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" Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings, Vex'd and tormented runs poor Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians. "
Blackwood's Magazine - Page 263
1818
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Ivanhoe. Author's unabridged ed

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 574 pages
...lists, and kept watch during the night. CHAPTER X. " Tims, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in...from her sable wings ; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barrabas, With fatal curses towards these Christians." — Jew of Malta. Disinherited Knight had no...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science ..., Volume 38; Volume 101

American literature - 1883 - 876 pages
...author does not take cognizance, makes his dreadful Barabbas Like the sad-presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in...silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings. Coleridge, Byron, Mackay, Shakespeare, Hood, Scott, Macaulay, Campbell, Savage, Dyer, Gay, Phineas...
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The tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, ed. with notes by R. Mongan

William Shakespeare - 1883 - 200 pages
...infection. Malone quotes Marlowe, Jew of Malta, ii. 1 :— " Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Does shake contagion from her sable wings." 20. That's not so good now. Meaning that Iago's words,...
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Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama, Volume 4

John Addington Symonds - English drama - 1884 - 696 pages
...the occasion for heightening his avarice to passion : Thus, like the sad-presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in...Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians. The incertain pleasures of swift-footed time Have ta'en their flight, and left me in despair ; And...
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Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama, Volume 4

John Addington Symonds - English drama - 1884 - 706 pages
...the occasion for heightening his avarice to passion : Thus, like the sad-presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in...from her sable wings, Vex'd and tormented runs poor Harabas With fatal curses towards these Christians. The incertain pleasures of swift-footed time Have...
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Dramatic Works, Selected

Christopher Marlowe - 1885 - 250 pages
...37 THE JEW AND HIS DAUGHTER. ACT II., SCENE 1. Sara. Thus, like the sad -presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in...Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians. The incertain pleasures of swift-footed time Have ta'en their flight, and left me in despair ; And...
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The Dramatic Works of Christopher Marlowe: (Selected.) With a Prefatory ...

Christopher Marlowe, Percy Pinkerton - English drama - 1885 - 354 pages
...DAUGHTER. ACT II., SCENE 1. Earn. Tims, like the sad -presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's |tass|inrt in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent...runs poor Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christiana. The incertain pleasures of swift-footed time Have ta'en their flight, and left me in despair...
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The Works of Christopher Marlowe: The Jew of Malta. Edward II. The massacre ...

Christopher Marlowe - 1885 - 396 pages
...SECOND. SCENE I. Enter l BARABAS with a light. Bar. Thus,2 like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in...silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings ; Vexed and tormented runs poor Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians. The uncertain pleasures...
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Provincial Names and Folk Lore of British Birds, Volume 32

Charles Swainson - Birds - 1885 - 268 pages
...bringing infection. So Marlowe, in the Jem of Malta, speaks of " The sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak ; And in...the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wing." And in the Tempest, Act I., sc. ii, Caliban says— " As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed...
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Provincial Names and Folk Lore of British Birds

Charles Swainson - Birds - 1885 - 266 pages
...bringing infection. -So Marlowe, in the Jew of Malta, speaks of " The sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak ; And in...shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from fyer sable wing." And in the Tempest, Act I., sc. ii, Caliban says— " As wicked dew as e'er my mother...
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