 | Joan Aiken - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 112 pages
...be predisposed in favour of that story! Keeping them interested Creation sleeps. Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause1 Edward Young, Night thoughts Sometimes your story seems to come to a halt. This is known as... | |
 | Francesco Orlando - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 520 pages
...night: 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...nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.448 More than half a century later, in the first of Novalis's Hymns to the Night (Hymnen an die... | |
 | Elisabeth Le Guin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 375 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 her prophecy be soon fulfill'd: Fate! drop the curtain; I can lose no more. Boyé wisely says... | |
 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2006 - 302 pages
...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 of Young in general,... | |
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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. 
