The Bell strikes One. We take no Note of Time, But from its Loss. To give it then a Tongue, : B5 Is wise in Man. Proceedings - Page 37by Scotland free church, gen. assembly - 1847Full view - About this book
| Harvey Marriott - 1859 - 284 pages
...up the solemn lay, Sing His blest Name, then soar away, And ask an angel's lyre. • OGILVIE. TIME. THE bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from his loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If... | |
| Frederic Dan Huntington - Christian life - 1860 - 544 pages
...midnight, heard the clock strike one. It brought instantly to his mind words he had once read. • " The bell strikes one, — we take no note of time But from its loss. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hoars. "Where arc they?" And that course of sober thinking,... | |
| sir Matthew Digby Wyatt - 1861 - 202 pages
...Though small it appear ; Small sands make the mountain, And moments the year." FOE A BELL-TURRET. " We take no note of time But from its loss ; to give it then a tongue Is wise in man." YOUNG'S Night Tliougkts. " Do not fear to put thy feet Naked in the river sweet ; Think nor leach,... | |
| Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...has an equal share. We do not, however, like the sly and subtle manner in which it slips away. — The bell strikes one : we take no note of time, But from its loss. — Young. — Time, says Imagination, is an isthmus that rises up between two mighty oceans of a gone... | |
| Andrew Steel - English poetry - 1863 - 266 pages
...that's filthy, filthy shall remain, Or holy, shall that character sustain. TWELVE O'CLOCK— MIDNIGHT. "The bell strikes one: we take no note of time, But...its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man." Dr Young. O'HE clock strikes twelve! — with melancholy plea^ sure, Hail to its solemn monitory chime... | |
| 1863 - 588 pages
...PRESBYTERIAN MAGAZINE. JANUAKY 1863. ЗШшИппшя dunrnmuniratintts. A NEW YEAR AND ANOTHER WARNING. ' We take no note of time But from its loss : to give it then a tongue, Is wise in man.' — YOUNG. ' О wicked man, thon shall surely die.' — EZEKIEL xxxiii. 8. THESE words form part of... | |
| Tales - 1863 - 252 pages
...us. CHAPTEE III. THE FIRST ENGLISH TIME-PIECE. " Ttte bell tolls one ! we take no note of time Bnf jy its loss.— To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man." JOT long after his return to England, Alfred had the misfortune to lose his fond parent; and we leave... | |
| John Purdue Bidlake - 1863 - 224 pages
...chained, unarmed, or bed-rid old, Perhaps I should revile.' • ^— — We take no note of time, But by its loss ; to give it then a tongue Is wise in man.' • What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is weak, raise and support.' EXERCISES. 1. Verbs are often... | |
| Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1864 - 210 pages
...— Scott. 14. " He that complies against his will, Is of Lis own opinion still." — Butler. 15. " The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But...its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man." — Young. 16. " A thing of beauty is a joy for ever ; Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass... | |
| Ann Jane - 1864 - 708 pages
...doubtless be enlivened with his mirth and wisdom. Old Jonathan. London: Collingridge. THE FLIGHT OP TIME. " We take no note of time But from its loss ; to give it then a tongue Is wise in man." TIME, ever rolling time, writes the fadeless impress of decay everywhere, and upon everything we behold... | |
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