 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
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Thought» on Time. The bell strikes one. o all such ! but were there one whose urea True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires it1 an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound: If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...let the phial of thy vengeance, ponrM On this devoted head, be pour'd in 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 sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...stood still', and Nature made a pause', An awful' pause ! prophetic of her end\ 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 despatch' : How much' is to be done ! my... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 496 pages
...and observe more exactly the consideration due to you. REFLECTIONS AT MIDNIGHT. THE bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss: to give...the 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... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...ofsov'reign pow'r ! To vice, confusion ; and to virtue, peace. NO. 164. 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. 5 Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch, How much... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1833 - 274 pages
...the letter I am dictating to you ? Go on." LESSON FORTY-EIGHTH. The Timepiece. The clock strikes one: we take no note of time, But from its loss. To give...the 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... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Readers - 1833 - 286 pages
...I am dictating to you ? Go on." LESSON FORTY-EIGHTH. The Timepiece. The clock strikes one: we lake no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then...the 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... | |
 | Lady Catherine Pollock Manners Stepney - 1833 - 324 pages
...as we estimate the fleeting hours, it is circumstantial notice that informs us on character : — ' We take no note of time But from its loss : to give...man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man ! How passing wonder... | |
 | Edward Young - Fore-edge painting - 1834 - 370 pages
...the phial of thy vengeance, pour'd On this devoted head, be pour'd in vain. -.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... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 362 pages
...my Sexton seek, Whose days are sped ? — " What! he, himself! — and is old Dibble dead?" (1) C " As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed houn. — YOUNG.] His eightieth year he reach'd, still undecay'd, And rectors five to one close vault... | |
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