 | Allen Hayden Weld - English language - 1848 - 120 pages
...how profound ! Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds: 25 Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. tRule IV, Rem 6. « Rule XII. 'Rule XIII. And let her prophecy be soon fulfill'd : Fate ! drop the... | |
 | William Russell - 1848 - 94 pages
...darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening 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.' Slow. ' For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 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 ! " 23. " A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent like the Deity. If we take to ourselves... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 578 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 fulfilled : Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more. Silence and... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1849 - 320 pages
...Stillness, and Awe. [NlOHT, FROM THE " NlGHT THOU&HTS."] YffUllg "Creation sleeps : |||l 'tis as the general pulse of life | stood still || And nature made a pause, || an awful pause, || || Prophetic of her end! " 5. — Solemnity, and Triumph. [CiTO, EXDLTINO IN THE CONTEMPLATION OF THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.]... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 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. S3 And let her prophecy be soon fulfill'd Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more. Silence and... | |
 | Edward J. Hallock - English language - 1849 - 262 pages
...darkness how profound ! Nor3 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 fulfilled ; Fate drop the curtain ; I can lose no more.. Silence and darkness... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...Stillness, and Awe. [NlOHT, FROM THE " NlGHT THOUGHTS."] — "Creation sleeps : |||| 'tis as the general pulse of life | stood still || And nature made a pause, || an awful pause, || || Prophetic of her end! " 5. — Solemnity, and Triumph. [CATO, EXULTING m THE CONTEMPLATION OF THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.]... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - Elocution - 1849 - 356 pages
...Nor - eye - nor - listening - ear - an object - finds. Creation - sleeps. 'Tis - as - the general - pulse Of - life - stood - still, - and - nature -...pause,— An awful - pause, - prophetic - of - her - end. II. The next degree of relation subsists between prepositions and the noons to which they refer ; a... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1849 - 446 pages
...unprotected state, and bring with them a faint and obscure image of death and danger. " 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause — An awful pause ! prophetic of her end." Infinity, perhaps, raises the idea of the sublime, by mixing the wonderful with terror: at least, I... | |
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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. 
