 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
 | James Hervey - 1837 - 730 страници
...attentively, what is the present state, 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...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... | |
 | 1837 - 646 страници
...pause." — Night Third. Or the vivid portrait of a person terrified at his perilous situation, where " hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down." — Or the good man uplifted above the tumulte of the world— a passage evidently in the memory of... | |
 | Levi Tucker - 1837 - 200 страници
...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 narrow verge Look down— on what? A fathomless abyss! A dread eternity! How surely mine!" We remarked during the last lecture that infidelity was subversive... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1837 - 1058 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,... | |
 | Lord Edward Lytton Bulwer - 1837 - 376 страници
...hour , Lord Vargrave never uttered another syllable. CHAPTER IV. " Hopes and fears Start up alarmed , and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what? a fathomless abyss." YOUNG. " Contempt, farewell, and maiden pride, adieu!" Hindi Ado about Xothing. THE wound which Maltravers... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1838 - 226 страници
...breathe f,r more than an hour, Lord Va;grave never uttered another syllable. THOUGHTS. 167 CHAPTER IV. " Hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down— on what ? a fathomless abjss " YODNO. " Contempt, farewell, and, maiden pride, adieu !" Much Ado about Nothing. THE wound... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 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... | |
 | English monthly tract society - 1838 - 634 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 1 " ONCE more are we reminded, by the striking of the midnight bell,... | |
 | 1838 - 938 страници
...caves as those that have been thrown up on the surging sea. " My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow 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... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1838 - 400 страници
...across the dusky fields to the neighbouring forest. CHAPTER V. " Hopes and Fears Start up alarmed , and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? — a fathomless abyss:" YOUNG. MIDNIGHT— and intense Frost!— there they were— houseless and breadless— the two fugitives... | |
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