...no signs of life, all presented a scene of dreary desolation — " O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted." Inhabitants here — in this dreary haunt of excommunicated spirits ? Yes, many, although their voices...

...look'd so gloomy as that ghostly hall, With its deserted portal. " For over all there hung a cloud of fear — A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted ! " "But perhaps, of all rhymed poems, Hood's " Bridge of Sighs" is the most ingenious and remarkable,...

...human guilt and error, Suddenly turned, and up its slender thread Ran with a nimble terror. *' * * O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense...daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, Prophetic hints that tilled the soul with dread, But through one gloomy entrance pointing mostly, The...

...more gloomily " uncanny " than the blackest morass on Dartmoor :— " O'er all thoro hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted; And...whisper in the ear— « ' The place is haunted.' " After all, whatever may have been the iniquity of "ce monstrc Pitt" in confining his victims under...

...substitutes of so awful and mysterious a power ! HG BELL. CHAPTEE L " For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said,...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted ! " Hooix. " BUT if the house is so comfortable, and suits you so well, why are you leaving it ?" I...

...pictures, cabinets of ancient date, And earvings gilt and burnish'd. ' And over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said,...plain as whisper in the ear — The place is Haunted ! ' Was that what you heard at your Guildford entertainment ? " " Yes, that was it — and a great...

...because the imagination of man is more powerful than art itself :— " Over all there hung.a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the .spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper to the ear, The place is haunted." A great defect of Anne RadclinVs fictions is not their tediousness...

...dusty floor, a dismal token, Projected from the casement's painted pane, Where all beside was broken. O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted ! The Death- Watch tick'd behind the panell'd oak, Inexplicable tremors shook the arras, And echoes...

...substitutes of so awful and mysterious a power I HG BELL. CHAPTER L " For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said,...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted ! " Hoon. " Bur if the house is so comfortable, and suits you so well, why are you leaving it ?" I...

...refrain which every now and then comes in when thefeelings are strung to the highest pitch : — " O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit haunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted !" We cannot criticise at length...