 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902
...darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. Tis as the general al for them to take the opportunity of the intervals between the acts to express their opi And let her prophecy be soon fulfilled ; Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more. Silence and... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1158 pages
...stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. tine is. Creation sleeps ! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause, — An awful pause ! 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... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - Authors, Irish - 1904
...now also smiling, had contrived to meet. A death-like silence ensued — " It was as if the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end I " And during the " awful pause " James Charles Buchmahon, half inclining himself backwards, and holding... | |
 | Alfred Biese - Nature - 1905 - 376 pages
...ebon throne In rayless majesty now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world . . . Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the gen'ral pulse Of life...made a pause ; An awful pause, prophetic of her end . . . etc. There is a wealth of imagery and comparison amid Ossian's melancholy and mourning ; clouds... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1906 - 533 pages
...darkness how profound! Nor eye nor listening 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. COMMAND "Halt!"—the dust-brown ranks stood fast; "Fire!"—out blazed the rifle-blast. "Barbara Frietchie."... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 752 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; 26 An awful pause! prophetic of her end. And let her prophecy be soon fulfill'd; Fate! drop the curtain;... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908
...darkness 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. 25 And let her prophecy be soon fulfilled! Fate, drop the curtain! I can lose no more. Silence and... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908
...darkness how profound! Nor eye nor list'ning ear an object finds: Creation sleeps. 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end. 25 And let her prophecy be soon fulfilled ! Fate, drop the curtain ! I can lose no more. Silence and... | |
 | Mary Gertrude Cushing - English language - 1908 - 317 pages
...darkness, how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds. Creation sleeps ! "lis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause ! prophetie of her end. And let her prophecy be soon fulfill'd ; Fate ! drop the curtain : I can lose... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - English literature - 1910 - 966 pages
...profound! 21 Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds; Creation sleeps. Tis as the general pulse Of lifa at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage. The hairy gown and mos »S And let her prophecy be soon fulfilled : Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more. Silence... | |
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Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end. 
