 | Edward Young - 1810 - 278 strani
...loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angelspoke, 1 feel the soleum sound. If heatd aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where...years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes nnd fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 strani
...COMMONS. The hell strikes one. We take no note of tinw 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 at my departed hours: Where are they ? With the years heyond the flood. It is the signal that demands... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 strani
...vain. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, [s wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the bull of my departed hours : Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood. It is the sifpiai that... | |
 | 1812 - 356 strani
...that are past ! — Alas ! , " 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...heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : dedicated to solemn retrospection. The revels of thoughtless mirth are inconsistent with its proper•... | |
 | Edward Young - 1813 - 324 strani
...in vain. 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...years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
 | 1813 - 1368 strani
...life ! " 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...knell of my departed hours. Where are they ? With tho years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes... | |
 | Edward Young - 1813 - 380 strani
...in vain. 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 soleton sound..' If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they? With the years... | |
 | Edward Young - 1815 - 332 strani
...vain. The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it, then, a tongue, h wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn...years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1815 - 356 strani
...XIV. 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— YOBNG. THE moral, which the poet has rather quaintly deduced from the necessary mode of measuring time,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1815 - 358 strani
...the precariousness of their tenure until it has altogether failed. Then, for a moment at least, Our hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down—On what?—a fathomless abyss,' A dark eternity, how surely ours ! i The crowd of assembled... | |
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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. 
