| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...loud," howling through the vacant lobbies, and clattering the doors of deserted guard-rooms, appal the imagination, and conjure up the grim spectres of departed...dead, and still more frightful silence would reign in this desert, if every now and then the tacking of hammers did not announce, that those constant attendants... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 466 pages
...departed tyrants — the Saxon, the Norman, and the Dane ; the stern Edwards and fierce Henrys — who stalk from desolation to desolation, through the...subsides, a dead, and still more frightful silence ^vould reign in this desert, if every now and then the tacking of hammers did not announce, that those... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 468 pages
...loud," howling through the vacant lobbies, and clattering the doors of deserted guard rooms, appal the imagination, and conjure up the grim spectres of departed...Norman, and the Dane ; the stern Edwards and fierce Henrys — who stalk from desolation to desolation, through the dreary vacuity, and melancholy succession... | |
| Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...loud" howling through the vacant lobbies, and clattering the doors of deserted guard-rooms, appal' the imagination, and conjure up the grim spectres of departed tyrants, the Saxon, the Norman, and the Pane, the stern EDWARDs, and fierce HENRIES, who stalk from desolation to desolation, through the dreary... | |
| William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...loud," howling through the vacant lobbies, and clattering the doors of deserted guard-rooms, appal the imagination, and conjure up the grim spectres of departed...Saxon, the Norman, and the Dane ; the stern Edwards and the fierce Henrys — who stalk from desolation to desolation, through the dreary vacuity, and melancholy... | |
| Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - Oratory - 1810 - 514 pages
...loud" howling through the vacant lobbies, and clattering the doors of deserted guard-rooms, appal the imagination, and conjure up the grim spectres of departed...dead and still more frightful silence would reign in this desert, if every now and then the tacking of hammers did not announce that those constant attendants,... | |
| William Hazlitt - Orators - 1810 - 612 pages
...Edwards and the fierce Henrys—whc stalk from desolation to desolation, through the dreary vacuky, and melancholy succession of chill and comfortless...dead, and still more frightful silence would reign in this desert, if every now and then the tacking of hammers did not announce, that those constant attendants... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1811 - 520 pages
...clattering the doors of deserted guard-rooms, appal the imagination, and conjure up the grim spirits of departed tyrants, the Saxon, the Norman, and the...melancholy succession of chill and comfortless chambers." VOL, ir. 2 i And this was helped on by Madam Pride, and my dies Hewson, and Berkstead, Goff, WhalJey,... | |
| Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1811 - 536 pages
...clattering the doors of deserted guard-rooms, appal the imagination, and conjure up the grim spirits of departed tyrants, the Saxon, the Norman, and the Dane, the stern Edwards and fierce Henries-r-who stalk from desolation to desolation through the dreary vacuity and melancholy succession... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1814 - 730 pages
...loud," howling through the vacant lobbies, and clattering the doors of deserted guardrooms, appal the imagination, and conjure up the grim spectres of departed...desolation, through the dreary vacuity, and melancholy «accession of chill and comfortless chambers. When this tumult subsides, a dead, and still more frightful... | |
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