 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...  Reports on Elementary schools - Page 739by Her MAjesty' Inspectors of schools - 1850Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...future peace; And think'st thou still thou canst be wise too soon ? sleep Young. THOUGHTS OK TIME. THE BELL strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss: to give it then a tongue I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, Is wise in man. As if... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...general pulse Of life stood still', and nature made a pause\ An awful' pause I prophetic of her end'. 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 sound'.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...her long arrear: Nor let the phial of thy vengeancej 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 man. As if an angel spoke, 1 feel the eolemn sound. If... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...and the fervour of its piety. Dr. • Young died at his living of Welwyn, in 1765, aged 84.] '.....' 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.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 412 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 man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound.... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...rash alarm of fear, And sudden grkf, and rage, and sudden joy. YOUNG. NIGHT THOUGHTS. — Night 1. 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.... | |
 | 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 from its loss : to give it then a tongue - "Is wise in man" Night 1. There is, I think, much good sense... | |
 | 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 from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke 1 feel the solemn sound. If... | |
 | 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 from its loss : to give it then a tongue "Is wise in man" Night 1. There is, I think, much good sense in... | |
 | 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 from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound.... | |
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