 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 ! PART III.  Prose and verse - Side 131af Thomas Hood - 1849Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1863 - 622 sider
...crimson unimpaired by time In such a wondrous mauuer I And over all there hung a clood of fear ; A sen.<e of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain' as whisper in the ear, " The place is haunted 1 " ' Hood's novel of 'Tylney Hall' is worth reading, and will be road when our present popular sensation... | |
 | 470 sider
...every now and then breaks in as from an uncontrollable impulse of dread, the burden of the whole — " For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted." First he takes you to the door, shows you the neglected garden, the overthrown sun-dial, the rotting... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1896 - 312 sider
...kept 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...mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper to the ear, The place is Haunted. But space fails me, and I must rename the consideration of HOOD'S... | |
 | Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1892 - 362 sider
...Wished CONYBEABE in Hades. [sound, For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of imminent doom the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The House is Haunted ! n. Oh, very gloomy is this House of Woe, Where yawns are numerous while Big Ben... | |
 | 1849 - 606 sider
...ruined, desolate, forlorn, and savage ; Ifo hand or foot within that precinct came To rectify or ravage. For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted !" HOOD. At the end of this bye lane we arrive at the conjunction of the two roads ; and proceeding... | |
 | 1846 - 608 sider
...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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 sider
...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...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted ! If but a rat had lingered in the house, To lure the thought into a social channel ! But not a rat... | |
 | 1846 - 534 sider
...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 ;... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 sider
...of a presence so atrocious ; No human creature could have feasted there, Even the most ferocious ! For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of...the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper hi the ear, The place is haunted ! PART iit. Tis hard for human actions to account, Whether from reason... | |
 | University magazine - 1846 - 780 sider
...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... | |
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