 | John Barber - 1828 - 310 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 fiulfilPd; Fate! drop the curtain;... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 strani
...sceptre o'er a slumbering 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 prophesy be soon fulfill'd; Fate! drop the curtain;... | |
 | Thomas Gaspey - 1828 - 368 strani
...deep-toned voice, from the author he had before quoted— " Silence how still! and darkness how profound! Tis as the general pulse of life stood still, And nature made a pause— An awful pause, prophetic of her end. And let her prophecy be soon fulfilled. Fate drop the curtain.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 strani
...inspire. The pealing organ, and the pausing choir. And the last words that dust to dust conveyed ! Ticket. Creation sleeps ! Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pauM An awful paiut ! prophetic of its end. Young. PAUSIAS, a famous ancient painter, the inventor... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 412 strani
...brother in a lodge, was a warning to the rest to have a care of listeners. Saift. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye, nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. . . Young. At first he aims at what he hears, And liilening close with both his ears, Just catches... | |
 | 1829 - 428 strani
...instances, prevented any religious exercises for a short interval — but nothing like confusion — " 'Twas as the general pulse of life stood still, and nature made a pause — an awful pause, prophetic of her end." At such seasons, the realities of an awful eternity seemed... | |
 | 1829 - 894 strani
...instances, prevented any religious exercises for a short interval — but nothing like confusion — " 'Twas as the general pulse of life stood still, and nature made a pause — an awful pause, prophetic of her end." At such seasons, the realities of an awful eternity seemed... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 strani
...ay less majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden eceptre 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 6f life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; AD awefnl pause ! prophetic... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 strani
...and darkness how profound I Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tie аз the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. And let her prophecy be soon fulfilled : Fate I drop the curtain... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 592 strani
...either a lover or a tyrant, but every reader is interested when he hears that " Creation sleeps ; 't is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause — An awful pause — prophetic of its end." " This,? said he, " is true ; but remember that taking... | |
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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... 
