 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.  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 2631818Full view - About this book
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...So, in Marlowe's Jew of Malta, 1633 : K iij " Thu» " 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 " Does shake contagion from her sable wing." MALONE. 32. Cvnvinc'd or supplied them,} \ cannot understand... | |
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...was infection. So, in Marlowe's Jew of Malta, 1633: " 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 " Does shake contagion from her sable wing." lago. What, it I had said, I had seen him do you wrong... | |
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...[Exeunt. ACT II. Enter BARABAS, with a light. Bar. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that The sirk man's passport in her hollow beak ; And in the shadow...silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings ; Vexed and tormented runs poor Barabas, With fatal curses, towards these Christians. T1|£ uncertain... | |
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...Lodowiclc. [Eieunt. ACT II. Enter BARABAS, with a light. Str. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak ; And in the shadow or' the silent night D«th shake contagion from her sable wings ; Vexed and tormented runs poor Barabas,... | |
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 | 1818 - 806 pages
...bring him the concealed remnant of his treasures. " Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in...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... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 442 pages
...thereby announced. Thus Marlowe, in the Jew of Malta, as cited by Malone: " The sad presaging Rmen tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in...the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wing." But it is the province of philosophy to dispel those illusions which bewilder the mind, by pointing... | |
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...the lists, and kept watch during the night. CHAPTER X. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in...silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings ; Vux'd and tormented, runs poor Barrabas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. Jew of Malta.... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pages
...there. She does so, and agrees to meet him at night. " Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in...Barabas, With fatal curses, towards these Christians. The uncertain pleasures of swift-footed time Have ta'en their flight, and left me in. despair, And... | |
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...there. She does so, and agrees to meet him at night " Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in...Barabas, With fatal curses, towards these Christians. The uncertain pleasures of swift-footed time Have ta'en their flight, and left me in despair, And of... | |
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