| 1878 - 482 Seiten
...and kept watch during the night. CHAPTER X. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that toll) The siek man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow...the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings ; Vexed and tormented runs poor Barrabas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. Jew of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1879 - 232 Seiten
...infection existed. Malone quotes Marlowe, Jew of Malta, ii. I : «Tnus 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 wings." Cf. Davenant, Love and Honour : " So ravens croke When... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1879 - 236 Seiten
...quotes Marlowe, Jew of Malta, ii. I : »' Thus like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick manTs passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night, Does shake contagion from her sable wings." Cf. Davenant, Love and Honour : " So ravens croke When... | |
| William Jones - 1880 - 778 Seiten
...of doleful drere." Marlowe, in his " Rich Jew of Malta," describes " the sadpresaging raven," "That tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak,...the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings." In " Hudibras " we read : " Is it not ominous in all countries Where crows and ravens croak... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 Seiten
...knowest tliou how in the end thou shall be visited.' The warning was Like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak,...the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings. Jem of Malta. The finest compliment paid to the genius of this unfortunate poet was by liis... | |
| Walter Scott - 1880 - 460 Seiten
...during the night. CHAPTER X. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport m her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings ; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Ban-abas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. yew of... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 676 Seiten
...surrounded the lists, and kept watch during the night. CHAP TER X. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak,...the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings ; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barrabas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. Jew of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1882 - 240 Seiten
...infection existed. Malone quotes Marlowe, Jew of Malta, ii. I : "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, Does shake contagion from her sable wings." Cf. Davenant, Lcn<e and Honour : " So ravens croke When... | |
| 1883 - 876 Seiten
...our author does not take cognizance, makes his dreadful Barabbas Like the sad-presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak,...the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings. Coleridge, Byron, Mackay, Shakespeare, Hood, Scott, Macaulay, Campbell, Savage, Dyer, Gay, Phineas... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 574 Seiten
...surrounded the lists, and kept watch during the night. CHAPTER X. " Tims, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak,...the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings ; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barrabas, With fatal curses towards these Christians." — Jew... | |
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