 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 550 trang
...lists, and kept watch during the night. VOL. i. N CHAPTER 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 Ban-abas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. Jew of... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1825 - 456 trang
...Lodowick. [Exeunt. ACT II. Enter BARABAS with a light. Barabas. 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 Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians. The incertain... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1826 - 354 trang
...[Exeunt. ACT THE SECOND. SCENE I. Enter BARABAS, with a light. BAR. Thus like the sad presaging raven that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak,...silent night •Doth shake contagion from her sable wings; Vex'd and tormented runs poor Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians. The uncertain... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1826 - 1070 trang
...ACT THE SECOND. SCENE I. Enter BAR ABAS, icith a light. BAR. 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 Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians. The uncertain... | |
 | 1829 - 390 trang
...grief to marble, and appear'd Her own pale monument FESTON. 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. The Jew of Malta. MARLOW. As I have been a vulture to thy heart, So will I be a raven to thy... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 426 trang
...thereby announced. Thus Marlowe, in the Jew of Malta, as cited by Malone: — The sad presaging raven tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak ;...wing. But it is the province of philosophy to dispel these illusions which bewilder the mind, by pointing out the simple truths which nature has been at... | |
 | 1831 - 470 trang
...raven tolls The sir.¡i man's paseport in her bollnw htak; And, in the shadow of the burnt .ii; bt, Doth shake contagion from her sable wing. But it is the province of philosophy to dispel these illusions which bewilder the mind, by pointing out the simple truths which nature has been at... | |
 | John Payne Collier - 1831 - 526 trang
...post in Ponies ' To thee (Deloney) mourningly doth speake, ' And tells thee of thy hempen tragedie : ' And in the shadow of the silent night ' Doth shake contagion from her sable wings, ' Vex'd and tormented runs poor Barabas, ' With fatal curses towards the Christians. ' The uncertain... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 852 trang
...X. Thus, like the sad pretarinp raven, that toll* The nek man's passport in her hollow beak, And 10 the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wing* ; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barrabns, With fatal curses towards these Christians. Jtutf Malta.... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - 604 trang
...foreboder of dire calamity, disease, or death. Thus one of our earlier poets — " The sad presaging Raven tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak ;...night, Doth shake contagion from her sable wing." No where perhaps more than in our own island did these superstitious notions prevail, till the recent... | |
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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 Doth shake contagion from her sable wings, Vex'd and tormented runs poor Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians. 
