...slumbering world. Silence, how dread ! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds : Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general...made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end." This law of rest must be'obeyed. There is no muscular frame so powerful that it can be disregarded;...

...o'er a slumbering world. Silence, how dead ! and darkness how profound I Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds : Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general...pause, — An awful pause, — prophetic of her end." Slotf. " Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering...

...slumbering world\ Silencev, how dead'! and darkness', how profound^ Nor eye', nor listening earv, an object finds ; Creation sleeps.^ 'Tis as the general...made a pause\ An awful' pause ! prophetic of her end\ The bell strikes onev. We take no note' of time But from its lossv. To give it then a tongue' Is wisev...

...slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear can object find : Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life...made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end. 13. This is the place, the centre of the grove: Here stands the oak, the monarch of the wood. How sweet...

...amaze." 4. — Stillness and Awe . [Night, from the " Night Thoughts."] " Creation sleeps : || || 't is as the general pulse of life | stood still | And nature...pause, || an awful pause, || || Prophetic of her end! " 5. — Solemnity, and Triumph. [Cato, exulting in the contemplation of the immortality of the soul.]...

...amaze." 4. — Stillness and Awe. [Night, from the "Night Thoughts."] " Creation sleeps : ||| 't is as the general pulse of life | stood still | And nature made a pause, || an awful pause, || j| Prophetic of her end! " 5. — Solemnity, and Triumph. [Cato, exulting in the contemplation of...

...dread ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor list'ning ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tie as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a panse ; An awful pause! prophetic of her end." Again, his appeal to the Divine Inspirer of his solemn...

...calm his agitated mind. The evening was suitable for meditation ; as Dr. Young says, " 'Twas as if the general pulse of life stood still, and nature made a pause." While contemplating the heavens above, and the earth beneath, he was led to exclaim, what beauty! what...

...slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear can object find : Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life...made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end. 13. This is the place, the centre of the grove : Here stands the oak, the monarch of the wood. How...

...dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds : Creation sleeps. 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature...pause, — An awful pause, — prophetic of her end." Slow. " Beneath those nigged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering...