 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 páginas
...was one That earth refused to keep ; Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep. " So wills the fierce avenging sprite, Till blood for...rotted off his flesh — The world shall see his bones. " Oh God, that horrid, horrid dream Besets me now awake ! Again — again, with a dizzy brain, The... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1853 - 324 páginas
...As soon as the mid-day task was done, In secret I was there : And a mighty wind had swept the leaves And still the corse was bare ! XXXI. " Then down I...rotted off his flesh— The world shall see his bones! XXXIII. " Oh God, that horrid, horrid dream Besets me now awake! Again—again, with a dizzy brain,... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 páginas
...was one That earth refused to keep ; Or land or sea, though he should bo Ten thousand fathoms deep. " So wills the fierce avenging sprite, Till blood for...rotted off his flesh, — The world shall see his bones ! "Oh, God ! that horrid, horrid dream Besets me now awake ! Again — again, with dizzy brain, The... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 424 páginas
...was one That earth refused to keep : Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep. " So wills the fierce avenging Sprite, Till blood for blood atones ! Ay, though he 's buried in a cave, And trodden down with stones, And years have rotted off his flesh, — The... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 páginas
...was one That earth refused to keep : Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep. " So wills the fierce avenging Sprite, Till blood for blood atones ! Ay, though he 's buried in a cave, And trodden down with stones, And years have rotted off his flesh, — The... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 456 páginas
...was one That earth refused to keep; Or land or sea, 'though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep ! "So wills the fierce avenging sprite, Till blood for...rotted off his flesh — The world shall see his bones ! " Oh God, that horrid, horrid dream Besets me now awake ! Again — again, with a dizzy brain The... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 páginas
...was one That earth refused to keep ; Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep ! "So wills the fierce avenging sprite, Till blood for blood atones ? Ay, though he's buried iu a cave, And trodden down with stones, And years have rotted off his flesh—- The world shall see... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 páginas
...was one That earth refused to keep : Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep. " So wills the fierce avenging Sprite, Till blood for...rotted off his flesh, — The world shall see his bones ! " Oh God ! that horrid, horrid dream Besets me now awake ! Again — again, with dizzy brain, The... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1857 - 420 páginas
...was one That earth refused to keep : Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep. " So wills the fierce avenging Sprite, Till blood for blood atones ! Ay, though he 's buried in a cave, And trodden down with stones, And years have rotted off his flesh, — The... | |
 | 1858 - 664 páginas
...voice Of the blood-avenging sprite; "Thou guilty man ! take up thy dead, And hide it from my sight !" So wills the fierce avenging sprite, Till blood for...rotted off his flesh — The world shall see his bones. Of this terrific power of (he dead to haunt and torment the living, the Bible gives many illustrations,... | |
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Then down I cast me on my face, And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That earth refused to keep: Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep. 
