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
| 1809 - 592 страници
...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 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 an... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 страници
...the sigtial that demands dispatch ; How much is to lie 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... | |
| 1813 - 1368 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... | |
| Edward Young - 1813 - 380 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... | |
| Edward Young - 1815 - 332 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 oil the bounties of... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 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... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 страници
...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 OH the bounties... | |
| 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,... | |
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