 | Religion - 1845 - 600 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." This law of rest must be'obeyed. There is no muscular frame so powerful that it can be disregarded;... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...how profound^ Nor eye', nor listening earv, 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\ The bell strikes onev. We take no note' of time But from its lossv. To give it then a tongue' Is wisev... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 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. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise... | |
 | Religion - 1845 - 1174 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." This law of rest must be obeyed. There is no muscular frame so powerful that it can be disregarded;... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 424 pages
...Stillness and Awe . [Night, from the " Night Thoughts."] " Creation sleeps : || || 't is 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 in the contemplation of the immortality of the soul.]... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 374 pages
...Stillness and Awe. [Night, from the "Night Thoughts."] " Creation sleeps : ||| 't is as the general pulse of life | stood still | And nature made a pause, || an awful pause, || j| Prophetic of her end! " 5. — Solemnity, and Triumph. [Cato, exulting in the contemplation of... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1846 - 390 pages
...darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear can object find : Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end. 13. This is the place, the centre of the grove : Here stands the oak, the monarch of the wood. How... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 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. And let her prophecy be soon fulfill'd ; Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more. Silence, and... | |
 | Elocution - 1847 - 312 pages
...wild dance, till the morning break !" MOVEMENT Slowest: — " Creation sleeps: — 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause, — An awful pause, — prophetic of her end ! " Slow: — "Now fades the glimmering landscape from the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness... | |
 | Irish scenes - 1847 - 170 pages
...island, a scene of rich luxuriance and tranquillity ; such perfect tranquillity ! It seemed — " As if the gen'ral pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause ;" though there could have been but little pause in her more secret operations, for the arbutus and... | |
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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. 
