| Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 pągines
...hears, The sound of something purring at his heels; Full fast he flies, and dares not look behind, Till out of breath he overtakes his fellows; Who gather...walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new opened grave; and, strange to tell! Evanishes at crowing of the cock. JAMES THOMSON. 1700—1748.... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pągines
...hears, or thinks he hears, The sound of something purring at his heels ; Full fast he flies, and darea riches, melancholy sea ! We ask not such from thee....shining through their stillness, lies ! Thou hast new-open'd grave ; and (strange to tell!) Evanishes at crowing of the cock. Robert Blair.— Born 1699,... | |
| Daniel Clark - 1873 - 320 pągines
...sound of something purring at his heels, Full fast hr flies, and dares not look behind him, Till out ol breath he overtakes his fellows ; Who gather round...wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghestly, That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new opened grave ; and, strange... | |
| James Grant Wilson - 1875 - 622 pągines
...Sudden he starts, and hears, or thinks he hears, The sound of something purring at his heels; Full fairt he flies, and dares not look behind him, Till, out...walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new-open'd grave; and, strange to tell! Evanishes at erowing of the eoek. The new-made widow, too,... | |
| James Grant Wilson - 1876 - 604 pągines
...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 new-made widow, too,... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pągines
...starts ; and hears, or thinks he hears, The sound of something passing at his heels. Full fast ho Hies, and dares not look behind him Till, out of breath,...round and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition. William Collins, who died insane in 1759, published his Odes in 1747, at the age of six-and-twenty.... | |
| John Ross - 1878 - 786 pągines
...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...strange to tell ! Evanishes at crowing of the cock. Invidious grave ! how dost thou rend in sunder Whom love has knit, and sympathy made onel A tie more... | |
| John Ross - 1878 - 816 pągines
...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...stand O'er some new-opened grave; and, strange to tell I Evanishes at crowing of the cock. Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul! Sweet'ner of life !... | |
| Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1878 - 344 pągines
...crows, and the morning grows on, When 'tis decreed I must be gone." Blair, too, in his ' Grave' says — "The tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,...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." In Devonshire and Cornwall,... | |
| W. F. March Phillipps - 1879 - 384 pągines
...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...strange to tell, Evanishes at crowing of the cock. » * * * * Dull Grave, thou spoilest the dance of youthful blood, Strik'st out the dimple from the... | |
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