 | 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
...her long arrear: Nor let 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...dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears StarJ up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down; — On what ? a fathomless abyss ; A dread... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Fewsmith, Edgar Arthur Singer - English language - 1905 - 216 pages
...etc." continual dropping of water hollows out a stone. 7. Riches certainly make themselves wings. 8. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time but from its loss. 1). Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. 10. Happy are we, if we make God's... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...long arrear: Nor let the phial of thy vengeance, pour'd On this devoted head, be pour'd in vain. 66 The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But...then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, 1 feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: eo Where are they?... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 616 pages
...indeed, a lady may decline (All ladies but herself) at ninety-nine. TIME FROM NIGHT THOUGHTS NIGHT I The bell strikes one : we take no note of time, But...years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch; 60 How much is to be done! my hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 654 pages
...indeed, a lady may decline (All ladies but herself) at ninety-nine. TIME FBOM NIGHT THOUGHTS NIGHT I , The bell strikes one : we take no note of time, But...aright, It is the knell of my .departed hours: Where arc they ? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch; 60 How much is... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1907 - 498 pages
...pulse stop, first announced his death to the spectators. CHAPTER XIV The bell strikes one. We take DO note of time But from its loss. To give it then a...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... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 506 pages
...her long arrear : Nor let the vial of thy vengeance, poured On this devoted head, be poured in vain. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue 55 Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 506 pages
...her long arrear : Nor let the vial of thy vengeance, poured On this devoted head, be poured in vain. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue 55 Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell... | |
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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? 
