 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 strani
...sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor list'ning ear an object finds; Creation sleeps : — 'tis as...pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause, An awful pause ! prophetic of her end." Young. Do not imagine I mean to detract from the fame of the... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 554 strani
...dead! and darkness how profound) Nor eye nor list'ning ear an object finds; Creation sleeps:—'tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause, An awful pause! prophetic of her end." Young. 'there arises from the peculiar circumstances of the... | |
 | Edward Young - 1812 - 814 strani
...rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead! and darkness how profound! Nor eye nor listening ear...pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end. And let her prophecy be soon fulfill'd: Fate! drop the curtain;... | |
 | Edward Young - 1813 - 380 strani
...rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye, nor listening...pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. •*" tf And let her prophecy be soon fulfill'd : * Fate !... | |
 | Edward Young - 1813 - 324 strani
...rayless majesty now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds ; Oration sleeps Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause... | |
 | Edward Young - 1815 - 332 strani
...Sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world. Silence, how dead ; and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the...pulse Of Life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. And let her prophecy be soon fulfill'd : Fate, drop the curtam... | |
 | Thomas Green - 1818 - 654 strani
...the orderly demeanour, and silence, of the immense conconrse of people which were assembled. " 'twas as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause." AH contemplating with silent sorrow the last sad duty paid to the memory of England's brightest, fairest... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 strani
...rayless' majesty, now stretches fortk Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world\ Silence', how dead' ! and darkness', how profound" ! Nor eye', nor listening...pulse Of life stood still', and nature made a pause\ An awful' pause I prophetic of her end'. The bell strikes one\ We take no note' of time, But from its... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 strani
...rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence, how dead ! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor listening...pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. And let her prophecy be soon fulfill'd ; Fate ! drop the curtain... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 412 strani
...rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence, how dead ! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'T is, as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An aweful pause ! prophetic... | |
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Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds : Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general... 
