 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
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 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 ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of... | |
 | John Whitecross - 1830 - 196 страници
...is the siff uil that demands dispatch: How much is to be done! My hopes and fears Start up alann'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — On what ? a fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity !" Conviction seized the youth. Alarmed and terrified, he left the dissipated throng,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 страници
...the signal' that demands despatch' : How much' is to be done ! my hopes and fears Start up alarmed', 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 880 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 fcara Start uii alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down— On what ?— a fathomleiw abyss,... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1833 - 286 страници
...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 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... | |
 | Edward Young - 1834 - 370 страници
...the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears StarJ 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... | |
 | 1858 - 974 страници
...open world alone, Glad and eiultiug in its liberty. Sirs. Norton. Hopes and fears. Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what? a fathomless abyss. Young. Sybil bought her triumph of will at a dear price, it would seem, for Vernon was moody and silent... | |
 | Orville Dewey - 1835 - 310 страници
...ia the signal that demands despatch ; How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed; and o'er life's narrow verge, Look down — on what? A fathomless abyss, A dread eternity, how surely mine !" " Seize, then, the present moments ; For be assured, they all are... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1835 - 382 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,... | |
 | 1836 - 558 страници
...is the signal that demands despatch: How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, 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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