 | Edward Young - Didactic poetry, English - 1837 - 556 pages
...o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead! and 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 awfu! pause! prophetic of her end. And let her prophecy be soon fulfill'd: Fate! drop the curtain;... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...Young — who has ever surpassed the awful and well-known description of the silence of night ? — " Creation sleeps ; 'tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause." — Night Third. Or the vivid portrait of a person terrified at his perilous situation, where " hopes... | |
 | Edward Young - 1837 - 310 pages
...dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. "I'is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pauie : An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. • 95 And lot her prophecy be soon fulfill'd : Fate... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...a slumbering world : Silence, how dead ! and darkness, how profound 1 Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds : Creation sleeps. — 'Tis as the general...pause— An awful pause — prophetic of her end. LIVELY. In thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty ; And if I give thee honour... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...a slumbering world. Silence, how dead ! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds ; Creation sleeps. Tis as the general...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 in... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1838 - 400 pages
...Nature's birth, And Nature's shield the shadow of his hand ; and the impressive description of night: Creation sleeps ; 'tis as the general pulse Of life...nature made a pause ; An awful pause ; prophetic of its end ; are all inspired by a spirit of equal dignity and power. The last lines, Mrs. Piozzi informs... | |
 | 1838 - 606 pages
...alike suspended. Every thing is quiet and in a state of deep repose. " Creation sleeps ; 'tis as if the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause." So also with the spiritual sleeper; — the stillness of death is upon him. None of the powers of his... | |
 | Henry De la Pasture - 1839 - 948 pages
...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 ; An awful pause ! — prophetic of her end. I wake, emerging from a scene of dreams Tumultuous ; where my wrecked desponding thought From wave... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...a slumb'ring world. Silence how dead ! " and darkness how profound ! Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general...made a pause : An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. — Young. • LESSON XXXII. ;r ... What is Education. — ANONTMOUS. 1 THIS may seem a very simple... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead! and darkness how profound! i Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds : Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general...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... | |
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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. 
