...the lists, and kept watch during the night. CHAPTER X. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tons The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Both shake contagion from her sable wings ; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barabbag, With fatal curses...

...from two hours to two hours, surrounded the lists, and kept watch during the night. CHAPTER X. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick...from her sable wings; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barabbas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. JEW OP MALTA. THE Disinherited Knight had no...

...Бага. Thus, like the sad-presaging raven, that tolla The sick man's passport in her hollow beak,t And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings, Vei'd and tormented runs poor Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians. Tlie incertain pleasure«...

...can only be regarded as a satire, keen and critical, on Marlowe's petty theft. Again, the lines: " And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings," remind us of: Jew of Malta, act i. sc. 2, " and from their misty jaws Breathe foul contagious darkness...

...obscene bird — "The sad-presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport from her hollow leak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings." Marlow's life was as wild and irregular as his genius, and his 'death at once tragic and deplorable....

...degree. Of the one we sing, " Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove," And of the other, the poet says, " Like the sad presaging Raven, that tolls The sick...night, Doth shake contagion from her sable wings." The raven from the earliest ages has ever and everywhere been odious to the human family ; and his...

...from two hours to two hours, surrounded the lists, and kept watch during the night. CHAPTER TENTH. Tims, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The...silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings ; Vez'd and tormented, runs poor Barabbas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. JEW OF MALTA....

...passages of his Plays. MALONE quotes these fine lines of Marlowe, Jew of Malta, II, i, I : ' Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick...night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings.' 27. PURNELL : lago would attach no importance to that. Othello says that that is unlike his usual wisdom....

...rich a lading, And danced to the music of the winds." Shirley, The Young Admiral, ¡i. 2. 520. " Thus like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick...night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings.'' Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, i. Harpy Celseno chants alone, and threats Disastrous anger and a famine...

...carried contagion with them wherever they appeared. Marlowe, in his Jew of Malta, speaks of — . " the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's...night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings." Hence the curse which Shakespeare puts into the mouth of Caliban : — " As wicked dew as e'er my mother...