 | Dominic Barthel - Elocution - 1927 - 790 pages
...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...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!... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...vain. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue 55 Is aid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade;...the heart, or strike for honest fame; 410 Dear cha How much is to be done? My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down.... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - Philosophy - 1992 - 414 pages
...vain. 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, 1 feel the solemn...departed hours: Where are they? With the years beyond the flood.34 Friedrich von Hardenberg, that is, Novalis (1772—1804). A description of his works by a... | |
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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? With the years beyond the flood... 
