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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? "
The Plain Englishman [ed. by C. Knight and E.H. Locker]. - Page 430
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The Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine; and Annals of Philosophy, Volume 1

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...
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Noctes Atticæ, or Reveries in a garret; containing observations on men and ...

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...
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Noctes Atticae: Or, Reveries in a Garret; Containing Short, and Chiefly ...

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 Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the ...

Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...Admiration, 9 Pity, !0 Admiration, " Awe, with " Fear, and 13 Astonishment ; " Dread, 15 Exultation. 1 The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But...its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. a As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours...
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The Complaint: Or Night Thoughts, and the Force of Religion

Edward Young - 1826 - 318 pages
...note of time 55 But from its loss : to give it theft a tongue Is wise in ruan. As if an angol spoke 1 feel the Solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. ON LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY. 7 Look down — or. what ? A fathrtmless abyss. A dread eternity !...
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The Complaint: Or Night Thoughts, and the Force of Religion

Edward Young - Didactic poetry, English - 1826 - 284 pages
...devoted head, be poured in vain. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time 55 But from its !oss : to give, it then a tongue Is wise in man As if an apgel spoke I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Whei-3...
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 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...despatch: How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down—on what ? A fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity...
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Waverley Novels, Volume 3

Walter Scott - 1829 - 362 pages
...saw his eye fix and felt his pulse stop, first announced his death to the spectators. CHAPTER XIV. The bell strikes one. — We take no note of time...man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. — YOUNQ. THE .moral, which the poet has rather quaintly deduced from the necessary mode of measuring...
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The Christian Mariner's Journal; Or, a Series of Observations and ...

Christian Mariner, Christian mariner - 1829 - 290 pages
...the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer."—REV. x. 5, 6. " The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But...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...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...solemnity of death, and the unspeakable importance of a preparation for eternity. REFLECTIONS AT MIDNIGHT. THE bell strikes One. We take no note of time But...years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge...
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