 E'en from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee ; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move : And, if so fair, from vanity as free, As firm in friendship, and as fond in love, Tell them, though 'tis an awful...  Musings of a Recluse ... - Page 55by John Barton Derby - 1837 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Rebecca Nathan (fict.name.) - 1844 - 256 pages
...than was his daughter. CHAPTER 111. 'Tis an awful thing to die ! ('Twas ev'n to thee) yet the dreadful path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals...high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God." Anon. PERHAPS at no time of our lives do we derive more present pleasure from the anticipation of the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas even ng tree ; 0 ! the joys that came down shower-like, Of Friendship, Love, and Liberty, I ii с U ' the pure iu heart behold their God.' OLIVER GOLDSMITH. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, whose writings... | |
 | 1846 - 636 pages
...lines were written by Gray :— Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ("I'wMs e'en to t hoi;,) yet the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting...high, And bids ' the pure in heart behold their God.' " We learn from the same unquestionable quarter, (the Reminiscences of the Rev. Norton Nicholls,) that... | |
 | 1846 - 782 pages
...them, though '(is an awful thing to die, (' I'was e'en to thee) yet the dread path once trod, Heav'n lifts its everlasting 'portals high, And bids 'the pure -in heart behold their God.'" We learn from the same unquestionable quarter (the Reminiscences of the Rev. Norton Nicholls), that... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ("Fwas e'en to thee) yet the dread path once trod, Heav'n lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids 'the pure in heart behold their God.' " We learn from the same unquestionable quarter (the Reminiscences of the Rev. Norton Nicholls), that... | |
 | 1846 - 784 pages
...them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, (' I'was e'en to thee) yet the dread path once trod, Heav'n lifts its everlasting 'portals high, And bids ' the pure in heart behold their God."1 "We learn from the same unquestionable quarter (the Reminiscences of the Rev. Norton Nicholls),... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...part. Tell them, though 'tis an awful *Vln{j to die' — I'Twas even to thee') — yet, the d»csd path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids " the pure in heart buhold their God." SERIES. A series is a number of particulars, immediately following one another,... | |
 | Lionel Watt Gully - 1849 - 138 pages
...As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them tho' 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas ev'n to thee,) yet the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts...high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God." The other is from the life-breathing chisel of Bacon to the memory of Mrs. Eliza Draper, aged 35, —... | |
 | John Mitchell Mason - 1849 - 616 pages
...all the sorrows of earth's pilgrimage ended, and all its defilements washed away, "Heaven lifts her everlasting portals high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God!" LIVING FAITH. A SEKMON, PREACHED BEFORE THE SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE DESTITUTE SICK. OP THE EVENING... | |
 | 1850 - 340 pages
...firm in friendship, and as fond in love ; Tell them, though 't is an awful thing to die, ('T was even to thee) — yet the dread path once trod, HEAVEN...high, And bids the pure in heart behold their GOD. THE PARISH PRIEST. A PARISH Priest was of the pilgrim train, An awful, reverend, and religious man... | |
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