 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? With the years beyond the...  The Fifth Reader of the School and Family Series - Page 42by Marcius Willson - 1863 - 527 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1813 - 324 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...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 IA fathomless abyss. A dread eternity !... | |
 | Sunday school teachers - 1813 - 1368 pages
...speak of the value of time we might just as well speak of the value of life — for time is life ! " The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But...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... | |
 | Edward Young - 1813 - 380 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...wise in man. *• As if an angel spoke, I feel the soleton sound..' If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they? With the years... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1815 - 416 pages
...felt his pulse stop, first announced his death to the spectators. CHAPTEE XIV. « • ' •• • The bell strikes. one,— -we take no note of time...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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Astrologers - 1815 - 354 pages
...his pulse stop, first announced his death to the spectators. CHAPTER XIV. The bell strikes one,—we take no note of time But from its loss. To give it...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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1815 - 322 pages
...his pulse stop, first announced his death to the spectators. CHAPTER XIV. The bell strikes one,—we take no note of time But from its loss. To give it...tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel 'he solemn s 'uncl YOUN'G. THE moral, which the poet has rather quaintly deduced from the necessary... | |
 | Walter Scott - Astrologers - 1815 - 360 pages
...first announced his death to the spectators. CHAPTER XIV. The bell strikes ene,— we take no note But from its loss. To give it then a. tongue Is wise...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,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1815 - 332 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 from its loss. To give it, then, a tongue, h wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1815 - 358 pages
...his pulse stop, first announced his death to the spectators. CHAPTER XIV. The bell strikes one,—we take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue IB wise in man. As if an.angel (poke, I feel the solemn sound. YoUHO. THE moral, which the poet has... | |
 | Edward Young - Death - 1816 - 390 pages
...her long arrear. Nor let the vial 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...years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
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