 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
 | 1813 - 1404 страници
...With tha years beyond the flood. It 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...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... | |
 | 1839 - 296 страници
...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... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 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...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... | |
 | 1840 - 372 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... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 страници
...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! (1) A dread eternity ! liow surely mine ' And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 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 1 a fathomless abyss; A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 376 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 hones and fears Start up alarm 'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — On what ? — a fathomless... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 710 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 hopee and fears Htnrt up alcrm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down— On what J— a fathomless... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 370 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,... | |
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