 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 alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow...  Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer - Страница 222по Walter Scott - 1815 - 358 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 246 страници
...were upon the very brink of nonexistence, but we derive no lesson from the precariousness of their tenure until it has altogether failed. Then, for a moment at 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1832 - 614 страници
...embodying feelings, his fondness of personifying. For instance : — " My Hopes and Fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down— on what ? a fathomless abyss." This vivifying the dread inmates of the human heart, and giving the Dark Invisible a shape and action,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 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 alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what 1 A fathomless abyss. A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner... | |
 | James Hervey - 1825 - 460 страници
...attentively, what is the present state, and what is likely to he 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 1 A fathomlesa ahyte, A vast eternity ! My sins, at the same time, like an armed host,... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 страници
...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... | |
 | 1828 - 476 страници
...beside them! This is an awful subject of contemplation: — " Our hopes and fears start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow 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... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 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 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 388 страници
...were upon the very brink of non-existence, but we derive no lesson from the precariousness of their tenure until it has altogether failed. Then, for a moment at least, Our hopes and fears Start up alaiin'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — On what ? — a fathomless abyss, A dark eternity,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 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 alarm'd, and o'er life's...verge Look down — On what? a fathomless abyss! A dread eternity I how surely mine.' And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of... | |
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