...the doctors, those " Sad presaging ravens that toll The sick man's passport in their lengthy bills, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from their sable wings." It was Poppleton : but how changed ! There was a jauntiness in his air, a confidence...

...passages THE RAVEN. which prove it to have been regarded as a bird of dire omen. " The sad presaging Raven tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak,...the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wing." Marlowe. In the judgment of others, its friendly mission to the Tishbite invested it with a...

...intervals, from two hours to two hours, surrounded the lists, and kept watch during the night. CHAPTER XI. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport iu her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent uight Doth shako contagion from her sablu wings...

...the lists, and kept watch during the night. CHAPTER X. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tons The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Both shake contagion from her sable wings ; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barabbag, With fatal curses...

...intervals, from two hours to two hours, surrounded the lists, and kept watch during the night. CHAPTER X. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The...from her sable wings; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barabbas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. JEW OP MALTA. THE Disinherited Knight had no...

...can only be regarded as a satire, keen and critical, on Marlowe's petty theft. Again, the lines: " And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings," remind us of: Jew of Malta, act i. sc. 2, " and from their misty jaws Breathe foul contagious darkness...

...Бага. Thus, like the sad-presaging raven, that tolla The sick man's passport in her hollow beak,t And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings, Vei'd and tormented runs poor Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians. Tlie incertain pleasure«...

...obscene bird — "The sad-presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport from her hollow leak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings." Marlow's life was as wild and irregular as his genius, and his 'death at once tragic and deplorable....

...degree. Of the one we sing, " Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove," And of the other, the poet says, " Like the sad presaging Raven, that tolls The sick...night, Doth shake contagion from her sable wings." The raven from the earliest ages has ever and everywhere been odious to the human family ; and his...

...two hours to two hours, surrounded the lists, and kept watch during the night. CHAPTER TENTH. Tims, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick...silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings ; Vez'd and tormented, runs poor Barabbas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. JEW OF MALTA....