 In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern...  Cyclopædia of English literature - Page 219by Robert Chambers - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my Jlesh stood up. It stood still, but I could not discern...voice, — Shall mortal man be more just than God ? We are first prepared with the utmost solemnity for the vision ; we are first terrified, before we... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...following noble passage of the book of Job. "In thoughts from the visions of the night, " when deep sleep falleth upon men, fear came upon me, and " trembling,...than God ?"* (Job iv. 15.) No ideas, it is plain, are so sublime as those taken from the Supreme Being ; the most unknown, but the greatest of all objects... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1807 - 904 pages
...ancient apparition mentioned either in history or poetry, which is told in these words : " Whea deep sleep falleth upon men, fear came upon me, and trembling,...mine eyes-, 'there was silence, and I heard a voice." * . f There are not, perhaps, many, instances of relations delivered in language more truly sublime... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 504 pages
...the most ingenious artist. " In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made...mine eyes ; there was silence, and I heard a voice." In fact, persons of real candour, who are capable of discerning, and of giving attention to the beauties... | |
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1812 - 282 pages
...from the visions of the night, when deep sleep " falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trem" bling, which made all my bones to shake. " Then a spirit...voice — Shall mortal man be more "just than God*!" As Ossian's supernatural beings are described • Job, iv. 13.— 17with a surprising force of imagination,... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1813 - 326 pages
...ancient apparition mentioned either in histoiy or poetry, which is told in these words : " When deep sleep falleth upon men, fear came upon me, and trembling,...mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice." * There are not, perhaps, many instances of relations delivered in language more truly sublime as well... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - English literature - 1813 - 332 pages
...ancient apparition mentioned either in history or poetry, which is told in these words : " When deep sleep falleth upon men, fear came upon me, and trembling,...mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice." z • There are not, perhaps, many instances of relations delivered in language more truly sublime... | |
 | 1814 - 564 pages
...upon me, and trembling which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; and the hair of my flesh stood up : it stood still, but...mine eyes ; there was silence, and I heard a voice." Job. " And it came to pass, that there werethuuders and lightnings, and a thick eloud upon the mount,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 362 pages
...terrible uncertainty of the thing described : In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, fear came upon me and trembling,...voice, — Shall mortal man be more Just than God? We are first prepared with the utmost solemnity for the vision ; we are first terrified, before we... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...In thoughts from the visions of the " night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, fear came upon rne, and " trembling, which made all my bones to shake....voice — Shall "mortal man be more just than God ?"f (Job iv. 15.) no ideas, it is plain, are so sublime as those taken from the supreme being; the... | |
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