 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...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 - 1188 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 - 510 pages
...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 - 394 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 - Elocution - 1906 - 576 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 - 844 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 - 562 pages
...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 - 562 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1908 - 344 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... | |
 | Max Kaluza - English language - 1909 - 418 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 1—5. 18—25.) England, with all thy faults, I love thee still, My country... | |
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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. 
