| Bernard Burke - England - 1848 - 268 pages
...the dawn of day appear'd In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. — The death-bell...was heard to call And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howl'd at village door, The oaks were shattered... | |
| 1848 - 808 pages
...Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. (t The death-bell thrice was heard to ring, An aerial voice was heard to cull, And thrice the raven flapped hU wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall." It was pleasant to turn... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1850 - 940 pages
...the dawn of day appear'd, In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear. Full many a piercing scream was heard. And many a cry of mortal fear. The death-bell thrice was heard to ring. An aerial voice was hoard to call, And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff... | |
| Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...the dawn of day appeared, In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. The death-bell thrice...aerial voice was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapped his wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howled at village door, The oaks were... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...the dawn of day appeared, In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, he mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast; ivas heard to call, And thrice the raven flapped his wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff... | |
| Peter Burke - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1851 - 544 pages
...the dawn of day appeared, In- Cumnor Hall so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. The death-bell thrice was heard to ring, An aeriel voice was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapped his wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall.... | |
| Walter Scott - 1853 - 532 pages
...the dawn of day appear'd, In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. The death-bell thrice...was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howl'd at village door, The oaks were shatter'd... | |
| Walter Scott - 1853 - 698 pages
...pressing horses in the queen's name, when those which they rode became unfit for service. CHAPTER XXII. The death-bell thrice was heard to ring An aerial voice was heard to call ; And thrice the raven flapped its wing Around the towers of Cumnor-halL Mickle. WE are now to return to that part of our... | |
| Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...the dawn of day appear' d, In Cumnor Hall so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. The death-bell thrice...voice was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapp'd his wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howl'd at village door, The oaks were shatter'd... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1854 - 568 pages
...its prophetic tongue will sometimes announce to persons who are about to die their impending doom. ' The death-bell thrice was heard to ring, An aerial...was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall.' VOL. xcv. NO. cxc. z Rogers, Rogers, in his lines on an ' Old... | |
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