The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain, Band 1Gibbings & Company, Limited, 1897 - 641 Seiten |
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affair afterwards alarm ancient apparition appeared became bed-room believed BERRY POMEROY CASTLE Bettiscombe BISHAM ABBEY Black Heddon boggart Bolling Hall brother called Calverley candle Captain chamber child circumstances Clegg Hall Cortachy Castle Cumnor curious dark death died disturbances door dream dress Earl eyes father figure gentleman ghost ghostly Glamis Castle hand haunted head hear heard Hinton Ampner horse hour inquiries John knocking known lady legend light lived looked Lord mansion Mary King's Close Miss morning mother mysterious narrative neighbour neighbourhood never night noise o'clock passed person remarkable replied residence returned Robert Dale Owen round says seemed seen servant sister skull sleep Smithills Hall sound spectre spirit stairs stood story strange suddenly supernatural thought told took tradition Tregeagle walked walls whilst wife window woman Wynyard young
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Seite 295 - Sure, sir, you have slept since I saw you; and this is the result of some melancholy dream, which I desire you to forget, for you are now awake.
Seite 537 - O'er Roslin all that dreary night A wondrous blaze was seen to gleam ; 'Twas broader than the watch-fire light, And redder than the bright moonbeam. It glared on Roslin's castled rock, It ruddied all the copse-wood glen ; 'Twas seen from Dryden's groves of oak, And seen from cavern'd Hawthornden.
Seite 506 - ... down again, he met him a second time. When he came up, he asked some of the people of the house what Ford could be doing there. They told him Ford was dead. The waiter took a fever, in which he lay for some time. When he recovered, he said he had a message to deliver to some women from Ford ; but he was not to tell what, or to whom. He walked out ; he was followed ; but somewhere about St. Paul's they lost him. He came back, and said he had delivered the message, and the women exclaimed, 'Then...
Seite 294 - I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you: I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me through this room, with her hair hanging about her shoulders, and a dead child in her arms: this I have seen since I saw you.
Seite 605 - ... for his father, no evidence could be recovered to support his defence. The period was now near at hand when he conceived the loss of his lawsuit to be inevitable, and he had formed his determination to ride to Edinburgh next day, and make the best bargain he could in the way of compromise.
Seite 501 - The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave. The mask which concealed the visage was made so nearly to resemble the countenance of a stiffened corpse that the closest scrutiny must have had difficulty in detecting the cheat.
Seite 275 - He censured Lord Kames's Sketches of the History of Man, for misrepresenting Clarendon's account of the appearance of Sir George Villiers's ghost, as if Clarendon were weakly credulous ; when the truth is, that Clarendon only says, that the story was...
Seite 404 - 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 Manor now no more Is cheerful feast and sprightly ball; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the ancient moss-grown wall; Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the Countess' fall, As wand'ring onwards they've espied The haunted...
Seite 537 - There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle; Each one the holy vault doth hold— But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle. And each St Clair was buried there, With candle, with book, and with knell ; But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds sung, The dirge of lovely Rosabelle ! XXIV.
Seite 83 - Several gentlemen and clergymen now earnestly advised my father to quit the house. But he constantly answered: " No; let the Devil flee from me : I will never flee from the Devil.