 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pàgines
...The sound of something purring at his heels ; Full fast he flies, and dares not look behind him, TiU out of breath he overtakes his fellows ; Who gather...at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly, That'walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new open'd grave ; and (strange to tell If... | |
 | John Brand - 1841 - 356 pàgines
...something purring at his heels : Full fast he flies, and dares not look hehind him, Till, out of hreath, he overtakes his fellows ; Who gather round, and wonder...walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new open'd grave; and(strange to tell!) L vanishes at crowing of the cock." BLAIR'S " Grave.' IT having... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 612 pàgines
...Sudden he starts, and hears, or thinks he hears, The sound of something purring at his heels ; Fnll/ast he flies, and dares not look behind him, Till out...would not prefer to lie as Allan Cunningham lies at Kcnsal Green, not in a brick vault, but in his mother earth, or as Wilkie lies amid the blue-green... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 612 pàgines
...Sudden he starts, and hears, or thinks he hears, The sound of something purring at his heels ; Full fast he flies, and dares not look behind him, Till...round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, lall and ghastly, That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new-opened grave, and,... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 pàgines
...till, summoning his fleeting energies, he dashes with spasmodic violence from the scene — " Full iast he flies, and dares not look behind him, 'Till, out...the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly." The swift motions of the serpent half seen in the darkness, could not, surely, be accomplished without... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pàgines
...Sudden he starts ! and hears, or thinks ho hears. The sound of §oim>thing purring :it hid heelsFull fast he flies, and dares not look behind him. Till...fellows; Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Ofhorrid Apparition, tall and ghastly, That walks at dead of nleht, or takes his stand O'er some new-open'J... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 pàgines
...seized on all his limbs, His eyes distorted grew, his visage— pale; His sptxh forsook him ! Full fast he flies, and dares not look behind him ; Till,...overtakes his fellows, Who gather round, and wonder at th« lots of horrid apparition*. Come, old sir,— here's the place— stand still ; llc.w fearful... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 pàgines
...seized on all his limbs, His eyes datorud grew, his visage— pale; I lis speech forsook him ! Full feat he flies, and dares not look behind him ; Till, out...overtakes his fellows, Who gather round, and wonder at the lots of horrid apparitions. Came, old sir,— here's the place— stand still ; I low fearful 'tis... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 pàgines
...distorted grew, his visage—pale; His speech forsook him! Full fast he Sics, and dares not look l-lr.nd him; Till, out of breath, he overtakes his fellows, Who gather round, and wonder at the lots of horrid apparitions. Come, old sir,—here's the place—stand still; How fearful 'tis to cast... | |
 | Thomas Kibble Hervey - 1845 - 436 pàgines
...dinners and bride-ales, long ago, may have made way for the wild legend of the sea, or fearful anecdote " Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly, That walks at dead of night — or takes its stand O'er some new opened grave, and, strange to tell, Evanishes at crowing of the cock ;" and... | |
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And lightly tripping o'er the long flat stones (With nettles skirted, and with moss o'ergrown) That tell in homely phrase who lie below ; Sudden he starts ! and hears, or thinks he hears, The sound of something purring at his heels ; Full fast he flies,... 
