2 résultats pour "clock"

• Christabel (1787)Part I'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock,And the owls have awakened the crowing cock;Tu--whit!

  Christabel (1787) Samuel Coleridge Part I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock, And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu—whit! — Tu—whoo! And hark, again! the crowing cock, How drowsily it crew. Sir Leoline, the Baron rich, Hath a toothless mastiff bitch; From her kennel beneath the rock She maketh answer to the clock, Four for the quarters, and twelve for the hour; Ever and aye, by shine and shower, Sixteen short howls, not over loud; Some say, she sees my lady's shroud. Is the...

• chapitre sur le livre secret of old clock

  Chapter 1 — The Secret of the Old Clock In the village of Clairvigne, there was a house everyone knew but no one dared to approach: the House of Clocks. Its owner, Master Horatus, was an old man with a silver beard who repaired all kinds of watches and clocks. In his workshop, more than twenty old clocks chimed at different times—sometimes too early, sometimes early, sometimes in complete silence. Many children were afraid of this strange cacophony. But it was not the case of Zoé....