 To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be...  Guy Mannering or the astrologer - Page 90by Walter Scott - 1896Full view - About this book
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1882 - 330 pages
...With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's...verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of... | |
 | Holy thoughts - 1882 - 744 pages
...— PASCAL. Eternity. — Alarmed at How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss — A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me — • Poor pensioner on the bounties... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English language - 1882 - 412 pages
...in onr hearts, known and read of all men. — 2 Cor. 3: 2. 8. My hopes and fears Start up alarin'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what? A fathomless abyss.' — Young. 9. Thrice unhappy he who, being born to see things as they might be, is schooled by circumstances... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - American poetry - 1884 - 430 pages
...is the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss. A dread eternity ! how surely mine I And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1884 - 408 pages
...With the years beyond the flood, It is the signal that demands despatch. How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge, Look down—on what? a fathomless abyss, A dread eternity !" Conviction seized the youth; alarmed and terrified,... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - English poetry - 1885 - 60 pages
...is the signal that demands despatch. How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss, A dread eternity ! " Young must have often hugged himself, even as he at random struck the instrument,... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 pages
...is the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Rise up alarmed, and, o'er life's narrow verge, Look down — on what ? a fathomless abyss, A dread eternity, — how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties... | |
 | Walter Scott - Astrologers - 1886 - 536 pages
...To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. YOUNG. THE moral which the poet has rather quaintly deduced from...fathomless abyss, A dark eternity, — how surely ours ! The crowd of assembled gazers and idlers at Ellangowan had followed the views of amusement, or what... | |
 | Homiletical illustrations - 1887 - 408 pages
...With the years beyond the flood, It is the signal that demands despatch. How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's...verge, Look down— on what? a fathomless abyss, A dread eternity ! " Conviction seized the youth ; alarmed and terrified, he left the dissipated throng,... | |
 | Benjamin Drew - Journalism - 1889 - 238 pages
...strictly grammatical point, the dash is used to denote a pause. My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss. The king of France, with twice ten thousand men, Marched up the hill, and then — marched down again.... | |
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