 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Thought» on Time. } /, K 8 P $wZ b _ @ Շ{ z 7 l?n i ?B Ր&/ @ 9L 4(Ń R . A; Ƭ I & Q k \K&d it1 an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound: If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...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... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 496 pages
...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...years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch: How much is to be done! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...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... | |
 | Lady Catherine Pollock Manners Stepney - 1833 - 324 pages
...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 - 1833 - 360 pages
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 | Edward Young - Fore-edge painting - 1834 - 370 pages
...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 StarJ up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 362 pages
...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 - Industrial arts - 1835 - 816 pages
...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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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? 
