| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 702 strani
...‘¿JE midnight Shades, o'er Nature fpreaci I A Dumb (ilence of the dreary hour!. In honour of th' approaching dead, Around your awful terrors pour. Yes, pour around, On this pale ground, Through all this deep furrounding gloom,, The fober thought, The tear untaught, Thofe meeteft mourners... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 370 strani
...HYMN. I. YE midnight fhades, o'er Nature fpread t Dumb filence of the dreary hour I In honour of th' approaching dead, Around your awful terrors pour. Yes, pour around, On this pale ground, Through all this deep furrounding gloora > The fober thought, The tear untaught, Thofe meeteft mourners... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 368 strani
...HYM I. YE midnight {hades, o'er Nature fpread t Dumb filence of the dreary hour t In honour of th' approaching dead, Around your awful terrors pour. Yes, pour around, On this pale ground, Through all this deep furrounding gloom, The fober thought,. The tear untaught,. Thofe meeteft mourners... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 404 strani
...HYMN. "\7 E midnight fliades, o'er Nature fpread ! Dumb filence of the dreary hour ! In honour of th' approaching dead, Around your awful terrors pour. Yes, pour around, On this pale ground, Through all this deep furrounding gloom, The fober thought, The tear untaught, Thofe meeteft mourners... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 512 strani
...HYMN. • I. YE midnight ihades, o'er Nature fpread ! Dumb iUence of the dreary hour ! In honour of th' approaching dead, Around your awful terrors pour. Yes, pour around, On this pale ground, Through all this deep furrounding gloom, The fober thought, The tear untaught, Thofe meeteft mourners... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 strani
...Mallet. YE midnight (hades, o'er nature spread t Dumb silence of the dreary hour ! In honour of th' approaching dead. Around your awful terrors pour. Yes, pour around. On this pale ground, Through all this deep surrounding gloom. The sober thought. The tear untaught, Those mcctest mourners... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 strani
...more, She now no change, nor you no fear can feel: Death, to her fame, has fix'd th' eternal seal! A FUNERAL HYMN. Ye midnight shades, o'er Nature spread! Dumb silence of the dreary hour ! In honour of th' approaching dead, Around your awful terrours pour. Yes, pour around, On this pale ground,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 552 strani
...the Gentile's scorn; No censer round our altar beams, And mute our timbrel, trump, and horn. But THOU hast said, The blood of goat, The flesh of rams, I...heart, an humble thought, Are mine accepted sacrifice. When the sounds of Rebecca's devotional hymn had died away in silence, the low knock at the door was... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 272 strani
...more ; She now no change, nor you no fear, can feel; Death to her fame has fix'd the' eternal seal. A FUNERAL HYMN. YE midnight shades ! o'er Nature spread, Dumb silence of the dreary hour; In honour of the' approaching dead Around your awful terrors pour. Yes, pour around On this pale ground,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1823 - 328 strani
...Gentile's scorn; No censer round our altar beams, And mute are timbrel, trump and horn. " But THOU hast said, the blood of goat, The flesh of rams I...heart, an humble thought, Are mine accepted sacrifice. When the sounds of Rebecca's devotional hymn had died-away in silence, the low knock at the door was... | |
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