| 1820 - 398 ページ
...honores." p. 264. The first lines of the following passage remind us strongly of a description of Young : " 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... | |
| 1829 - 428 ページ
...instances, prevented any religious exercises for a short interval — but nothing like confusion — " 'Twas as the general pulse of life stood still, and nature...a pause — an awful pause, prophetic of her end." At such seasons, the realities of an awful eternity seemed to ne spread before the congregation, while... | |
| 1829 - 894 ページ
...instances, prevented any religious exercises for a short interval — but nothing like confusion — " 'Twas as the general pulse of life stood still, and nature...a pause — an awful pause, prophetic of her end." At such seasons, the realities of an awful eternity seemed to he spread before the congregation, while... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 412 ページ
...when spoke by any brother in a lodge, was a warning to the rest to have a care of listeners. Saift. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor...nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. . . Young. At first he aims at what he hears, And liilening close with both his ears, Just catches... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 ページ
...distress ; and night, E'en in the zenith of her dark domain, Is sunshine to the colour of my fate. ide was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread...an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoeve I Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tie аз the general pulse Of life... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 ページ
...sable goddess I from her ebon throne, In i ay less majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden eceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence, how dead ! and darkness,...nor listening ear, an object finds; Creation sleeps. T is, as the general pulse 6f life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; AD awefnl pause ! prophetic... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 592 ページ
...either a lover or a tyrant, but every reader is interested when he hears that " Creation sleeps ; 't is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause — An awful pause — prophetic of its end." " This,? said he, " is true ; but remember that taking the compositions of Young in general,... | |
| Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 ページ
...scepter o'er a slumb'ring world : Silence, how dead ! and darkness, how profound Nor eye nor list'ning ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the...made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end. Sleep. Tir'd Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visits pays Where... | |
| Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 ページ
...how profound ! Nor eye nor list'ning ear, an object finds ; 5 С reation sleeps. Tis as the gen'ral pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. O majestic Night ! Nature's great ancestor ! Day's elder-born ! 10 And fated to survive the transient... | |
| Moses Severance - 1833 - 304 ページ
...dead ! and darkness, how profound Nor eye nor list'ning ear an object finds; ' Creation sleeps, "i'is as the general pulse . ' Of life stood still, and...made a pause, An awful pause,- prophetic of her end. Tir'd Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visits pays Where Fortune... | |
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