In the silence of the night How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people, They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone,... The National Magazine - Page 74edited by - 1853Full view - About this book
| John Swett - Elocution - 1868 - 246 pages
...tone ! For every sound that floats from the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people—ah, the people; they that dwell up in the steeple All...woman; they are neither brute nor human, They are ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; and he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls, A pasan from the bells !... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell...— They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls : And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A paean from the bells!... | |
| Charles A. Wiley - Elocution - 1869 - 456 pages
...melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats from the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — they that dwell...stone — They are neither man nor woman — they arc neither brute nor human, They are ghouls : And their king it is who tolls ; and he rolls, rolls,... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who toiling, toiling, toiling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart... | |
| Alexander Kennedy Isbister - Elocution - 1870 - 104 pages
...menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats, From the rust within their throats, Is a groan. And the people — ah ! the people — They that dwell...— They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls : And their king it is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls, A ptean from the bells... | |
| Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Elocution - 1870 - 396 pages
...melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell...— They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls : And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Bolls, A paean from the bells... | |
| Literature - 1880 - 996 pages
...Such an image is that of the beings who lend their menace to the tone of the funeral bells : — " The people— ah, the people — They that dwell up...woman, They are neither brute nor human, They are Ghouls." In the same remarkable fantasia the* themselves become human, and « master-stroke that makes... | |
| Alexander Kennedy Isbister - Oratory - 1870 - 420 pages
...! For every sound that floats, From the rust within their throats, Is a groan. And the people—ah! the people— They that dwell up in the steeple All...woman— They are neither brute nor human— They are Ghouls : And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls, A psean from the bells... | |
| Philip Lawrence - English language - 1870 - 422 pages
...rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah ! the people — They that dwell up ill the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling,...woman — They are neither brute nor human — They arc Ghouls : And their king it is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls, A ptean from the bells... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1870 - 416 pages
...melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell...alone, And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muflled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither man nor... | |
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