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To orisons, the midnight bell Had toll'd each silent inmate from his cell; The hour was come to muse or pray, Or work mysterious rites that shun the day: My steps some whis'pring influence led, Up to yon pine-clad mountain's gloomy head: Hollow and deep the gust did blow, And torrents dash'd into the vales below.
So the next day they went with weeping Tears to the Clark of the Parish to order the Bell to be toll'd. They then, who had gone forth as Mourners came back rejoycing, and set to by all means to revive their Prodigal. Whereupon they were instant with him to learn his Meaning, and where his Company should be that went so sore against his Stomach.
Sure it cannot be that time yet? The mad old sexton has toll'd evensong an hour too soon." "In faith, the bell rings but too justly the hour," said Cunningham; "yonder the sun is sinking on the west side of the fair plain." "Ay," said the Lord Crawford, "is it even so? Well, lads, we must live within compass.
During this solemn period, rendered more awful by the tremendous storm that shook the air, she frequently addressed herself to Heaven for support and protection, and her pious prayers, we may believe, were accepted of the God, that giveth comfort. The midnight clock has toll'd; and hark, the bell Of Death beats slow! heard ye the note profound?
We are sometimes alarmed by reports that parties of the enemy are approaching the town, when the gates are shut, and the great bell is toll'd; but I do not perceive that the people are violently apprehensive about the matter. Their fears are, I believe, for the most part, rather personal than political they do not dread submission to the Austrians, but military licentiousness.
Why, here stands honest Henry Smith, who was lamented as dead, and toll'd out for from every steeple in town, alive, merry, and, as it seems from his ruddy complexion, as like to live as any man in Perth. And here is my precious daughter, that yesterday would speak of nothing but the wickedness of the wights that haunt profane sports and protect glee maidens. Ay, she who set St. Valentine and St.
We are sometimes alarmed by reports that parties of the enemy are approaching the town, when the gates are shut, and the great bell is toll'd; but I do not perceive that the people are violently apprehensive about the matter. Their fears are, I believe, for the most part, rather personal than political they do not dread submission to the Austrians, but military licentiousness.
The moral culpability of late rising is when it interferes with the necessary duties of the day; and though, my fair readers, you may in a great measure claim exemption from these, I would still, simply in reference to your health and complexions, advise you not to exceed seven o'clock. "The curfew toll'd the parting knell of day,"
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