 Risen from the grave to ease the heavy guilt Of deeds in life conceal'd ; of shapes that walk At dead of night, and clank their chains, and wave The torch of hell around the murderer's bed. At every solemn pause the crowd recoil, Gazing each other speechless,...  Practical Education - Page 192by Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1801Full view - About this book
 | Virgil - Poetry - 1778 - 478 pages
...ev'ry folemn paufe the eroud recoil Gazing each other fpecchlefs, and cono-eal'd With fhiv'ring fighs : till eager for th' event, Around the beldame all erect:...they hang, Each trembling heart with grateful terrors qucll'd. 3. BEAUTY. • Brighten1 progeny of heav'n ! How fhall I trace thy features ? where felect... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1744 - 124 pages
...every folemn paufe the crowd recoil Gazing each other fpeechlefs, and congeal'd With ftiivering fighs : .till eager for th' event, Around the beldame all...erect they hang, Each trembling heart with grateful terrorquell'd. 2 -• In thy immortal praife, O form divine ! Smooths her mellifluent ftream. Thee,... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...dead of night, and clank their chains, and war* The torch of hell around the murd'rer's bed. At ev'ry solemn pause the crowd recoil, Gazing each other speechless,...th' event, Around the beldame all erect they hang, £ach trembling heart .mill grateful terrors quell'iL * In reading this passage the voice ought to... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...dead of night, and clank their chains, andwav« The torch of hell around the murd'rer's bed. At ev'ry solemn pause the crowd recoil Gazing each other speechless...congeal'd "With shiv'ring sighs: till eager for th' event j Around the belldame all erect they hang , Each trembling heart with gratuful terrors quell'd. AKENSIDEI... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1804 - 206 pages
...murd'rer's bed : 265 At ev'ry solemn pause the crowd recoil, Gazing each other speechless, and congeal'd Around the beldame all erect they hang, Each trembling heart with grateful terrors quell'd. But lo ! disclos'd in all her smiling pomp, 271 Where Beauty onward moving claims the verse Her charms... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...around the murd'rer's bed. At ev'ry solemn: pause the crowd recoil Gazing each other speechless, aad congeal'd With shiv'ring sighs : till eager for th'...event,. Around the beldame all erect they hang, Each tren'blini; heart with grateful terrors quell'dj The PAIN arising from VIRTUOUS EMOTIONSattended with... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...their chains/ and wave The torch of hell around the murd'rer's bed. At every solemn pause the croud recoil Gazing each other speechless, and congeal'd...Each trembling heart with grateful terrors quell'd. AKENSIDE. CHAP. XXXII. PHILANTHROPY. WHEN erst contagion with mephitic breath ' And wither'd famine... | |
 | Mark Akenside, Thomas Park - 1808 - 358 pages
...crowd recoil, Gazing each other speechless, and congeal'd With shivering sighs : till eager for the' event, Around the beldame all erect they hang, Each trembling heart with grateful terrors quell'd. But lo! disclos'd in all her smiling pomp, Where Beauty onward moving claims the verse Her charms inspire... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...recoil Gazing each other speechless, and congeal'd With shivering sighs : till eager for the event, a 4 Around the beldame all erect they hang, Each trembling heart with grateful terrors quell'd. But lo! disclos'd in all her smiling pomp, Where beauty onward moving claims the verse Her charms inspire... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1810 - 510 pages
...of Night, and clank their Chains and ware The Torch of Hell around the Murd'rer't Bed. • At ev'ry solemn Pause the Crowd recoil, Gazing each other speechless,...Each trembling Heart with grateful Terrors quell'd I Book I. Little can be added to what our Author has adDoctrine : Yet while others are boasting with... | |
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