 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pàgines
...state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with...brightening 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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pàgines
...To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; •But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with...brightening to 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... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 640 pàgines
...and satisfy a quiet, faithful, sweet old age. " For on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with...brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past." We have mentioned that in autumn the ivy blossoms. The bright yellowish-green flowers, emblems... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pàgines
...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...brightening to 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 :... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1874 - 608 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 882 pàgines
...Thus, to proceed in the language of the Poet, he prepares himself to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend, Sinks to the grave with...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... | |
 | William Beloe - 1817 - 400 pàgines
...421. Of the venerable personage here depicted, it may be truly said, that he l Sinks to the grave by unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way, And all his prospects brightning to the last, His heaven commences ere this world be past. CHAP. CHAP. LXVI. P. 427. " As... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pàgines
...the gate: But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend— Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation...brightening to 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,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Bernard - 1818 - 292 pàgines
...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,... | |
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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 past. 
