Ghosts

Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow,And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!

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Where entity and quiddity,The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.

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Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

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When thoroughly reliable people encounter ghosts, their stories are difficult to explain away.

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So many ghosts, and forms of fright,I will go down to the chapel and pray.

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Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

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For spirits when they pleaseCan either sex assume, or both.

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Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?

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All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear,Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare.

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What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shadeInvites my steps, and points to yonder glade?

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The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted deadDid squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.

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There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave.To tell us this.

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I can call spirits from the vasty deep.But will they come when you do call for them?

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What are these,And yet are on 't?

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Is this a dagger which I see before me,The handle toward my hand?

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A dagger of the mind, a false creation,Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

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Now it is the time of night,In the church-way paths to glide.

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Ghosts don’t do things to you. Ghosts make you do unspeakable things to yourself.

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I kept on ignoring him. The dead are only ghosts, after all.

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All on my own I’m not alive, I’m not alive enough.

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Here’s to the ghost Screaming down at us

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Who gather round, and wonder at the taleEvanishes at crowing of the cock.

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The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she.

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The unexpected disappearance of Mr. Canning from the scene, followed by the transient and embarrassed phantom of Lord Goderich. (Quoted, "He flits across the stage a transient and embarrassed phantom.")

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Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts.

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My people too were scared with eerie sounds,Her, bending by the cradle of her babe.

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I look for ghosts; but none will force Between the living and the dead.

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