 | Rev. Alexander Stewart - Folklore - 1883 - 444 pages
...familiar. Mickle, in his fine ballad Cumnor Hall, has a reference to the same superstition : — " 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." To sneer at such beliefs, and pooh-pooh them superciliously... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1883 - 1018 pages
...name, when those which they rode became unfit for service. CHAPTER FORTY-FIRST. The death-bell tlirice was heard to ring, An aerial voice was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. MICKLR. WE are now to return to that part of our story where... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1884 - 544 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... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 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... | |
 | Jeanie M. Laing - Folklore - 1885 - 120 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - English fiction - 1886 - 908 pages
...horses in the queen's name, when those which they rode became unfit for service. CHAPTER FORTY-FIRST. 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 Curanor Hall. MlCKLB. WE are now to return to that part of our story where... | |
 | Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1889 - 336 pages
...Colin,' and this perfect stanza in Mickle's • Cumnor Hall,' quoted in Introd. to ' Kenilworth ' : — '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.' 1. 217. Cp. Midsummer Night's Dream, v. 1. 286: 'The death... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 394 pages
...the dawn of day appeared, In Curanor 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 vo;ce was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapped its wing Around the towers of Cumnor HalL The... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Children's poetry - 1891 - 816 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... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Children's poetry - 1892 - 328 pages
...to ring ; An aerial voice 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 on the green ; Woe was the hour — for never more That hapless Countess e'er was seen ! And in that... | |
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In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear. Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. 
