 | 1838 - 876 pagina’s
...frofound ! Nor eye, nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation ileept .'" The boll strikes — and " tis as if an angel spoke." "I feel the solemn sound—...knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With the hours before the flood !" Young, they say, was a disappointed man, and was world-sick because of unsuccessful... | |
 | 1839 - 296 pagina’s
...struck one. The following passage, from " Young's Night Thoughts," rushed on the young man's mind: " The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But...that demands despatch. How much is to be done ? My hope and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what? A fathomless abyss,... | |
 | Margaret Richardson - 1839 - 236 pagina’s
...shine as a Star in Emmanuel's crown. ON THE DEATH OF OUR LATE REVERED MONARCH, WILLIAM THE FOURTH. " The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But...: Where are they? With the years beyond the flood. A dread eternity !— how surely mine ! YODNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS. "THE COMPLAINT." Scarce had we wreath'd,... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 pagina’s
...her long arrear : Nor let the phial of thy vengeance, poured On this devoted head, be poured 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 432 pagina’s
...her long arrear : Nor let the phial of thy vengeance, poured On this devoted head, be poured 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... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 610 pagina’s
...funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. —Shakespeare: 'Hamlet* Act I. TIME The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But...its loss. To give It then a tongue Is wise in man. -Young: 'Night noughts' \Ve see Time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his... | |
 | W. V. Byars - 1901 - 616 pagina’s
...baked meats Did coldiy furnish forth the marriage tables. —Shakespeare: ' Hamlet, * Act I. ПМЕ The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But...its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. — Young: 'Night Thoughts.' We see Time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pagina’s
...tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. (From The Cotnplaint — Night I.) On Time. that we admired and adored before, as great and magnificent,...now the great empires of the world, and their great dispatch : How much is to be done? My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 pagina’s
...tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. (From Till Camflaiitl— Night I.) On Time. umbers ste dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 218 pagina’s
...night the poet hears the striking of a deep-toned bell. Naturally he thinks of the flight of time. " The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But...heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours." A meditation may, as a conclusion, impart a satisfying completeness to a piece. Nothing could be finer,... | |
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The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they? 
