| John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 470 pages
...slumb'ring world. z0 Silence how dead! and darkness how profound! Nor eye nor list'ning ear an object finds; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the gen'ral pulse Of life...stood still, and nature made a pause; An awful pause ! prophetick of her end. z5 And let her prophecy be soon fulfill'd : Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can... | |
| Edward Young - 1798 - 432 pages
...world. 20 Silence, how dread ! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the gen'ral pulse Of life...made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end. 25 And let her prophecy be soon fulfill'd : Fate! drop the curtain; I can lose no more. Silence and... | |
| Edward Young - 1802 - 416 pages
...world. Silence, how dead! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the gen'ral pulse Of life...made a pause; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. And let her prophesy be soon fulfill'd ; Fate! drop the curtain; I can lose no more. Silence and Darkness!... | |
| Edward Young - English literature - 1802 - 402 pages
...world. Silence, how dead ! and darkness, how profound! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the gen'ral pulse Of life...made a pause; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. And let her prophesy be soon fulfill'd ; Fate! drop the curtain; I can lose no more. Silence and Darkness!... | |
| Edward Young - English poetry - 1802 - 412 pages
...world. Silence, how dead ! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds; Creation sleeps. Tis as the gen'ral pulse Of life...made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. And let her prophesy be soon fulfill'd ; Fate! drop the curtain; I can lose no more. Silence and Darkness!... | |
| Edward Young - 1802 - 416 pages
...world. Silence, how dead ! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the gen'ral pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause ; I An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. I And let her prophesy be soon fulfill'd ; \Fate! drop the... | |
| Charles Fothergill (of Salisbury.) - 1803 - 342 pages
...how profound " Nor eye, nor list'ning car, an object finds ; " Creation sleeps. "Pis as the general 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 ; I can lose no more." ESSAY ON... | |
| Edward Young - English poetry - 1805 - 238 pages
...slumb'ring world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound! Nor eye nor list'ning ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the gen'ral pulse Of life...made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. And let her prophecy be soon fulfill'd : Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more. Silence and... | |
| Edward Young - 1805 - 284 pages
...profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear an object finds; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse ' B Of life stood still, and nature made a pause; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. And let her prophecy be soon fulfil'd: Fate! drop the curtain ; I.can lose no more. Silence and darkness... | |
| Elizabeth Helme - Orphans - 1807 - 218 pages
...how profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an 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 ! YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS, AT the fool of a high hill, on a large tract of barren land, known by the... | |
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