 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,...  The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer - Page 330edited by - 1793Full view - About this book
 | 1831 - 472 pages
...The cock crowe, and the morn prows 'on, When 'tie decreed Д must be gone." — Butler. — — — The tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly. That walks at dead of night, or takes Ins stand O'er some new-opeu'd grave ; and, strange tu Evanishes at crowing of the e.aA.— l4air.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 442 pages
...be remembered: The cock crows, and the morn grows on, When 'tis decreed I must be gone — Butler. -The tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,...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. Who can ever... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1833 - 738 pages
...spasmodic violence from the scene — FuH fest he flies, and dares net look behind him, Till, out ef breath, he overtakes his fellows, Who gather round,...at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly — The »wift motions of the serpent half seen in the darkness, could not, sorely, be accomplished... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...hears — The sound of something purring at his heels : Full fast he flies, and dares not look behind, Till, out of breath, he overtakes his fellows, Who...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 to... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 pages
...hears, The sound of something purring at his heels : Full fast he flies, and dares not look behind, Till, out of breath, he overtakes his fellows, Who...round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition pale and ghastly, That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new-opened grave — and... | |
 | 1840 - 372 pages
...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...O'er some new open'd grave ; and (strange to tell !) Evanishes at crowing of the cock. Invidious grave ! how dost thou rend in sunder Whom love has knit,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...The sound of something purring at his heels ; Full fast he flies, and dares not look behind him, TiU out of breath he overtakes his fellows ; Who gather...at 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 If... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pages
...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...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. » * • • Invidious... | |
 | John Brand - 1841 - 356 pages
...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.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 612 pages
...and hears, or thinks he hears, The sound of something purring at his heels ; Fnll/ast he flies, and dares not look behind him, Till out of breath he overtakes...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 !'' Who would not prefer to... | |
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