| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 páginas
...no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, 1 feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the...years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 páginas
...her long arrear: Nor let the phial of thy vengeancej pour'd On this devoted head, be pour'd in vain. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But...then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, 1 feel the eolemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With... | |
| Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 páginas
...and the fervour of its piety. Dr. • Young died at his living of Welwyn, in 1765, aged 84.] '.....' THE bell strikes One. We take no note of time '•...despatch : How much is to be done? My hopes and fears i Start up alarm' d, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — On what! a fathomless abyss; A dread... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 412 páginas
...her long arrear : Nor let the phial of thy vengeance, pour'd On this devoted head, be pour'd in vain. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But...years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch ; , How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarm 'd, and o'er life's narrow... | |
| John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 páginas
...rash alarm of fear, And sudden grkf, and rage, and sudden joy. YOUNG. NIGHT THOUGHTS. — Night 1. THE bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But...years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch ; How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 246 páginas
...his pulse stop, first announced his death to the spectators. CHAPTER XIV. The bell strikes one,—\ve take no note of time But from its loss. To give it...then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, 1 feel the solemn sound YOUNG. THE moral, which the poet has rather quaintly • deduced from the necessary... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 páginas
...take no note of time But by its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spake I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright It is the...years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch. DAY AND NIGHT. Gay. WHEN the gay sun first breaks the shades of night, And streaks the distant... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 274 páginas
...her long arrear: Nor let the phial of thy vengeance, pour'd On this devoted head, be pour'd in vain. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But...then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke 1 feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they? With... | |
| 1822 - 430 páginas
...now quote some lines which may be read, I think, more than once, yet not tire the ear nor the mind. " The bell strikes one! We take no note of time " But...loss : to give it then a tongue - "Is wise in man" Night 1. There is, I think, much good sense in these lines ; — sense which comes home to our hearts... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 284 páginas
...her long arrear: Nor let the phial of thy vengeance, pour'd On this devoted head, be pour'd in vain. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But...from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in num. As if an angel spoke I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed... | |
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