 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 strani
...strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. a As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : 3 Where are they ? 4 with the years beyond the flood. 5 It is the signal that demands despatch :... | |
 | Edward Young - 1826 - 284 strani
...take no note of time 55 But from its !oss : to give, it then a tongue Is wise in man As if an apgel spoke I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Whei-3 are they ? With the years beyond tho flood. GO It is the signal that demands despatch : " ".... | |
 | Edward Young - 1826 - 318 strani
...note of time 55 But from its loss : to give it theft a tongue Is wise in ruan. As if an angol spoke 1 feel the Solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. ON LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY. 7 Look down — or. what ? A fathrtmless abyss. A dread eternity !... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 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...Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down—on what ? A fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! how surely mine! And can eternity belong to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 388 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. YOUNO. THE moral, which the poet has rather quaintly deduced from the necessary mode of measuring time,... | |
 | Christian Mariner, Christian mariner - 1829 - 290 strani
...5, 6. " 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 ?—With the years... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 strani
...MIDNIGHT. 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... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 strani
...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...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... | |
 | John Whitecross - 1830 - 196 strani
...mind : " 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...they ? with the years beyond the flood : It is the siff uil that demands dispatch: How much is to be done! My hopes and fears Start up alann'd, and o'er... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 strani
...strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As it1 st dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
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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. 
