 Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings, Vex'd and tormented runs poor Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians.  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 2631818Full view - About this book
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1890 - 616 pages
...House, now a Nunnery. Enter BARABAS with a light. Bar. Thus, like the sad presaging raven that tolls "sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the...silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings ; Vexed and tormented runs poor Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians. The uncertain pleasures... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1891 - 478 pages
...It never does to be alarmists : Like the presaging raven that tolls The sick man's passport in his hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from his sable wings. In these days, added my Talking Friend, every one that could, began to ride a better... | |
 | 1892 - 826 pages
...1633, thus alludes to the common belief regarding the raven : Like the sad presaging raven that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And, in the shadow of the silent night, Does shake contagion from her sable wing. So also Gay in his " Pastorals " : The boding raven on her... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1892 - 812 pages
...1633, thus alludes to the common belief regarding the raven : Like the sad presaging raven thut tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And, in the shadow of the silent night. Does shake contagion from her sable wing. So also Gay in his " Pastorals " : The boding raven on her... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1893 - 568 pages
...lists, and kept watch during the night. CHAPTER TENTH. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in...from her sable wings; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barabbas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. JEW OF MALTA. THE Disinherited Knight had no... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1893 - 422 pages
...kept watch during the night. CHAPTER X. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick mau's passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of...from her sable wings ; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barrabas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. Jew of Malta. THE Disinherited Knight had no... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1895 - 544 pages
...of armor to be used again on the morrow. CHAPTER X. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in...from her sable wings ; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barabbas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. The Jew of Malta. THE Disinherited Knight had... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1895 - 556 pages
...the lists, and kept watch during the night. CHAPTER X. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in...from her sable wings ; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barabbas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. The Jew of Malta. THE Disinherited Knight had... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1895 - 564 pages
...surrounded the lists, and kept watch during the night. Thus, like the Bad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in...contagion from her sable wings ; Vex'd and tormented, ruus poor Barabbas, With fatal curses towards these Cbristiaus. The Jni: of Malta. THE Disinherited... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - 1895 - 368 pages
...Marlowe, in like spirit, in his " Rich Jew of Malta," dwells on the sad presaging raven " That tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in...night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings." The whole field of literature teems with references of the same ominous character. It will suffice... | |
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