 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, and dares not look behind him, Till out of breath he overtakes his fellows ; Who gather round,...  The Ladies' Companion - Seite 3151861Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1837 - 646 Seiten
...dares not look behind, Till, out of breath, he overtakes his fellows, Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition tall and ghastly, That...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." Sometimes he rises... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 Seiten
...breath, he overtakes his fellows, Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition pale and ghastly, That walks at dead of night, or takes...(strange to tell) Evanishes at crowing of the cock. The name of Alexander suggests a sublime allusion to the vanity of human greatness, in the finest spirit... | |
 | John Brand - 1841 - 356 Seiten
...and the morning grows on, When 'tis decreed I must he gone." Thus also Blair, in his " Grave :" — " 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, Evanishes at crowing of the Cock." (4) In England's Parnassus.... | |
 | 1843 - 602 Seiten
...dares not look behind him, Till out of breath he overtakes his fellows, Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly, •...strange to tell, Evanishes at crowing of the cock !'' Who would not prefer to lie as Allan Cunningham lies at Kensal Green, not in a brick vault, but... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 612 Seiten
...dares not look behind him, Till out of breath he overtakes his fellows, Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly, That...strange to tell, Evanishes at crowing of the cock !'' Who would not prefer to lie as Allan Cunningham lies at Kcnsal Green, not in a brick vault, but... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 612 Seiten
...breath he overtakes his fellows, Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, lall and ghastly, That walks at dead of night, or takes...O'er some new-opened grave, and, strange to tell, (¿vanishes at crowing of the cock !'" Who would not prefer to lie as Allan Cunningham lies at Kcnsal... | |
 | Thomas Kibble Hervey - 1845 - 436 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John William Lester - 1847 - 376 Seiten
...dares not look hehiud, Till, out of breath, he overtakes his fellows, Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly, That...(strange to tell) Evanishes at crowing of the cock. The love of the supernatural is an ingredient in every mind; we all give much of our regard to the... | |
 | 1847 - 540 Seiten
...MILTON'S Comua. 6. 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 tell,) Evanishes at crowing of the cock. BLAIR'S Grave. 6. For spirits,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 432 Seiten
...remembered : The cock crows, and the morn grows on, When 'tia decreed I must begone. — Butler. it bego -The tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,...night-watches proclaimed by the cock in that scene in Comns, where the two brothers, in search of their sister, are benighted in a forest ? -Might we but... | |
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