 The lower part of the castle was hollowed into several intricate cloisters; and it was not easy for one under so much anxiety to find the door that opened into the cavern. An awful silence reigned throughout those subterraneous regions, except now and...  The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story - Page 279by Clara Reeve - 1883 - 405 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 500 pages
...one, under so much anxiety, to find the door that opened into the cavern. An awful silence reigned throughout those subterraneous regions, except now...darkness. Every murmur struck her with new terror." Having found the door, she entered the vault, and "it gave her a kind of momentary joy to perceive... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 498 pages
...one, under so much anxiety, to find the door that opened into the cavern. An awful silence reigned throughout those subterraneous regions, except now...darkness. Every murmur struck her with new terror." Having found the deor, she entered the vault, and "it gave her a kind of momentary joy to perceive... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 478 pages
...secret trap-door, with iron ring, by which Isabella sought to make her escape. "An awful silence reigned throughout those subterraneous regions, except now...re-echoed through that long labyrinth of darkness. The wind extinguished her candle, but an imperfect ray of clouded moonshine gleamed through a cranny... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...for one under so much anxiety to find the door that opened into the cavern. An awful silence reigned rge Benjamin on knowing she was within reach of somereechoed through that long labyrinth of body, she knew not whom,... | |
 | Einar Nylén - English literature - 1924 - 320 pages
...Romance of The Forest, 19o4, s. 159 f. 2) T. ex. Isabellas flykt genom slottets underjordiska gångar: »Every murmur struck her with new terror; — yet more she dreaded to hear the wrathf ul voice of Manfred urging his domestics to pursue her. She trod as softly as impatience ivould... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1928 - 444 pages
...noir : an awful silence reigned throughout those subterranean regions, except now and then some blast of wind, that shook the doors she had passed, and which, grating on the rusty hinges, re-echoed through the long labyrinth of darkness. These evocations, and not the huge helmet and the... | |
 | E.F. Bleiler - Fiction - 1966 - 356 pages
...one, under so much anxiety, to find the door that opened into the cavern. An awful silence reigned throughout those subterraneous regions, except, now...re-echoed through that long labyrinth of darkness. Everv murmur struck her with new terror; yet more she dreaded to hear the wrathful voice of Manfred,... | |
 | Gary Hoppenstand - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 146 pages
...for one under so much anxiety to find the door that opened into the cavern. An awful silence reigned throughout those subterraneous regions, except now...then some blasts of wind that shook the doors she [Isabella] had passed, and which grating on the rusty hinges were reechoed through that long labyrinth... | |
 | George E. Haggerty - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 216 pages
...to fmd the door that opened into the cavern. An awful silence reigned throughout those subterranean regions, except now and then some blasts of wind that...voice of Manfred urging his domestics to pursue her. (25) Walpole here uses techniques which Burke and his contemporaries would have recognized — darkness,... | |
 | R. R. Agrawal - Art - 1990 - 316 pages
...for one under so much anxiety to find the door that opened into the cavern. An awful silence reigned throughout those subterraneous regions, except now...hinges, were re-echoed through that long labyrinth of darkness.68 This setting is aptly matched with the Gothic machinery. The feudal tyrant, the forlorn... | |
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