 | 1866 - 908 страници
...gloomily " uncanny " than the blackest morass on Dartmoor :— " O'er all thoro hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted; And said,...whisper in the ear— « ' The place is haunted.' " After all, whatever may have been the iniquity of "ce monstrc Pitt" in confining his victims under... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 страници
...turned, and up its slender thread Ran 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, Prophetic hints that tilled the soul with dread, But through one gloomy entrance pointing mostly, The... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1866 - 484 страници
...detail, because the imagination of man is more powerful than art itself :— " 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." A great defect of Anne RadclinVs fictions is not their tediousness... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1867 - 464 страници
...made the very frame of Nature quiver ; And ev'ry thrilling nerve and fibre feel So ague-Uke 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 hadlinger'd in the house, To lure the thought into a social channel ! But not a rat... | |
 | 1867 - 526 страници
...Turningvort, to supply us with cork substitutes of so awful and mysterious a power I HG BELL. CHAPTER L " For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted ! " Hoon. " Bur if the house is so comfortable, and suits you so well, why are you leaving it ?" I... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1867 - 542 страници
...the most tremendous detail, because the imagination of man is more powerful that art itself: — " 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." The great defect of Ann RadclifTe's fictions is not their tediousness... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1867 - 550 страници
...the imagination of man is more powerful that art itself: — " Over all there hung a eloud of fcar, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper to the ear, The place is haunted." The great defect of Ann Radcliffe's fictions is not their tediousness... | |
 | 1867 - 520 страници
...highest pitch : — " O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit haunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted !" We cannot criticise at length the whole of his serious poems, and will only mention the more important... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1868 - 562 страници
...than the most tremendous detail, because the imagination of man is more powerful that art itself: — "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." The great defect of Ann Radcliffe's fictions is not their tediousness... | |
 | 1869 - 254 страници
...the 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 said,...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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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. 
