| Asa Humphrey - Literature - 1847 - 238 pages
...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...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 narrow verge... | |
| British and foreign sailors' society - 1847 - 614 pages
...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...years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done I " Learned and good men have at various periods devoted their attention... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 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 1 a fathomless abyss ! A dread eternity... | |
| Allen Hayden Weld - English language - 1848 - 120 pages
...To give2 it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, > Rule XI. «Rule IV. Rem.3. • I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the...years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears 5 Start up alarm'd and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...not till then, — and no one can proclaim the hour — I too shall go to the place of all living. I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the...Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood. 1. It is the signal that demands dispatch ; — How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up... | |
| 1849 - 192 pages
...hours ; Where are they 1 with the years beyond the flood : It is the signal that demands dispatch: How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start...— On what 1 a fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! Conviction seized the youth. Alarmed and terrified, he left the dissipated throng, and retired to... | |
| Edward J. Hallock - English language - 1849 - 262 pages
...of time But from its loss ; to give3 it tflen a tongue Is wise in manj As if an angel spoke, 1 hear the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell...Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood. Eve lamenting the loss of Paradise. O unexpected stroke,5 worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thec... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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...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... | |
| Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - English language - 1850 - 130 pages
...an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : 5 Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood....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 ! 10 A dread eternity... | |
| Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1850 - 942 pages
...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...hours Where are they with the years beyond the flood. 1 . Point the passage accurately. 2. Supply its ellipses. 3. I ijvi.li- into mnjor and minor clauses,... | |
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