Original (English)

NIGHTMARE ABBEY: BY THE AUTHOR OF HEADLONG HALL. * * * * *   There's a dark lantern of the spirit,   Which none see by but those who bear it,   That makes them in the dark see visions   And hag themselves with apparitions,   Find racks for their own minds, and vaunt   Of their own misery and want.   BUTLER. * * * * * LONDON: 1818. MATTHEW. Oh! it's your only fine humour, sir. Your true melan