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" 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... "
The Gospel Treasury ... - Page 32
1810
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...sublime, and this sublimity is principally due to the 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, which made all ray bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before...
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Sketches from Nature: Taken, and Coloured, in a Journey to Margate ..., Volume 1

George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...with a cold chill of horror, and the hair of his flesh stands erect, and thus he describes it : — " 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...
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Dionysius Longinus On the Sublime

Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...with surprising art through the whole scene. There is a fine touch of this nature in Job iv. 13. " In " thoughts 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 passed...
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The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in Three Parts

John Blair Linn - Genius - 1802 - 196 pages
...13, 14, 15, 16, 17. " Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof, in thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men. Fear came upon me and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before...
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The Poems of Ossian, Volume 1

Bards and bardism - 1803 - 350 pages
...parallel among the Greek or Roman poets. They bring to mind that noble description in the book of Job : "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...
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Sacred hours; or, Extracts for private devotion & meditation, Volume 1

Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...that we die all. Job. Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. 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...
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The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson. To which are prefixed ..., Volume 1

Ossian - 1805 - 262 pages
...parallel among the Greek or Roman poets. They bring to mind that noble description in the book of Job : " In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep " sleep falleth upon men, fear came upon me, and " trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then " a spirit passed before...
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A Short and Plain Exposition of the Old Testament: With Devotional ..., Volume 4

Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...mine ear received a little thereof; some precious instruction concerning the will and word 13 of God. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, it happened in the night, when all was silent, 14 and my thoughts were composed / then Fear...
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The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson. Blair's critical ..., Volume 1

Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...parallel among the Greek or Roman poets. They bring to mind that noble description in the book of Job : " 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...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...awful obscurity. We may see this fully exemplified in the 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, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit " passed before...
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