 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
 | Malcolm Miles Kelsall - Social Science - 1981 - 216 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... Now Phoebus ope the eye-lids of the day, And for the raven wake the morning lark... Because these lines... | |
 | Millar MacLure - English drama - 1995 - 219 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, &c. The next speech... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - Drama - 2000 - 564 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... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 216 pages
...Thus like the sad presaging Rauen that tolls The sicke mans passeport in her hollow beake, And in the shadow of the silent night, Doth shake contagion from her sable wings . . . (lines 640-3) Even closer, I think, are these lines from the final speech of Bajazeth in i Tamburlaine:... | |
 | Walter Scott - Fiction - 2006 - 422 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 Barrabas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. - Jew of Malta... | |
 | American periodicals - 1883 - 892 pages
...Barabbas 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. Coleridge, Byron, Mackay, Shakespeare, Hood, Scott, Macaulay, £ampbell, Savage, Dyer, Gay, Phineas... | |
 | 1915 - 844 pages
.... . 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 incertain pleasures... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1960 - 248 pages
...refers to 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. In l. 248 is a direct reminiscence of this passage, applied, however, not to the raven but the vulture.... | |
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