 | Great Britain - 1829 - 696 pages
...though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep. So wills the fierce avenging Sprite, Till blood with blood atones ! Ay, though he's buried in a cave, And...rotted off his flesh — The world shall see his bones ! 1829.] Comments on Corpulency, Sfe . 25 O God ! that horrid, horrid dream Besets me now awake ! Again,... | |
 | 1828 - 514 pages
...was one That earth refused to keep ; Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep ! So wills the fierce avenging sprite, Till blood for...though he's buried in a cave, And trodden down with atones, And years have rotted off his flesh — The world shall see his bones ! Oh God, that horrid,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1831 - 80 pages
...was one That earth refused to keep : Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep. " So wills the fierce avenging Sprite, Till blood for...rotted off his flesh, — The world shall see his bones ! " Oh, God ! that horrid, horrid dream Besets me now awake ! Again — again, with dizzy brain, The... | |
 | Periodicals - 1836 - 706 pages
...should be Ten thousand fathoms deep! ' So wills the fierce avenging sprite, TtU blood for blood atone»! Ay, though he's buried in a cave. And trodden down with stones ; And years have rotted off his fleah — The world shall sec his bones! 'Oh God, that horrid, horrid dream Besets me now awake ! Aguiu... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 pages
...one That earth refused to keep ; Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep ! " So wills the fierce avenging sprite, Till blood for...rotted off his flesh — The world shall see his bones ! " O God, that horrid, horrid dream Besets me now awake ! Again — again with a dizzy brain, The... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...refused to keep ; Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep. " ' So wilU the fii-rce avenging Sprite, Till blood for blood atones ! Ay,...years have rotted off* his flesh — The world shall gee his bones ! " ' Oh, God ! that horrid, horrid dream Besets me now awake ! Again — again, with... | |
 | 1893 - 844 pages
...der Berliner Akademie der Wisaewckaften, ' p. 363. From Blackwood's Magazine. THE RESTLESS DEAD. " Ay ! though he's buried in a cave, And trodden down...rotted off his flesh, The world shall see his bones." HOOD : The Dream of Euitene Aram. [Five years before the date of this story, George Woodfall, a wealthy... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...was one That earth refused to keep; Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep ! " So wills the fierce avenging sprite, Till blood for...rotted off his flesh — The world shall see his bones ! " O God, that horrid, horrid dream Besets me now awake ! Again — again, with a dizzy brain, The... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...refused to keep ; Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep ! . .- ' * ^. • •. " So wills the fierce avenging sprite Till blood for blood atones ! Ay, though he 's buried in a cave, . And trodden down with stones, And years have rotted off his flesh — The... | |
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Then down I cast me on my face, And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That earth refused to keep: Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep. 
