| 1838 - 938 Seiten
...their depth and their overshadowings — yet show the stars. " Silence and Darkness ! solemn sisters I twins From ancient Night, who nurse the tender thought,...resolve, That column of true majesty in man, Assist me !" To sing a cheerful song — a merry roundelay ? No — such a song as may help to save his soul... | |
| Edward Young - 1839 - 300 Seiten
...'Tis as the gen'ral pulse An awful pause! prophetic of her end. And let her prophecy be soon fulnll'd: Fate! drop the curtain; I can lose no more. Silence...tender thought \To reason, and on reason build resolve, l(That column of true majesty in man) Assist me: I will thank you in the grave; The grave your kingdom:... | |
| Edward Young - 1839 - 324 Seiten
...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...Darkness ! solemn sisters ! twins From ancient Night, who nnrse the tender thought To reason, and on reason build resolve, (That column of true majesty in man)... | |
| Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1839 - 616 Seiten
...importance to the successful pursuit of truth, which we shall consider in our next. RR THE POWER OF SILENCE. '•Silence and Darkness! solemn sisters; twins From...ancient Night, who nurse the tender thought To reason." YOUNG. IT seems not a little remarkable that our inquirers after truth, and our writers upon logic... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 370 Seiten
...and at this hour, commencing his strain, with a majesty worthy of its aims and end, he calls upon " Silence and darkness, solemn sisters, twins From ancient...thank you in the grave — The grave, your kingdom " Following the course of the sombre inspiration that he adjures, he then passes in a vast review before... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 Seiten
...fulfill'd ; ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more. Icnce and darkness ! solemn sisters ! twins i ancient night, who nurse the tender thought ! To reason,...; The grave, your kingdom : there this frame shall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine. [fall But what are ye ! — Thou who didst put to flight Primeval... | |
| Elizabeth M. Stewart - 1843 - 342 Seiten
...fantastic ornaments in wood and plaster. CHAPTER II. •' Silence, and darkness 1 solemn sisters twins 1 From ancient night who nurse the tender thought, To...resolve ; That column of true majesty in man, Assist me 1" YOCNO. IT was with feelings of the utmost alarm, that John Harding, being awakened by repeated knockings,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 Seiten
...Nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. And let her prophecy be soon fulfilled : the ground upon a little straw, in the furthest comer...bed : a little calendar of small sticks lay at th ou reason build resolve (That column of true majesty in man), Assist me : I will thank you in the grave... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 Seiten
...Nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. And let her prophecy be soon fulfilled : ine, Thy hands their little force resign ; Yet gently...Such feebleness of limbs thou prov'st, That now at e rearen, and on reason build resolve (That column of true majesty in man), Assist me : I will thank... | |
| Maria Jane McIntosh - 1843 - 234 Seiten
...over his own spirit is like a city that i broken down and without walls." — Prmerla, xxv., 28. " And on reason build resolve, That column of true majesty in man." YOUNO. NEW-YORK. HARPER * BROTHERS, S3 OI, IF FS T. THE SEW PUBLIC in T1UIBN f "• B 1.4-1 Entered,... | |
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