 | John Ross - 1878 - 786 páginas
...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...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. Invidious grave ! how dost... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1878 - 344 páginas
...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,...strange to tell, Evanishes at crowing of the cock." In Devonshire and Cornwall, when the cock crows more than usually, it is said to be " a sign that a... | |
 | W. F. March Phillipps - 1879 - 384 páginas
...phrase who lies 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...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. » * * * * Dull Grave, thou... | |
 | John Mackay Wilson - 1881 - 748 páginas
...so dearly purchased by our forefathers. THE GHOST OF HOWDYCRAIGS. l!v ALEXANDF.R ВETIUiNE. " 'Ikry gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly." — Bl-AlR. AFTER all that has been written, printed, and circulated, in the way of "Statistical Accounts,"... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 páginas
...blunt his natural edge "With profits of the mind, study and fast. 8h. M.for Jf. i. 5. APPARITION. 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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 páginas
...iv. Sc. 2 An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. 5090 Shaks. : Richard HI. Act iv. Sc. 4. Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid...walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new-opeu'cl grave, and, strange to tell, Evanishes at crowing of the cock. 5091 Blair: Grave. Line... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 492 páginas
...Sudden he starts ; and hears, or thinks he hears, The sound of something passing at his heels. Ill Full fast he flies, and dares not look behind him Till, out of breath, ho overtakes his fellows, Who gather round and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition. William Collins,... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1884 - 580 páginas
...in haste away, And vanished from our sight." Blair, too, in his " Grave," has these graphic words : "the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,...strange to tell, Evanishes at crowing of the cock." This superstition has not entirely died out in England, and a correspondent of "Notes and Queries "2... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 440 páginas
...phrase who lies 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...strange to tell ! Evanishes at crowing of the cock." Among the single didactic poems of a gloomy cast, of which so many were produced during the eighteenth... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 462 páginas
...phrase who lies 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...strange to tell ! Evanishes at crowing of the cock. " Among the single didactic poems of a gloomy cast, of which so many were produced during the eighteenth... | |
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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,... 
