 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?  The Guardian - Page 451859Full view - About this book
 | Luke Hebert - Industrial arts - 1835 - 816 pages
...lens, set fire to the • powder, which discharges the gun, and thus announces the hour of noon. " We take no note of time but from its loss: To give it then a tongue is wise in man." Dials of this description are placed in the gardens of the Palais Royal, and of the Luxembourg. DIALLING.... | |
 | 1835 - 616 pages
...wander among the wrecks and monuments of Tune — toread the epitaphs of hours and learn the moral. " We take no note of Time But from its loss — to give it then a tongue In man, is wiee." Each moment is a warning orator. It is profitable and even necessary to pause in... | |
 | lady Marianne Dora Malet - 1836 - 336 pages
...and Violet Woodville was able to number by years her absence from her own country. CHAPTER XVII. " We take no note of time, But from its loss— to give it then a tongue Is wise in man." MY readers must suppose a few years to have elapsed since the events we last recorded; and allow me... | |
 | W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 616 pages
...furnish forth the marriage tables. —Shakespeare: ' Hamlet, * Act I. ПМЕ The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. — Young: 'Night Thoughts.' We see Time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...waft a feather, or to drown a fly. (From Till Camflaiitl— Night I.) On Time. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss : to give...knell of my departed hours. Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...waft a feather, or to drown a fly. (From The Cotnplaint — Night I.) On Time. The bell strikes one. dored before, as great and magnificent, is obliterated...the whole earth. Where are now the great empires the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done? My hopes... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - Criticism - 1903 - 218 pages
...the striking of a deep-toned bell. Naturally he thinks of the flight of time. " The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss : to give...heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours." A meditation may, as a conclusion, impart a satisfying completeness to a piece. Nothing could be finer,... | |
 | Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 502 pages
...enemies, but he that has made it his enemy, will have little to hope from his friends. — COLTON. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give...knell of my departed hours : Where are they? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch: How much is to be done? My hopes... | |
 | William Franklin Watson - 1904 - 244 pages
...the divinest thing on earth. 12. Winter lingering chills the lap of May. 13. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it, then, a tongue Is wise in man. 14. Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes. They were easiest to his feet.... | |
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