 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 my face; The hair of my flesh stood up...  The Popular Educator - Page 1461867Full view - About this book
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...when deep sleep falleth on 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...mine eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker ? Behold, he... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 262 pages
...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...There was silence ; and I heard a voice — Shall mor" tal man be more just than Godr?" As Ossian's supernatural beings are described with a surprising... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...then, О daughter of Toscar, my son began first to be sad. He 16 His face is without form, and dark.} Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of...still ; but I could not discern the form thereof. Job, iv. 15. '? Dark as the tales of other times, before the light of the sons: arose.] A parody upon... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...bones to shake, / was seized with 1 5 violent dread. Then a spirit! passed before my fa* ; the hair 16 of my flesh stood up : It stood still, but I could...thereof : an image [was] before mine eyes, [there was] 17 silence, and I heard a voice, [saying,||] Shall mortal man be more juat than God ? shall a man,... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 504 pages
...dread. Then a spirit^ passed before my face ; the hair 16 of my flesh stood up : It stood still, but 1 could not discern the form thereof : an image [was] before mine eyes, [there was] 17 silence, and I heard a voice, [saying,||] Shall mortal man be more just than God ? shall a rnan,... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...deep " sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, " which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit " passed before my face. The hair of...was silence; " and I heard a voice. Shall mortal man be more just " than God* ?" As Ossian's supernatural beings are described with a surprising force of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my Jlesh stood up. It stood still, but I could not discern...silence ; and I heard a voice, — Shall mortal man be more just than God ? We are first prepared with the utmost solemnity for the vision ; we are first... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...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...but I could not discern the form thereof ; an image tuas before mine eyes ; there was silence ; and I heard a voice, — Shall mortal man be more just... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...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...silence ; and I heard a " voice — Shall mortal man be more just than God ?"* (Job iv. 15.) No ideas, it is plain, are so sublime as those taken from the... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1807 - 904 pages
...Whea 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...mine eyes-, 'there was silence, and I heard a voice." * . f There are not, perhaps, many, instances of relations delivered in language more truly sublime... | |
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