages
...of so awful and mysterious a power ! HG BELL. CHAPTEE L " 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 ! " Hooix. " BUT if the house is so comfortable, and suits you so well, why are you leaving it ?" I... | |
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