 | Robert Bloomfield - Country life in literature - 1802 - 166 pages
...: For, where the path was bare, The trotting Ghost kept on the same ! She mutter'd many a pray'r. 9 Yet once again, amidst her fright She tried what sight...cheating glooms of night, A MONSTER stood in view. 10 Regardless of whate'er she felt, It follow'd down the plain ! She own'd her sins, and down she knelt,... | |
 | Hunting - 1802 - 422 pages
...: For, where the path was bare, The trotting Ghost kept on the same ! She mutter'd many a pray'r ! Yet once again, amidst her fright, She tried what sight could do ; When thro' the cheating glooms of night, A MONSTER stood in view. Regardless of whatc'er she felt, It follow'd... | |
 | Robert Bloomfield - Country life - 1805 - 176 pages
...tried what sight could do ; When through the cheating glooms of night, A MONSTER stood in view. 10 Regardless of whate'er she felt, It follow'd down the plain ! She own'd her sins, and down she kneltT And said her pray'rs again. 11 Then on she sped, and Hope grew strong, The white park gate in... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - Apparitions - 1814 - 240 pages
...For, where the path was bare, The trotting ghost kept on the same! She mutter'd many a pray'r. Yet Yet once again, amidst her fright She tried what sight...Then on she sped ; and hope grew strong, The white park-gate in view, Which, pushing hard, so long it swung, That ghost and all past through. Loud fell... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...frame : For, where the path was bare, The trotting ghost kept on the same ! She mutter'd many a prayer. Yet once again, amidst her fright, She tried what...Regardless of whate'er she felt, It follow'd down the plain t She own'd her sins, and down she knelt, . And said her prayers again. Then on she sped ; and hope... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - Apparitions - 1815 - 268 pages
...For, where the path was bare, The trotting ghost kept on the same ! She mutter'd many a pray'r. Yet Yet once again, amidst \her fright She tried what...Then on she sped ; and hope grew strong, The white park-gate in view, Which, pushing hard, so long it swung, That ghost and all past through. Loud fell... | |
 | 1842 - 622 pages
...frame ; For, when the path was bare, The trotting Ghost kept on the same ! She mutter'd many a prayer. "Yet once again, amidst her fright, She tried what...cheating glooms of night A monster stood in view. " Then on she sped : and hope grew strong, The white park gate in view ; Which pushing hard, so long... | |
 | African Americans - 1822 - 56 pages
...kept on the same ! She muttered many a prayer. Yet once again, amidst her fright, tried what eight could do ; When through the cheating glooms of night,...stood in view ! Regardless of whate'er she felt, It followed down the plain ! She ownM her sins, and down she knelt, And said her prayers again. Then on... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 434 pages
...frame, For, where the path was bare, The trotting Ghost kept on the same! She mutter'd many a prayer. Yet once again, amidst her fright, She tried what...stood in view. Regardless of whate'er she felt, It followed down the plain! She own'd her sins, and down she knell, And said her prayers again. Then on... | |
 | Poetry - 1827 - 158 pages
...frame: For, where the path was bare, The trotting ghost kept on the same! She mutter'd many a prayer. When through the cheating glooms of night A MONSTER...stood in view. Regardless of whate'er she felt, It followed down the plain ! She own'd her sins, and down she knelt, And said her prayers again. Then... | |
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She turn'd— it stopt !— nought could she see Upon the gloomy plain ; But, as she strove the Sprite to flee, She heard the same again. Now terror seized her quaking frame ; For, where the path was bare. The trotting Ghost kept on the same : She mutter'd... 
