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. Macmillan's Magazine - Page 5091874Full view - About this book
| Walter Scott - Anglo-Saxons - 1895 - 544 pages
...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 Barabbas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. The Jew of Malta.... | |
| Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 560 pages
...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; Vexed and tormented runs poor Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians. The uncertain pleasures... | |
| Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1900 - 516 pages
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...Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the ; Vexed and tormented runs poor Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians. The uncertain pleasures... | |
| Kurt Schau - 1901 - 112 pages
...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. J И Anfang, ß) die Abstrakta virtue : For virtue is the fount... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1902 - 868 pages
...Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the ll be as patient as a gentle stream, And make a pastime of each wear ; Vexed and tormented runs poor Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians. The uncertain pleasures... | |
| Vincent Stuckey Lean - Proverbs - 1903 - 478 pages
...RAVEN. Like the sad presaging raven that tells The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings. Marlowe, Jew of Malta, ii. The raven croak'd as she sat at her meal, And the old woman knew what she... | |
| John Addington Symonds - Drama - 1904 - 580 pages
...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. The incertain pleasures... | |
| William Henry Williams - English drama - 1905 - 600 pages
...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, Vexed and tormented runs poor Barabas 5 With fatal curses towards these Christians. The incertain pleasures... | |
| Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1906 - 568 pages
...Thus, like the sad presaging raven, tliat 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 Barabbas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. JEW OF MALTA.... | |
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