 | James Madison Watson - 1876 - 484 страници
...unholy presence, augurs truly ; And with a grim significance flits round The taper burning bluely. 4- Such omens in the place there seemed to be, At every...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted ! 5. Yet no portentous shape the sight amazed ; Each object plain, and tangible, and valid ; But from... | |
 | William Mathews - 1876 - 474 страници
...imagination of man is more powerful than art itself. So with Hood's description of the Haunted House : — " 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!" Thoreau, describing an interview he had at Concord with John Brown,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1876 - 576 страници
...the most tremendous 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 car, The place is haunted." The great defect of Ann Radcliffe's fictions is not their tediousness... | |
 | 1906 - 604 страници
...grow and flourish. — HLW The Witness of the Storm By CA Meeker "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." — Hood. The house itself was a very ordinary wooden building of two stories, standing close to the... | |
 | A. Leitch - 1911 - 250 страници
...knew not, but surely no mortal trout swam in that unholy tarn. " 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." I was unpleasantly conscious of the close presence of something weird and uncanny, and moved furtively... | |
 | Hugh Walker, Janie Roxburgh Walker - 1913 - 1116 страници
...precise. The object is to create a sense of the supernatural : — " 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 I" It is done by a careful selection of the objects the explorer — or the dreamer — sees, and of... | |
 | H. I. M. Self - 1913 - 122 страници
...an' the bloody fool 'e jumps an' e' breaks 'is bloody neck — we 'adn't got no bloody blanket." 11 "And Said as Plain as Whisper In the Ear, the Place Is Haunted." Sampans on the Yellow River. THE GHOST. A lonely little old hut on the bank of a river in Illinois... | |
 | Catherine Albertson - 1914 - 220 страници
...atmosphere of gloom and terror which the poet Hood has so graphically caught in his "Haunted House" : "But over all there hung a cloud of fear — A sense of...daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, 'The house is haunted.' " It is said that the basement room of the Brick House served as a dungeon for prisoners... | |
 | Federico Olivero - 1914 - 348 страници
...viene gradualmente impresso neh" animo per mezzo della strofa, O'er ali there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The piace is haunted ! che ritorna ne' punti più salienti e nella chiusa delle tre parti ; the bloody... | |
 | 1917 - 310 страници
...'healthy.' We miss the artistry of the effect as a whole while we shudder at the iteration and reiteration: For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted! :But this is to quarrel with the artist for his selection of material and to overlook the use to which... | |
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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. 
