| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...sublime, and this sublimity is principally due to the terrible uncertainty of the thing described : In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all ray bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my... | |
| John Brand, Henry Bourne - Christian antiquities - 1777 - 466 pages
...there. * In Vit. Mar. Brut. Tranf. Duke. In the facred Writings we have Job * terrijied -with Vijions of the Night, when deep Sleep falleth upon Men, Fear came upon him and Trembling, which made all his Bones to {hake; then a Spirit patted by before his Face, and... | |
| George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...with a cold chill of horror, and the hair of his flesh stands erect, and thus he describes it : — " In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...terrible uncertainty of the thing defcribed : In thoughts from the vifions of the night, 'when deep jleep falleth upon men, fear came upon me and tremhling, which made all my hones to fhake. Then a fpirit pajfed hefore my face. The hair of my Jlejh jlood up. It food jlill, but I could... | |
| Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...with surprising art through the whole scene. There is a fine touch of this nature in Job iv. 13. " In " thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep " sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trem" bling, which made all my bones to shake : Then a " spirit passed... | |
| John Blair Linn - Genius - 1802 - 196 pages
...13, 14, 15, 16, 17. " Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof, in thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men. Fear came upon me and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my head... | |
| Bards and bardism - 1803 - 350 pages
...parallel among the Greek or Roman poets. They bring to mind that noble description in the book of Job : "In thoughts from the " visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on " men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which " made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...that we die all. Job. Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 262 pages
...parallel among the Greek or Roman poets. They bring to mind that noble description in the book of Job : " In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep " sleep falleth upon men, fear came upon me, and " trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then " a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...mine ear received a little thereof; some precious instruction concerning the will and word 13 of God. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, it happened in the night, when all was silent, 14 and my thoughts were composed / then Fear... | |
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