 | Jeanie M. Laing - 1885 - 120 pàgines
...spirits of all who were destined to die within the year walking in procession— " "Tie now," replied the village belle, " St Mark's mysterious eve ; And all that old traditions tell I tremblingly believe ; How, when the midnight signal tolls, Along the church-yard green, A mournful train of sentenced... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris - 1890 - 346 pàgines
...practices on the ground that they led to all sorts of dissipation and licentiousness." "fis now, replied the village belle, St. Mark's mysterious eve, And all that old traditions tell I tremblingly believe; How, when the midnight signal tolls, Along the church-yard green, A mournful train of sentenced... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1898 - 470 pàgines
...piece of superstition that James Montgomery refers in his 'Vigil of St. Mark' ' "Tis now,' replied the village belle, ' St. Mark's mysterious Eve ; And all that old traditions tell I tremblingly believe. ' How, when the midnight signal tolls, Along tho churehyard green A mournful train of sentenced... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - 1900 - 582 pàgines
...whispered about that he will not recover, for that such a one who has watched St. Mark's Eve, says so. The superstition is in such force that, if the patients...it, they almost despair of recovery, and many are actually said to have died by the influence of their imaginations on this occasion. ""Tis now,' replied... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1903 - 478 pàgines
...nightly owl or fatal raven. — Ib., Titus Andronicus, ii. 3, 97. ST. MARK'S EVE. " 'Tis now," replied the village belle," " St. Mark's mysterious eve, And all that old traditions tell I tremblingly believe ; How, when the midnight signal tolls Along the churchyard green, A mournful train of sentenced... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt - 1905 - 366 pàgines
...presently whispered about that he will not recover, for that such, or such an one, who | has watched St. Mark's Eve, says so. This superstition is in such...themselves hear of it, they almost despair of recovery. Many are said to have actually died by their imaginary fears on the occasion : a truly lamentable,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1828 - 678 pàgines
...manner, it is presently whispered about that he will not recover, for that such a one, who has watched St. Mark's eve, says so. This superstition is in such...themselves hear of it, they almost despair of recovery. Many are said to have actually died by their imaginary fears on the occasion. Another superstition,... | |
 | 1826 - 504 pàgines
...manner, it is presently whispered about that he will not recover, for such an one, who has watched on St Mark's eve, says so. This superstition is in such force, that if the patients themselves henr of it, they almost despair of recovery, and, no doubt, many have actually died of their imaginary... | |
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St. Mark's Eve, says so. This superstition is in such force, that if the patients themselves hear of it, they almost despair of recovery... 
