 | Eighteenth century - 1909 - 196 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. And let that prophecy be soon fulfilled : Fate drop the curtain, I can lose no more. Impertinent people... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 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. This sacred shade, and solitude, what is it? 'Tis the felt presence of the Deity. Few are the faults... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...dead! and darkness, how profoundI Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds; Creation sleeps ! "Pis as the gen'ral pulse Of life stood still, and Nature...made a pause, An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. rhis sacred shade, and solitude, what is It? 'Tis the felt presence of the Deity. Few are the faults... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1913 - 264 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. Young: Night Thoughts. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - Poets, English - 1914 - 360 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...a pause : An awful pause ! prophetic of her end." Then follow the devout invocation and fervent prayer, to be succeeded by the solemn passage on the... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 852 pages
...world. Silence, how dead! and darkness, how profound! \or eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds; ю 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. is .Silence and... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 858 pages
...dead! and darkness, how profound! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds; Ю Creation sleeps. 'Tie as the gen'ral 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. is Silence and... | |
 | John Rutledge Scott - 1915 - 694 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. — Young — Night Thoughts. 3. What art thou that usurp'st this time of night, Together with that... | |
 | John Rutledge Scott - Elocution - 1915 - 692 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. — Young — Night Thoughts. 3. What art thou that usurp'st this time of night, Together with that... | |
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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. 
