 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
 | 1855 - 488 pages
...them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas 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! What poor miserable creatures we are whilst in a state of nature, and under the power of sin, and Satan... | |
 | Ferdinand De Wilton Ward - 1856 - 344 pages
...As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. 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.' " In addition to this justly famed Cathedral, Bristol contains twenty-three edifices connected with... | |
 | John Overton Choules - 1852 - 400 pages
...firm in friendship, and as fond in love, — 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." In the cloisters we saw the tomb of Bird the artist, a royal academician, and a native of Bristol.... | |
 | Arthur Cleveland Coxe - 1856 - 366 pages
...the transcendent tribute — 'Twas even to thce ! And now comes triumphant faith : — -" Yet that dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting...high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God." I am probably failing in my desire to carry my reader along with me in my own conception of the exceeding... | |
 | Silvester Tissington - 1857 - 560 pages
...firm in friendship, and as fond in love. 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.' " When the Rev. JOHN COTTON, one of the early ministers of New England, died, in 1652, one of his friends,... | |
 | 1864 - 492 pages
...faith, in the supreme anguish we shall feel that, " Though 'tis an awful thing to die, . . . . Yet, the path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals...high, And bids ' the pure in heart behold their God.' " We shall have said enough if these thoughts of ours, spoken in love, faith, and charity, be retained... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...firm in friendship, and as fond in love. 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.' Intttn ttje MARE AEENSIDE — THOMAS BLACKLOCK — FRANCIS FAWKES JAMES GRANIGER — NATHANIEL COTTON... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1858 - 450 pages
...them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas ev'n to thee,) yet, the dread path once trod, Heav'n lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids ' the pure in heart behold their God.' I conclude with the following degrading contrast from a monument in Horsleydown Church, in Cumberland.... | |
 | Margaret Anthony Cabell - 1858 - 364 pages
...is an awful thing to die, ('Twas even so to thee ;) but the dread path once trod? Heaven lifts her everlasting portals high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God !" A few years after this mournful event, the mansion of Judge Daniel was thrown open for a large assemblage,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 360 pages
...firm in friendship, and as fond in love; 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.' • AN HEROIC EPISTLE TO SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS, KNIGHT, COMPTROLLER-GENERAL OF HIS MAJESTY'S WORKS,... | |
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