...and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor list'ning ear an object finds : Creation sleeps. 'Tis as if the gen'ral pulse Of life stood still, and nature...made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end. 85. 'Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of tempests and the dangers of the deep, And pause...

...wind ; and giants shook their brawny arms on the icy peaks, — " Creation slept. 'Twas as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause, An awful pause ! prophetic of her end." Early in the morning, before a solar ray had glistened on the mountain tops, we reached the cold summit...

...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. 1] 15 And lot her prophecy be soon fulfill'd Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more. Silence...

...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 I prophetic of her end." Infinity, perhaps, raises the idea of the sublime, by mixing the wonderful...

...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. " Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering...

...apocalyptic type : Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound l ... Creation sleeps. Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end.4 This seemed original, though fantastic and disconnected. Some praised the freshness and singularity...

...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." Morning is resurrection. Beaming with awak-< ened glories the world rises as from an abyss of darkness...

...Nature were listening for some whisper to her from the Infinite ! Creation sleeps : 'tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause, An awful pause — prophetic of her doom. Nowhere, so far as our reading goes, has the awe of such a time and the soul's response to it...

...Britisher extends the hand of sympathy to all Americans in this sad affair." '"Twas as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause. An awful pause ! Prophetic of her end." PAUSE OF A CONTINENT. Solemn and impressive beyond the power of words to describe was that deathlike...

...Britisher extends the hand of sympathy to all Americans in this sad affair." "'Twas as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause. An awful pause ! Prophetic of her end." PAUSE OF A CONTINENT. Solemn and impressive beyond the power of words to describe was that deathlike...