 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
 | Orville Dewey - 1835 - 306 страници
...flight ? Well saith the poet, " 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!* " Seize, then, the present momenta ; For be assured, they all are... | |
 | 1836 - 558 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... | |
 | Levi Tucker - 1837 - 200 страници
...righteous and the wicked; between him that serveth God, and him that lerveth him not Mu,. 3: IS. "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!" We remarked during the last lecture that infidelity was subversive... | |
 | James Hervey - 1837 - 730 страници
...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, aad surround... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 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... | |
 | English monthly tract society - 1838 - 634 страници
...knell of my departed hours — 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 1 " ONCE more are we reminded, by the striking of the midnight bell,... | |
 | 1838 - 938 страници
...as wonderful in their undiscovered caves as those that have been thrown up on the surging sea. " My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's...verge Look down, — on what? a fathomless abyss, A dread eternity." That is indeed Poetry. Recoils the soul from the brink of the abyss ? Stands it shuddering... | |
 | 1839 - 296 страници
...the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch. How much is to be done ? My hope and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow...verge Look down — on what? A fathomless abyss, A dread eternity." The effect of the recollection of this passage was solemn and powerful. He could no... | |
 | 1813 - 1404 страници
...is tho 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... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 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... | |
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