 Tis midnight's holy hour — and silence now Is brooding like a gentle spirit o'er The still and pulseless world. Hark! on the winds The bell's deep tones are swelling; 'tis the knell Of the departed year. No funeral train Is sweeping past; yet, on the...  Student and Family Miscellany - Page 661854Full view - About this book
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...accents, "Alatl we return no more." CXVm. — THE CLOSING TEAR. FROM PRENTICE. 1. 'T is midnight's holy hour, and silence now Is brooding, like a gentle spirit,...still and pulseless world. Hark! on the winds, The bell's deep tones are swelling; 't is the knell Of the departed year. No funeral train Is sweeping... | |
 | 1857 - 452 pages
...all thy good impart to all thy kind. STEELING. of 'Tis midnight's holy hour — and silence now, la brooding like a gentle spirit, o'er The still and pulseless world. Hark ! on the winds The bell's deep tones are swelling ; 'tis the knell Of the departing year. No funeral train Is sweeping... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...reject not this bill ! LESSON CCXIX. THE CLOSING YEAK. BY CIEOBGE D. PRENTICE. 1. 'Tis midnight's holy hour, and silence now Is brooding, like a gentle spirit,...still and pulseless world. Hark ! on the winds The bell's deep tones are swelling ; 'tis the knell Of the departed year. No funeral train Is sweeping... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 482 pages
...voice, peculiarly adapted in expressing sublime and pathetic emotions. EXAMPLES. 1. 'Tis midnight's holy hour — and silence now Is brooding like a gentle...still and pulseless world. Hark ! on the winds The bell's deep tones are swelling, — 'tis the knell Of the departed year ! 8. THE ASPIRATED TONE of... | |
 | Stephen Watkins Clark - 1859 - 320 pages
...often indicate the manner of an tut EXAMPLES. Phrases. — 1. God moves in a mysterious way." 2. " Silence now Is brooding like a gentle spirit o'er The still and pulseless world." 3. " Omar had passed seventy-five years in honor otU ptosperity." Sentences. — 4. "He died as he... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 pages
...speaking key. It is used in expressing emotions of reverence, awe, and sublimity; as, 'Tis midnight's holy hour, and silence now Is brooding, like a gentle spirit, o'er The still aud pulseless world. Hark! on the winds The bells' deep tones are swelling;—'tis the knell EXERCISE... | |
 | Charles William Everest - 1860 - 484 pages
...the rising blast ; I go, I go ; dear Ocean, fare thee well ! THE CLOSING YEAR. 'Tis midnight's holy hour, and silence now Is brooding like a gentle spirit...still and pulseless world. Hark ! on the winds The bell's deep tones are swelling : 't is the knell Of the departed year. No funeral train Is sweeping... | |
 | Stephen Watkins Clark - 1860 - 324 pages
...each, and which may or may not end with the same sound. EXAMPLE. — "Tis midnight's hoiy hour; ami silence now Is brooding, like a gentle spirit, o'er The still and pulseless world. Hark I on the winds The hell's deep tones are swelling; 'tis the knell Of the departed j-ear." DEF. 3. —... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1861 - 446 pages
...key. It is used in expressing emotions of reverence, awe, and sublimity ; as, 'Tis midnight's holy hour, and silence now Is brooding, like a gentle spirit,...bells' deep tones are swelling ; — 'tis the knell EXERCISE ON PITCH. Select a sentence, and deliver it on as low a key as possible; then repeat it, gradually... | |
 | Truman Rickard - 1863 - 152 pages
...Thus naked and unarmed. EXERCISE XIV. The Closing Year. — GEORGE D. PRENTICE. 'T is midnight's holy hour — and silence now Is brooding like a gentle...still and pulseless world. Hark ! on the winds The bell's deep tones are swelling — 't is the knell Of the departed year. No funeral train 5 Is sweeping... | |
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