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" And lightly tripping o'er the long flat stones (With nettles skirted, and with moss o'ergrown) That tell in homely phrase who lie below ; Sudden he starts ! and hears, or thinks he hears, The sound of something purring at his heels ; Full fast he flies,... "
Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art - Page 477
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Letters of Literature

John Pinkerton - Literature - 1785 - 532 pages
...hears, The found of fomething purring at his heels. Full faft he flies, and dares not look behind im»j Till out of breath he overtakes his fellows; Who gather...wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghaftly, .^A. That walks at dead of night, or takes bis ftand O'er fome new-open'd grave, and, ftrange...
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The English Parnassus: Being a New Selection of Didactic, Descriptive ...

John Adams - English poetry - 1789 - 376 pages
...Sudden he Harts ! and hears, or thinks he hears, The found of fomething purring at his heel : Full full he flies, and dares not look behind him, Till out...wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghaftly, That walks at dead of night, or takes his ftand O'er fome new-open'd grave ; and, ftrange...
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...! and hears, or thinks he hears, The found of fomcthing purring at his .heels : Full faft he flits, limes, Rivers unknown to fong ; where firft the fun...Indian mountains, or his fetting beam flames on th' A talc Of horrid apparition, tall and ghafily, That walks at dead of night, or takes his ftand O'er fomc...
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Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry ..., Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...ftarts ! and hears, or thinks he hears, The found of fomcthing purring at his heels : Fnllfaft he flics, and dares not look behind him, Till out of breath he overtakes his fcllowjj Who (Mrher round and wonder at the tale Of hoi lid apparition, tall and ghaftly, That walks...
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The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer, Volume 13

James Anderson - Books, Reviews - 1793 - 396 pages
...and hears, or thinks he Vicars, The sound of something purring at his heels. Full fast he flies, aad dares not look behind him, Till, out of breath, he...walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new open'd grave ; and, strange to tell ! livaniihes at ctowing or the cock *. See yonder hallow'd...
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Roach's Beauties of the Modern Poets of Great Britain: Carefully Selected ...

James Roach - English poetry - 1792 - 284 pages
...hears, The found of fomcthing purring at his heels. Full fafl he flies, and dares not look behind hirn, Till out of breath he overtakes his fellows ; Who...wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghaflly, That walks at dead of night, or takes his flan J O'er fome new open'd grave ; and, flrange...
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The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer, Volume 13

James Anderson - Books, Reviews - 1793 - 412 pages
...Sudden he starts and hears,' or thinks he hears, The sound oi something purring at his heels. Full fast he flies, and dares not look behind him, Till, out...wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghaitly, That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new open'd grave i and, strange...
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Memoirs of the Forty-five First Years of the Life of James Lackington, the ...

James Lackington - Booksellers and bookselling - 1795 - 562 pages
...doctor was fo ftudious and abfent, that he knew not what he had done. Yours, &c. C 4 LETTER LETTER IV. " Who gather round, and wonder at the tale «' Of horrid apparition, tall and ghaftly, " That walks at dead of night, or takes his ftand, " O'er fome new-open'd grave : and (ftrange...
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Poems, Moral, Elegant and Pathetic: Vis. Essay on Man

1796 - 246 pages
...hears— The found of fomething purring at his heels : Full faft he flies, and dares not look behind, Till out of breath he overtakes his fellows, Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrrd apparition, tall and ghaftly, That walks at dead of night, or takes his ltand O'erfome new open'd...
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The Beauties of the Poets:: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry ...

English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...he starts, and hears, or tfi(tiki'\ve hears, The sound of something purring at his heels; Full fast he flies, and dares not look behind him, Till, out of breath, he overtakes his fellows, Who gather found, ar.d wonder at the tale i > I ' * Of horrid apparition, tall a'ud ghastfy, ' Tha^'walks at'...
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