 | O'Hara family pseud - 1842 - 330 ページ
...Neddy Fennell, now also smiling, had contrived to meet. A death-like silence ensued. '' It was as if the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature...made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end!" And during the " awful pause" James Charles Buchmahon, half inclining himself backwards, and holding... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 ページ
...from her ebon throne, In raylese majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden «ceptre o'er a »lumbering ! And should my future lot be cast With much resemblance...Country.} [From ' The Task.1] Hark ! 'tis the twanging And let her prophecy be soon fulfilled : Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more. Silence and... | |
 | William Russell - 1844 - 428 ページ
...close ; And Hope enchanted smil'd, and wav'd her golden hair." EXERCISES O'N TIME. Slowest Rate. " Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless...nor listening ear an object finds : Creation sleeps. 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause, — An awful pause, — prophetic... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 ページ
...distress ; and night, E'en in the zenith of her dark domain, Is sunshine to the colour of my fate. They coiled and swam; and every track \Vas a Hash...pushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware : car an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made... | |
 | 1844 - 764 ページ
...and can point to living examples of suffering virtue in the end meeting their due reward. CHAPTER T. Night, sable goddess, from her ebon throne. In rayless...majesty now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb ring world, Silence, how dead ! and darkness, how profound! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object... | |
 | 1845 - 600 ページ
...rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence, how dread ! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor listening...made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end." This law of rest must be'obeyed. There is no muscular frame so powerful that it can be disregarded;... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 348 ページ
...when the blast of the north ia on the plain, and the traveler shrinks in the midst of his journey. 12. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless...darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear can object find : Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 ページ
...a slumbering world\ Silencev, how dead'! and darkness', how profound^ Nor eye', nor listening earv, an object finds ; Creation sleeps.^ 'Tis as the general...awful' pause ! prophetic of her end\ The bell strikes onev. We take no note' of time But from its lossv. To give it then a tongue' Is wisev in man. As if... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 ページ
...Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat. On the Value of Time to Man. YOUNG. NIGHT, sable goddess, from her ebon throne, In rayless...world. Silence, how dead! and darkness, how profound I Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 352 ページ
...slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear can object find : Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life...made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end. 13. This is the place, the centre of the grove: Here stands the oak, the monarch of the wood. How sweet... | |
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Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead! and darkness how profound! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general... 
