...ragged roof the sky shone, barr'd With naked beam and rafter. " 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 ! " The flow'r grew wild and rankly as the weed, Roses with thistles struggled for espial, And vagrant...

...every nook and chamber, and over the deserted garden. s * * * " O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain аа whisper in the ear, The place is haunted or No dog was at the threshold, great email — No pigeon...

...the noonday sun. The very birds, methought, knew the story of the place, and kept aloof with dread: "For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A. sense of mystery the spirit daunted." Having thoroughly examined the place, I remounted my mule ; and after proceeding through the rank and...

...the noonday sun. The very birds, methought, knew the story of the place, and kept aloof with dread: "For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit dancted." Having thoroughly examined the place, I remounted my mule; and after proceeding through the...

...beckoned his patient to follow. He took him into a large room, lighted with a dim uncertain twilight. "And over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted." When they had entered, the doctor locked the door, and commanded the patient to divest himself of his...

...made the very frame of nature quiver ; And every thrilling nerve and fibre feel So ague-like a shiver. For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted ! If but a rat had lingered in the house, To lure the thought into a social channel ! But not a rat...

...the most tremendous detail, 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." The great defect of Anne Radcliffe's fictions is not their tediousness...

...ruined, desolate, forlorn, and savage ; No hand or foot within that precinct came To rectify or ravage. For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of m j-stery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted !" HOOD....

...desolate, forlorn, and savage, No hand or foot within the precinct came To rectify or ravage. " Yet over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whispers in the ear, ' The place is haunted!'" We cannot stop to speak at large of the mad metres of...

...fitful succession, woke up the rare old carvings and gilded cornices with a goblin merriment, " That said as plain as whisper in the ear The place is haunted." The expression of his face was that of mute questioning wonder. Though no exclamation escaped him,...