 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 Nic-nac: Or, Literary Cabinet - Page 1041823Full view - About this book
 | Lady Catherine Pollock Manners Stepney - 1833 - 324 lehte
...as we estimate the fleeting hours, it is circumstantial notice that informs us on character : — ' 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. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1833 - 286 lehte
...I am dictating to you ? Go on." LESSON FORTY-EIGHTH. The Timepiece. The clock strikes one: we lake 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;... | |
 | Luke Hebert - 1835 - 816 lehte
...lens, set fire to the • powder, which discharges the gun, and thus announces the hour of noon. " We take no note of time but from its loss: To give it then a tongue is wise in man." Dials of this description are placed in the gardens of the Palais Royal, and of the Luxembourg. DIALLING.... | |
 | 1835 - 616 lehte
...wander among the wrecks and monuments of Tune — toread the epitaphs of hours and learn the moral. " We take no note of Time But from its loss — to give it then a tongue In man, is wiee." Each moment is a warning orator. It is profitable and even necessary to pause in... | |
 | Beasley - 1836 - 208 lehte
...Violet Woodville was able to number by years her absence from her own country. 10* vroiET, CHAPTER VL " We take no note of time, But from its loss — to give it then a tongue Is wise in man." Mv readers must suppose a few years to hare elapsed since the events we last recorded; and allow me... | |
 | lady Marianne Dora Malet - 1836 - 336 lehte
...and Violet Woodville was able to number by years her absence from her own country. CHAPTER XVII. " We take no note of time, But from its loss— to give it then a tongue Is wise in man." MY readers must suppose a few years to have elapsed since the events we last recorded; and allow me... | |
 | lady Marianne Dora Malet - 1836 - 336 lehte
...and Violet Woodville was able to number by years her absence from her own country. CHAPTER XVII. " We take no note of time, But from its loss— to give it then a tongue Is wise in man." MY readers must suppose a few years to have elapsed since the events we last recorded; and allow me... | |
 | lady Marianne Dora Malet - 1836 - 596 lehte
...; and Violet Woodville was able to number by years her absence from her own country. CHAPTER VI. " We take no note of time, But from its loss — to give it theu a tongue Is wise in man." MY readers must suppose a few years to have elapsed since the events... | |
 | Luke Hebert - 1836 - 814 lehte
...powder, which discharges the gun, and thus announces the hour of noon. " We take no note of time'but from its loss: To give it then a tongue is wise in man." Dials of this description are placed in the gardens of the Palais Royal, and of the Luxembourg. DIALLING.... | |
 | 1836 - 558 lehte
...her long arrear: Nor let the phial of thy vengeance, poured On this devoted head, be poured in vain. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from tts loss: to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke 1 feel the solemn sound. If... | |
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