For him there is no longer any future, His life is bright — bright without spot it was And cannot cease to be. No ominous hour Knocks at his door with tidings of mishap. Far off is he, above desire and fear ; No more submitted to the change and chance... The London Magazine - Page 4641827Full view - About this book
| James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...life is bright — bright without spot it was, And cannot cease to be. No ominous hour Kuocks at his door with tidings of mishap. Far off is he, above...to the change and chance Of the unsteady planets. Oh, 'tis well With him ! but who knows what the coming hour, Veil'd in thick darkness, brings for us... | |
| American literature - 1847 - 440 pages
...sermon there occurs this remarkable, and as it proved, ominous, quotation — " Oh, 'tis well with him ; but who knows what the coming hour, veiled in thick darkness, brings for us f" We remember to have been told at the time, that during the delivery of the sermon, and if we mistake... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...life is bright—bright without spot it was, And cannot cease to be. No ominous hour Knocks at his door with tidings of mishap. Far off is he, above desire and fear; Of the unsteady planets. O 'tis well No more submitted to the change and chance With Jim.' but who... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pages
...life is bright — bright without spot it was, And cannot cease to be. No ominous hour Knocks at hi« door with tidings of mishap. Far off is he, above...to the change and chance Of the unsteady planets. О 'tis well With Aim.' but «ho knows what the coming hour Veil'd in thick darkness brings for lis?... | |
| Eliza Buckminster Lee - Biography & Autobiography - 1849 - 562 pages
...selected the words which he introduced towards the close of the sermon, — " O, 't is well With him ! But who knows what the coming hour, Veiled in thick darkness, brings for us ? " In this sermon he spoke of the value of posthumous reputation. " Though one of the most common,... | |
| Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...life is bright, — bright without spot it wos, And cannot cease to be. No ominous hour Knocks at his door with tidings of mishap. Far off is he, above...to the change and chance Of the unsteady planets. O ! 't is well With him ! but who knows what the coming hour, Veiled in thick darkness, brings for us... | |
| Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...life is bright, — bright without spot it was, And cannot cease to be. No ominous hour Knocks at his door with tidings of mishap. Far off is he, above...to the change and chance Of the unsteady planets. O ! 't is well With him ! but who knows what the coming hour, Veiled in thick darkness, brings for us... | |
| Literature - 1852 - 644 pages
...fear ; No more submitted to the chance and chango Of the unsteady planets. Oh Ч is well With him ! but who knows what the coming hour Veiled in thick darkness brings for us, ? Yes, ray friends, for us. These words arc not inappropriate to the hour and t!ie place. We are a... | |
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