 | Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 352 pages
...slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear can object find : Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life...Nature made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end. 13. This is the place, the centre of the grove: Here stands the oak, the monarch of the wood.... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...world. Silence, how dead ! and darkness, how profound Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life...Nature made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue,... | |
 | 1845 - 600 pages
...world. Silence, how dread ! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds : Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life...nature made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end." This law of rest must be'obeyed. There is no muscular frame so powerful that it can be disregarded;... | |
 | 1845 - 1174 pages
...world. Silence, how dread ! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds : Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life...nature made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end." This law of rest must be obeyed. There is no muscular frame so powerful that it can be disregarded;... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 pages
...world\ Silencev, how dead'! and darkness', how profound^ Nor eye', nor listening earv, an object finds ; Creation sleeps.^ 'Tis as the general pulse Of life...nature made a pause\ An awful' pause ! prophetic of her end\ The bell strikes onev. We take no note' of time But from its lossv. To give it then a tongue'... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 424 pages
...amaze." 4. — Stillness and Awe . [Night, from the " Night Thoughts."] " Creation sleeps : || || 't is as the general pulse of life | stood still | And nature...made a pause, || an awful pause, || || Prophetic of her end! " 5. — Solemnity, and Triumph. [Cato, exulting in the contemplation of the immortality of... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 374 pages
...amaze." 4. — Stillness and Awe. [Night, from the "Night Thoughts."] " Creation sleeps : ||| 't is as the general pulse of life | stood still | And nature made a pause, || an awful pause, || j| Prophetic of her end! " 5. — Solemnity, and Triumph. [Cato, exulting in the contemplation of... | |
 | 1848 - 660 pages
...calm his agitated mind. The evening was suitable for meditation ; as Dr. Young says, " 'Twas as if the general pulse of life stood still, and nature made a pause." While contemplating the heavens above, and the earth beneath, he was led to exclaim, what beauty! what... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 552 pages
...dread ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor list'ning ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tie as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a panse ; An awful pause! prophetic of her end." Again, his appeal to the Divine Inspirer of his solemn... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1846 - 390 pages
...slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear can object find : Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life...Nature made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end. 13. This is the place, the centre of the grove : Here stands the oak, the monarch of the wood.... | |
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Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end. 
