| Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1857 - 586 pages
...and there was on absolute silence. The coffin, placed on a kind of altar covered with block cloth, sank down so slowly through the floor, that it was...measuring its progress by some brilliant object beyond that any motion could be perceived. I had fallen into a sort of torpid reverie, when I was recalled... | |
| Spiritualism - 1864 - 1164 pages
...after the pathetic Miserere of Mozart, the music ceased, and there was an absolute silence. The coffin, placed on a kind of altar covered with black cloth...covered the pavement), sank down so slowly through the door, that it wu only in measuring its progress by some brilliant object beyond it that any motion... | |
| John Timbs - Death - 1861 - 314 pages
...after tho pathetic Miserere of Mozart, the music ceased, and there was an absolute silence. The coffin, placed on a kind of altar covered with black cloth...torpid reverie, when I was recalled to consciousness by a paroxysm of violent grief on the part of the bereaved husband, as his eye suddenly caught the... | |
| Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 880 pages
...the pathetic" Miserere of Mozart, the music ceased, and there was an absolute silence. The coffin, placed on a kind of altar covered with black cloth...torpid reverie, when I was recalled to consciousness by a paroxysm of violent grief on the part of the bereaved husband, as his eye suddenly caught the... | |
| John Timbs - 1873 - 378 pages
...the pathetic ' Miserere ' of Mozart, the music ceased, and there was an absolute silence. The coffin, placed on a kind of altar covered with black cloth...torpid reverie, when I was recalled to consciousness by a paroxysm of violent grief on the part of the bereaved husband, as his eye suddenly caught the... | |
| Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1883 - 862 pages
...after the pathetic Miserere of Mozart, the music ceased, and there was an absolute silence. The coffin, placed on a kind of altar covered with black cloth...torpid reverie, when I was recalled to consciousness by a paroxysm of violent grief on the part of the bereaved husband, as his eye suddenly caught the... | |
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