 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?  The Port Folio - Sivu 110muokkaaja - 1809Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 sivua
...her long arrear : Nor let the phial of thy vengeance, ponrM 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, '• wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 sivua
...general pulse Of life stood still', and Nature made a pause', An awful' pause ! prophetic of her end\ The bell strikes one'. We take no note' of time But...hours\ Where are' they ? with the years beyond the flood'. It is the signal' that demands despatch' : How much' is to be done ! my hopes and fears Start... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - 1832 - 496 sivua
...his duty towards you, and observe more exactly the consideration due to you. REFLECTIONS AT MIDNIGHT. THE bell strikes One. We take no note of time But...departed hours. Where are they? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch: How much is to be done! My hopes and fears Start up... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 sivua
...lectuie silent, but ofsov'reign pow'r ! To vice, confusion ; and to virtue, peace. NO. 164. TIME"! THE bell strikes one. We take no note of time. But...heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. 5 Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch, How much... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1833 - 274 sivua
...to do with the letter I am dictating to you ? Go on." LESSON FORTY-EIGHTH. The Timepiece. The clock strikes one: we take no note of time, But from its...departed hours; Where are they? with the years beyond the flood; It is the signal that demands despatch; How much is to be done! my hopes and .fears Start up... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1833 - 286 sivua
...I am dictating to you ? Go on." LESSON FORTY-EIGHTH. The Timepiece. The clock strikes one: we lake no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then...departed hours; Where are they? with the years beyond the flood; It is the signal that demands despatch; How much is to be done! my hopes and fears Start up... | |
 | Lady Catherine Pollock Manners Stepney - 1833 - 324 sivua
...as we estimate the fleeting hours, it is circumstantial notice that informs us on character : — ' We take no note of time But from its loss : to give...man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man ! How passing wonder... | |
 | Edward Young - 1834 - 370 sivua
...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...hours : Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears StarJ up... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 362 sivua
...my Sexton seek, Whose days are sped ? — " What! he, himself! — and is old Dibble dead?" (1) C " As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed houn. — YOUNG.] His eightieth year he reach'd, still undecay'd, And rectors five to one close vault... | |
 | Luke Hebert - 1835 - 816 sivua
...lens, set fire to the • powder, which discharges the gun, and thus announces the hour of noon. " We take no note of time but from its loss: To give it then a tongue is wise in man." Dials of this description are placed in the gardens of the Palais Royal, and of the Luxembourg. DIALLING.... | |
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