The Haunters & the Haunted: Ghost Stories and Tales of the SupernaturalErnest Rhys D. O'Connor, 1921 - 394 páginas |
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The Haunters & the Haunted: Ghost Stories and Tales of the Supernatural Ernest Rhys Visualização integral - 1921 |
The Haunters & the Haunted: Ghost Stories and Tales of the Supernatural Ernest Rhys Visualização integral - 1921 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Aberystruth apparition appeared Bartley became Boscean brother Buckland Abbey called Castle Clerk Saunders Corby Castle corpse Croglin dark dead death door Dougal dreadful Duchess of Gloucester ELEANOR COBHAM eyes Ezekiel face father fear fell felt gaze ghost girl Glamis Castle gudesire hair hand haunted head heard horse hour knew lady Laird Lenine Lianhan Shee light living looked Lord Ludgvan M'Pherson mind morning mother mysterious Nancy never night pale parish passed person Prebendary Ravenna Redgauntlet replied Rosewarne round Sarah Polgrain seemed seen Sertorius servant Sir John Sir Robert sleep Smithills Hall sound speak spectre spirit spoke Steenie stood story strange stranger Sullivan Teig tell terror thing thou thought told took Trenoweth turned utter voice walked wall weel wife window woman words Yorkshire Jack young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 17 - DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country ; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
Página 28 - But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn! — for never morrow Shall dawn upon him, desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.
Página 27 - Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago) And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odor went away.
Página 29 - ... spoke,) in the gradual yet certain condensation of an atmosphere of their own about the waters and the walls. The result was discoverable, he added, in that silent, yet importunate and terrible influence which for centuries had moulded the destinies of his family, and which made him what I now saw him — what he was. Such opinions need no comment, and I will make none. Our books — the books which, for years, had formed no small portion of the mental existence of the invalid — were, as might...
Página 132 - ... in the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning ! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Página 19 - I was aware, however, that his very ancient family had been noted, time out of mind, for a peculiar sensibility of temperament, displaying itself, through long ages, in many works of exalted art, and manifested, of late, in repeated deeds of munificent yet unobtrusive charity, as well as in a passionate devotion to the intricacies, perhaps even more than to the orthodox and easily recognisable beauties, of musical science.
Página 232 - I wuss ye joy, sir, of the head seat, and the white loaf, and the braid lairdship. Your father was a kind man to friends and followers; muckle grace to you, Sir John, to fill his shoon — his boots, I suld say, for he seldom wore shoon, unless it were muils when he had the gout.
Página 29 - I well remember that suggestions arising from this ballad, led us into a train of thought wherein there became manifest an opinion of Usher's which I mention not so much on account of its novelty, (for other men * have thought thus,) as on account of the pertinacity with which he maintained it.
Página 225 - YE maun have heard of Sir Robert Redgauntlet of that Ilk, who lived in these parts before the dear years. The country will lang mind him ; and our fathers used to draw breath thick if ever they heard him named. He was out wi' the Hielandmen in Montrose's time; and again he was in the hills wi...
Página 228 - ... incarnate. Weel, my gudesire was nae manager — no that he was a very great misguider — but he hadna the saving gift, and he got twa terms' rent in arrear. He got the first brash at Whitsunday put ower wi...