| William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 sider
...rayless majesty now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world. Silence, how dead ! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor listening...pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause ; An awful pause, prophetic of her end. Silence and Darkness, solemn sisters ! twins From ancient Night,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 274 sider
...rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening...pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. And let her prophecy be soon fulfill'd : Fate ! drop the curtain... | |
| 1822 - 746 sider
...change of air, that he he remarked could not be described better than ia the words of Dr. Young, " 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still and nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end." Amidst all the sorrow and anxious uncertainty connected with... | |
| Isaac Candler - 1824 - 530 sider
...parts you may listen in vain to hear any sound at all. In the words of Dr. Young, " Listening ear no object finds ; Creation sleeps. Tis as the general...pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end." CHAPTER II. CITIES, TOWNS, AND VILLAGES. As the place where... | |
| Isaac Candler - 1824 - 520 sider
...parts you may listen in vain to hear any sound at all. In the words of Dr. Young, " Listening ear no object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general...pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end." CHAPTER II. CITIES, TOWNS, AND VILLAGES. As the place where... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 sider
...into grace ; what worse For where no hope is left, is left no fear. Milton's Paradise Regained, b. 3. Creation sleeps ; 'tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. And let her prophesy be soon fulfilled ; Fate ! drop the curtain... | |
| Isaac Candler - 1824 - 522 sider
...any sound at all. In the words of Dr. Young, " Listening ear no object finds ; Creation sleeps. "Pis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause j An awful pause ! prophetic of her end." CHAPTER II. CITIES, TOWNS, AND VILLAGES. As the place where... | |
| Elias Carpenter - 1824 - 650 sider
...when to all (but those unnatural beings who turn night into day,) a dead stillness reigns, " as if the general " pulse of life stood still, and nature made a pause — " an awful pause ! prophetic of her end." Some may suppose this the fanciful whim of a capricious... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1826 - 250 sider
...general. Every reader is not either a lover or a tyrant, but every reader is interested when he hears that Creation sleeps ; 'tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause ; An awful pause — -prophetic of its end. "This (said he) is true; but remember that taking the compositions... | |
| John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 sider
...rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the gen'ral pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end. And... | |
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