In the alcoves of death, in the charnels of time, Where flit the dark spectres of passion and crime, There are triumphs untold, there are martyrs unsung, There are heroes yet silent to speak with his tongue!
Ah, Lord of life, though spectres pale Fill with their threats the shadowy vale, With Thee my faltering steps to aid, How can I dare to be afraid?
In the alcoves of death, in the charnels of time, Where flit the gaunt spectres of passion and crime, There are triumphs untold, there are martyrs unsung, There are heroes yet silent to speak with his tongue!
More like spectres than living men, their haggard looks, bloodshot eyes, and shaking limbs, their clothing hanging about them in shreds, announced the hardships of that long and terrible march but too plainly.
It seemed to his overwrought nerves that they must for ever be haunted by the horrible spectres evolved by Miss Dick, and by the memory of her terror-stricken eyes and tear-stained face.
The trouble and annoyance from the spectres had now reached so serious a pitch that, by the advice of a maternal uncle, Kiartan instituted judicial measures against the spectres.
This feeling acting on the minds of the superstitious and ignorant, has led them to people with spectres all those places which have obtained notoriety from being the scene of some terrible ebullition of human frailty and wickedness.
The number of these spectresnext began to diminish, and by the time he was fifteen years of age, but one remained, and this appeared only occasionally.
Don Quixote dwells on the heights of a chivalric Parnassus, a land of magic peopled by the spectres and shadows which he has encountered in the books with which his library is so well furnished.
Spectres and Apparitions As might be imagined, the strong vein of superstition in the Spanish character, if subdued to some extent by the harsh dictates of the Holy Office, yet rose triumphant in other spheres of occult belief.
Lights that precede Funereal Destinies, Ev'n as the Spectres of the Sun, before He rises from the dearth of Arctic seas?
The undistinguished terrors of a dream, Now clear, now dim, transform'd from shape to shape, The gibbering spectres scare us and escape.
Cruel Proserpine is sending All her spectres pale to me; Ever on my steps attending Those dread shadowy forms I see.
To the right and left, the bare cones of the barren peaks rose in multitude, with their calm, awful forms shrouded in snow, and their dark shadows reflected far into the valleys, like spectres from a chaotic world.
The spectres seemed to see and welcome them: perhaps they knew all about the Little Ones, for they had themselves long been on their way back to childhood!
This damsel, however, had the discretion to accuse nobody, the spectres that beset her being all veiled.
These will have it, that the Mohocks are like those Spectres and Apparitions which frighten several Towns and Villages in her Majesty's Dominions, tho they were never seen by any of the Inhabitants.
Reluctantly, Newlin followed--caught as much by curiosity as driven by the yelping spectres of pursuit.
Storming, eery colors flowed infinite mutations of form through the crystal spectres of the maze.
Spectres yet are occasionally to be seen within its precincts.
The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway, but suffers them to break forth, affrighting this actual life with secrets that perchance belong to a deeper one.
Even when this dismal and inevitable change had taken place, the young man might still have continued to quaff the cup of enchantments, though its vapor did but shroud life in gloom and fill the gloom with spectres that mocked at him.
Their bodies, exposed to the rays of the most burning sun and the most severe cold, besides being attenuated by long fasts, resemble walking spectres who have arisen from the dust of their sepulchres.
Now, at length, surely, as all stands ready in the hall for the dance, God will let no cold spectres or frightful masks creep in, I pray.
Albano readily devoted to him his own well nights, yet could not drive away any of his friend's dreams, thosespectres which generally flee or sink before the living.
The people of Newburgh believe that the spectres of these criminals still haunt the ruined cross, and claim that mercy for their souls which they had failed to obtain for their mortal existence.
In fine, I consider this grand objection, as a mere pretext for terrifying you, like children, with spectres and hobgoblins.
This is the mere phrenzy of declamation, the ridiculous conjuration of spectres and hobgobblins!
I feel as if invisible spectres haunted this place.
Frozen bread was his food for days together, and the absence of warm aliments brought him face to face with the terrible spectres of cold and hunger.
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