 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
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...conscience and endless infamy. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die', ('Twas even to wee' /) yet, the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting...And bids '' the pure in heart behold their God.'' (6.) For these reasons the senate and the people of Athens' (with due veneration to the gods and heroes,... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 288 pages
...firm in friendship, and as fond in love. 6 Tell them, though '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." DEFINITIONS, &c. — Defiue best, gift, fount, bore, bowed, sympathetic, duty's sphere, (sphere of... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twos even to thee) yet the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts...high, And bids 'the pure in heart behold their God.' Inture ilje ˆljirtij-figljtlj. MASE AEENSIDE—THOMAS BLACELOCE—FRANCIS FAWXES—JAMES GRANIGER—... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, (Twas even n well recall what then it heard. Where is thy native simple heart, Devote to virtue, fanc ' tue pure in heart behold their God.' OLIVER GOLDSMITH. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, whose writings range over... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1852 - 250 pages
...less force than the .rest of the sentence. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas even to thee,) yet, the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts...high, And bids " the pure in heart " behold their God. " Poor Maria," said the postilion, (leaning his body on • one side to let me see her, for he was... | |
 | Benjamin Moran - 1853 - 408 pages
...As firm in friendship and as fond in love, Tell them, tho' 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas even to thee,) yet, the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts...high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God." There is a neat marble tablet, in the east wall of the south transept, to the memory of " Dame Harriet... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - 1853 - 738 pages
...them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas e'en to theo) — yet the dread path once trod, Heav'u lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God." — MASON. Again. The following short epitaph is a paraphrase of lord Herbert's complimentary address... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 632 pages
...ending ; I have altered them thus : — ' Tell them though 'tis an awful thing to die, — 'Twas e'en to thee — yet the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts...high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God.' The longer these lines are meditated, the more their beauty is felt. They have every merit which is... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 pages
...an ending ; I have altered them thus : " Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die — 'Twas e'en e The longer these lines are meditated, the more their beauty is felt. They have every merit which is... | |
 | Henry Wyles Cushman - 1855 - 810 pages
...•ceased to beat, — then the void is felt. " Sure 'tis an awfal thing to die : Twas so to her ; yet ihe dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting...high. And bids the pure in heart behold their God." He m. 2d Abigail (Barnard) Coleman, widow of the late Capt Thaddeus Coleman of Greenfield, 21 July... | |
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