 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
 | Grace Townsend - 1891 - 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 an... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1891 - 480 страници
...fast making across the dusky fields to the neighbouring forest. CHAPTER V. HOPES and Fears Start np alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down : on what ? — a fathomless abyss ! — YOCNO. MIDNIGHT — and intense frost ! There they were — houseless and breadless — the two... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1892 - 496 страници
...until it has altogether failed. Then, for a moment at least — Our hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what...fathomless abyss, A dark eternity, how surely ours J Tho crowd of assembled gazers and idlers at Ellangowan had followed the views of amusement, or what... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 464 страници
...is toe signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done t My hopes and feara Start tip alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what? A fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! how surely mine! j And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1896 - 490 страници
...until it has altogether failed. Then, for a moment at least — Our hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what...fathomless abyss, A dark eternity, how surely ours I The crowd of assembled gazers and idlers at Ellangowan had followed the views of amusement, or what... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1898 - 920 страници
...until it has altogether failed. Then, for a moment at least-rOur hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what?...fathomless abyss, A dark eternity, how surely ours I The crow'd of assembled gazers and idlers at Ellangowan had followed the views of amusement, or what... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 432 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 Chambers - 1902 - 860 страници
...With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ? My dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 618 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... | |
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