 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 páginas
...meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And,...to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be pass'd ! Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose... | |
 | sir Thomas Bernard (bart.) - 1813 - 214 páginas
...age and infirmity, to the poorest and humblest Christian, — who Sinks to the grave by unpercelv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaTen commences 'ere this world be past. IN adopting the form of a dialogue passing between eminent... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 páginas
...meet bis latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way, And...last, His heaven commences ere the world be past! Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose : There, as... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 640 páginas
...meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way ; And...last, His heaven commences ere the world be past." We have mentioned that in autumn the ivy blossoms. The bright yellowish-green flowers, emblems of truth... | |
 | 1814 - 310 páginas
...meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay. While resignation gently slopes the way ; And,...the last, His Heaven commences ere the world be past ! Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1874 - 608 páginas
...Sinks to the grave with unperceived demy, While resignation gently slopes the way ; 1 Isaiah xlL 19. And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past." The main design and purpose of Divine prophecy is not to give vain inquirers a foreknowledge of what... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 882 páginas
...friend, Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way, And all bis prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences, ere the world be past. This envied portion of human felicity was not granted to Mr. Clarke. The evening of his dav was overcast... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 páginas
...meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend— Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And...last, His heaven commences ere the world be past! Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There, as... | |
 | Sir Thomas Bernard - 1818 - 292 páginas
...age and infirmity, to the poorest and humblest Christian, — who Sinks to the grave by unperceiv'd decay While resignation gently slopes the way ; And...brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere this world be past. IN adopting the form of a dialogue passing between eminent men of the same period,... | |
 | 1818 - 724 páginas
...meet hislatterentl, Angels themselves befriending Virtue's friend ; Sinks to the earth with ' gradual' decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way And all his prospects brightening at the ... . '«*. [past." His neav n commences ere this world be A cheerful piety, indeed, was the... | |
| |
But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be... 
