 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,...  Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer - Страница 225по Walter Scott - 1815 - 358 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 страници
...With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch: How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's...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... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 страници
...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 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... | |
 | Ireland. National Education Board - 1851 - 368 страници
...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 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... | |
 | 1851 - 278 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 страници
...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, and o'er life's...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... | |
 | David Thomas - 462 страници
...titles, and honours of this world, fall as dim meteors from our horizon. How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and, o'er life's...verge, Look down — on what ? a fathomless abyss — A dread eternity — how surely mine ! ferns of of fjomihj tfje Sebmtg=fiftfj. "But we all, with open... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 страници
...With the years beyond the floou ' It is the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's...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... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1852 - 624 страници
...alive know the truth of this passage." 13. SIR THOMAS SCOTT. " 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 1" THOMAS SCOTT, a privy councillor of James V. of Scotland, was a... | |
 | R. W. Vanderkiste - 1852 - 380 страници
...woful fears of this poor man. He might truly have said : — " 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." Conviction comes like the breath of evening over some minds,... | |
 | 1853 - 402 страници
...come. No 'dead stock,' however, will secure OB that. How MUCH ie to be done ! my hopes and my fear* Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what .' a fathomless abyss! A dr«ad eternity ! how surely mine ! A LAMENT. She sleeps that still and placid sleep For which the... | |
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