 | David Mallet, Frederick Dinsdale - 1857 - 424 pàgines
...: at once they fly, As shadows pass ; nor is their path beheld." Mallet: Excursion, 11. 22-32. "... and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall...walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new-open'd grave ; and (strange to tell !) Evanishes at crowing of the cock." Blair : The Grave, 11.... | |
 | John E. Farbrother - 1859 - 248 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,...walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new-open'd grave ; and (strange to tell !) Evanishes at crowing of the cock." Blair. In ancient times... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 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...walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new-open'd grave ; and, strange to tell ! Evanishes at crowing of the cock. Invidious Grave ! how dost... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - 418 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. Robert Blai,: COMMERCE— A HELP TO RELIGION. THE powerful sun Hot India's zone with gaudy pencil paints,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1863 - 420 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. Robert Blair. (.'OMMEllUE— A KELP TO RELIGION. THE powerful sun Hot India's zone with gaudy pencil... | |
 | John Mackay Wilson - 1863 - 576 pàgines
...had stopped them ! This was the first time I had seen a dead bride. THE GHOST OF HOWDYCRAIGS. " They gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly."— BLAIB. AFTER all that has been written, printed, and circulated, in the way of " Statistical Accounts,"... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 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...walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new-open'd grave ; and, strange to tell ! Evanishes at crowing of the cock. The Grave.— ROBERT BLAIR.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pàgines
...unreasonable. Sh. K. John, iv. 2. An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. Sh. R. in. tv.4. They gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghostly, That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new-open'd grave, and, (strange... | |
 | John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 pàgines
...tongues that syllable men's names, And sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. MILTON'S Comut They gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghostly, That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new-open'd grave, and (strange to... | |
 | 1843 - 780 pàgines
...Sudden he starts, and bears, or thinks he bears. The sound of something purring at his heels ; Full fast he flies, and dares not look behind him, Till out of breath he overtakes bis fellows, \V ho gather round and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly. That... | |
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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,... 
