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| Thomas Hood - 1861 - 394 pages
...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 ! But gay or gloomy, steadfast or infirm, No heart was tliere to heed the hour's duration; All times... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1861 - 482 pages
...shone, barred 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 flower grew wild and rankly as the weed, Roses with thistles struggled for espial, And vagrant... | |
| Emma Jane Worboise - 1862 - 644 pages
...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
...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... | |
| Anonymous - 1863 - 602 pages
...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... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1863 - 626 pages
...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... | |
| James Payn - 1864 - 342 pages
...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... | |
| 418 pages
...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,... | |
| London metrop. tabernacle - 1871 - 584 pages
...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... | |
| 1882 - 972 pages
...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... | |
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