 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 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...then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke 1 feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they? With... | |
 | 1822 - 430 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...loss : to give it then a tongue - "Is wise in man" Night 1. There is, I think, much good sense in these lines ; — sense which comes home to our hearts... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 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...from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in num. As if an angel spoke I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...treasure, As misers to their gold, while others sleep. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But by its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spake I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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? 
