 | David Tenney Kimball - Ipswich (Mass.) - 1823 - 120 pages
...I acknowledge myself under great obligations for its constant and faithful friendship. ' The clock strikes one. We take no note of time But from its...man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound.' A bell, presented to the town by Hon. Richard Salstonstall, was rung in 1659 at nine o'clock in the... | |
 | Edward Young - Bible - 1823 - 326 pages
...no note of time But from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, 1 feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the...hours. Where are they? With the years beyond the flood. Her ceaselessflight, though devious, speaks her nature Of subtler essence than the trodden clod ; Active,... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 442 pages
...now quote some lines which may be read, I think, more than once, yet not tire the ear nor the mind. " The bell strikes one ! We take no note of time " But...its loss : to give it then a tongue "Is wise in man" Night 1. There is, I think, much good sense in these line? ; — sense which comes home to our hearts... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...wide ocean, Which hath no bounding shore to mark its progress. Joanna Baillie's Rayner, a. 5, s. 2. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But...years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ! Young's Night Thoughts, n. 1. Youth is not rich in time, it may... | |
 | 1824 - 492 pages
...addressed. Sold by every Bookseller and Newsvender in the Kingdom. J. CURLL, PWNTM. MECHANICS' MAGAZINE. * The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Were wise in man."— Young. No. III. Saturday, Ylth January, 1824. Price Sd. MR. PATTISON'S IMPROVED... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 pages
...having written the following lines, he repeated them in unison to the music of the church tower — The bell strikes one, — we take no note of time...man : as if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound, &c. Burying in Churches. So early as the times of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors, this abominable practice... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 pages
...lines, he repeated them in unison to the music of the church tower— • The bell strikes one,—we take no note of time But from its loss; to give it...man; as if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound, &c. Burying in Churches. So early as the times of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors, this abominable practice... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...Admiration, 9 Pity, !0 Admiration, " Awe, with " Fear, and 13 Astonishment ; " Dread, 15 Exultation. 1 The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But...its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. a As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours... | |
 | Edward Young - Didactic poetry, English - 1826 - 284 pages
...take no note of time 55 But from its !oss : to give, it then a tongue Is wise in man As if an apgel spoke I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Whei-3 are they ? With the years beyond tho flood. GO It is the signal that demands despatch : " ".... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...her long arrear : Nor let the phial of thy vengeance, pour'd On this devoted head, be pour'd in vain. The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But...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 !... | |
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The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. 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? 
