 | John Prince - 1846 - 490 pages
...dread ! and darkness bow profound ! Nor eye nor listening car an object finds j Creation sleeps. :Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause." In the triumphal lyric poem, chanted by Deborah and Barak, to celebrate the victory of the children... | |
 | 1847 - 312 pages
..." Wheel the wild dance, till the morning break !" MOVEMENT Slowest: — " Creation sleeps: — 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature...made a pause, — An awful pause, — prophetic of her end ! " Slow: — "Now fades the glimmering landscape from the sight, And all the air a solemn... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the gen'ral pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. And let her prophecy be soon fulfill'd ; Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more. Silence,... | |
 | William Russell - 1848 - 94 pages
...•world. Silence, how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds : Creation sleeps. 'T is as the general pulse Of life...Nature made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end.' Slow. ' For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...dead ! and darkness how profound ' Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds. Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause — An awful pause, prophetic of her end ! " 23. " A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent like the Deity. If we take to... | |
 | 1848 - 310 pages
...— Stillness, and Awe. [NlOHT, FKOM THE " NlGHT THOUGHTS."] — YotOtg "Creation sleeps .- |||| 'tis as the general pulse of life | stood still || And...made a pause, || an awful pause, || || Prophetic of her end! " 5. — Solemnity, and Triumph. [CATC, EXULTING IN THE CONTEMPLATION OF THE IMMORTALITY OF... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1906 - 604 pages
...how dead! and darkness how profound! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds. Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause, — An awful pause, prophetic of her end. "Night Thoughts." YOUNG. COMMAND "Halt!" — the dust-brown ranks stood fast; "Fire !"—... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 pages
...dead ! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds; Creation sleeps. Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause; 2s An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. And let her prophecy be soon fulfilled ; Fate ! drop the... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 pages
...dead ! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause ; 25 An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. And let her prophecy be soon fulfilled ; Fate ! drop the... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pages
...slumbering world. 20 Silence how dead! and darkness how profound! Nor eye nor list'ning ear an object finds: Creation sleeps. 'T is as the general pulse Of life...Nature made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end. 25 And let her prophecy be soon fulfilled ! Fate, drop the curtain ! I can lose no more. Silence... | |
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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. 
