 | Scotland - 1838 - 938 pages
...Creation tleeps ! " The bell strikes — and " 'tis as if an angel spoke." " I feel the solemn Bound — if heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : "Where are they ? With the hours before the flood 1" Young, they say, was a disappointed man, and was world-sick because of unsuccessful... | |
 | Christian life - 1839 - 296 pages
...struck one. The following passage, from " Young's Night Thoughts," rushed on the young man's mind: " The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But...years beyond the flood. 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... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...her long arrear : Nor let the phial of thy vengeance, poured On this devoted head, be poured in vain. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But...then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, 1 feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 432 pages
...her long arrear : Nor let the phial of thy vengeance, poured On this devoted head, be poured in vain. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But...then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, 1 feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Anthologies - 1899 - 752 pages
...In rayless majesty now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world (xvii. 131. 29). The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss (xvii. 132. 23). Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour (xvii. 132. 35). Distinguished link in being's... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 610 pages
...funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. —Shakespeare: 'Hamlet* Act I. TIME The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But...its loss. To give It then a tongue Is wise in man. -Young: 'Night noughts' \Ve see Time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his... | |
 | W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 616 pages
...baked meats Did coldiy furnish forth the marriage tables. —Shakespeare: ' Hamlet, * Act I. ПМЕ The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But...its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. — Young: 'Night Thoughts.' We see Time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a panse, — An awful panse ! prophetic of her end. Line 23. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. Line 55. Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour. Line sr. To waft a feather or to drown a fly. Line... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - Criticism - 1903 - 218 pages
...night the poet hears the striking of a deep-toned bell. Naturally he thinks of the flight of time. " The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But...heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours." A meditation may, as a conclusion, impart a satisfying completeness to a piece. Nothing could be finer,... | |
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The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they? 
