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 flood. It is the signal that demands despatch. How much is to be done! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed,... The Waverley Novels - Страница 201по Walter Scott - 1860Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 страници
...the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done? My hopes and fears i Start up alarm' d, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — On what! a fathomless abyss; A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! , . ' And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 246 страници
...least, Our hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down—On what?—a fathomless abyss, A dark eternity, how surely ours? The crowd of assembled gazers and idlers at Ellangovvan had followed the views of amusement, or what they calledbusiness, which brought them there,... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 412 страници
...the signal that demands dispatch ; , 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 ? a fathomless abyss ! A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of... | |
| John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 страници
...is the signal that demands dispatch ; 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 ? — A fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of... | |
| James Hervey - 1825 - 500 страници
...state, and what is likely to be the final condition of my soul. My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd ; and o'er life's narrow verge Look down— on what? A fathomless abyss, A vast eternity ! My sins, at the same time, like an armed host, are set in dreadful array, and surround... | |
| 1828 - 476 страници
...may be lying, stiffened and shrouded, beside them! This is an awful subject of contemplation: — " Our hopes and fears start up alarmed, and o'er life's...verge look down — on what? — a fathomless abyss, a dread eternity!" Many and sad are the mementoes that abound both within our own breasts, and in the... | |
| Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 страници
...flood. 5 It is the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Rise up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? a fathomless abyss, A dread eternity, — 6 how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties... | |
| Edward Young - 1826 - 284 страници
...signal that demands despatch : " ". How much is .to bo done ! My 'hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, a^id o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss. A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! 65 And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 страници
...is the signal that demands dispatch : 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 ? A fathomless abyss. A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of... | |
| John Whitecross - 1830 - 196 страници
...is the siff uil that demands dispatch: How much is to be done! My hopes and fears Start up alann'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — On what ? a fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity !" Conviction seized the youth. Alarmed and terrified, he left the dissipated throng,... | |
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