 | British poets - 1809 - 526 páginas
...no note of time But from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke 1 feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the...departed hours. Where are they ? With the years beyond tho flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spake, I frel o his will, Tho' pleas'd dissembling, and a woman stilh ; f Boos tt 113 Whercarethcv? with theyears beyond the Flood? It i» the Mgnal that demands, disjiatch... | |
 | Edward Young - 1810 - 278 páginas
...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...demands dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes nnd fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge '! nok down— on what? A fathomless abyss... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 páginas
...vain. The bell strikes out. We take no note of tirno But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn...aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are thry ? With the years beyond the flood. It is the sigtial that demands dispatch ; How much is to lie... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 380 páginas
...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...How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarm' d, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down— on what ? a fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity... | |
 | 1813 - 1368 páginas
...! " 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1815 - 360 páginas
...CHAPTER XIV. The bell strikes ene,— we take no note But from its loss. To give it then a. tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound.—— YOUNG. THE moral, which the poet has rather quaintly deduced from the necessary mode of measuring time,... | |
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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 : Where are they? 
