| 1836 - 558 pagina’s
...her long arrear: Nor let the phial of thy vengeance, poured On this devoted head, be poured in vain. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from tts loss: to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke 1 feel the solemn sound. If... | |
| Daniel Harrison - 1837 - 188 pagina’s
...his age. Behold I when passed by, what then is seen But his broad pinions swifter than the wind?" " The bell strikes One. We take no note of Time But...its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man." ' Then Time turns torment when a man turns fooi." Night Thought*. To reduce days to hours. Rule. Double... | |
| Walter Scott - 1842 - 716 pagina’s
...first announced his death to the spectators. yu..» 4^'lJs«fJ».SIJlJMi!W ., H sis^fe* fcSgySKri^ VL. The bell strikes one. — We take no note of time...its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. At if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. YOUNG. HE moral which the poet has rather quaintly deduced... | |
| 1844 - 784 pagina’s
...tongue to time!" A'igkt JTumgllt. And in another — " The bell strikes one. We take no note of tirnt But from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man." Had. The thought seems to have arisen quite natntilly in his mind on hearing the tolling of a bell... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 440 pagina’s
...expression sounds deficient to the ear. , [xx] Example 1. " The bell | strikes | one. — We tike [00] no note of time, [ = ] But from its loss : to give it, then, a tongue, [ms] Is wise | in man. As if an angel | spoke II [pq] I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, * It... | |
| 1844 - 836 pagina’s
...one place — " How blest is he who first gare tongue to time!" Xighl Thoughts. And in another — " The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from ils loss : to give it ttren a tongue Is wise in man." Ibid. The thought seems to have arisen quite... | |
| George Willson - 1844 - 300 pagina’s
...of dirt, which human vanity has divided into climates and regions ? The bell strikes one. We take ho note of time, But from its loss : to give it then a tongueIs wise in man. As if an avigel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright It is the knell... | |
| Thomas Kibble Hervey - 1845 - 436 pagina’s
................... 219 Black Monday ................ 220 THE BOOK OF CHRISTMAS. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. We take no note of time, But from its loss ; — to give it, then, a tongue Is wise in man. DH. YOUSTG. To give a language to time, for the preservation of its records, and the utterance of its... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 pagina’s
...not far distant, when will bo heard, as the proudest exclamation of man: I am an American.—Maxcy. The bell strikes one: We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a vongue, la wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright. It Is the knell... | |
| Thomas Fisher - 1845 - 240 pagina’s
...advanced one day in the autobiography of existence and the accountabilities of human actors. " The clock strikes one ; We take no note of time, but from its loss : To give it then a tongue were wise in man." Let us now study with undivided attention the vivid picturesque reality which constitutes... | |
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