 Life. IN youth we seem to be climbing a hill on whose top eternal sunshine appears to rest. How eagerly we pant to attain its summit ; but when we have gained it, how different is the prospect on the other side. We sigh as we contemplate the dreary waste...  Evenings by Eden-side, Or, Essays and Poems - Pàgina 49per George Pearson - 1832 - 137 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1828 - 614 pàgines
...to attain its summit ; but when we have gained it, how different is the prospect on the other side. We sigh as we contemplate the dreary waste before...and rain; but religion, like those streaming rays of sunshine, will clothe it with light as with a garment, and fringe its shadowy skirts with gold. The... | |
 | 1828 - 608 pàgines
...to attain its summit ; but when we have gained it, how different is the prospect on the other side. We sigh as we contemplate the dreary waste before...but may never more retrace. Oh, Mary ! life is like you portentous cloud, fraught with thunder, storm, and rain ; but religion, like those streaming rays... | |
 | 1828 - 514 pàgines
...to attain its summit ; but when we have gained it, how different is the prospect on the other side ! We sigh as we contemplate the dreary waste before...flowery path we have passed, but may never more retrace. Life is like yon portentous cloud, fraught with thunder, storm , and rain ; but religion, like those... | |
 | 1832 - 858 pàgines
...to attain its summit, but when we have gained it, how different is the prospect on the other side. We sigh as we contemplate the dreary waste before us, and look back with a wishful eye upon the flowery path we have passed but may never more retrace. It is like a portentous... | |
 | 1852 - 1162 pàgines
...to attain its summit ! But when we have gained it, how different is the prospect on the other side! We sigh as we contemplate the dreary waste before...flowery path we have passed, but may never more retrace. Life is like a portentous cloud, fraught with thunder, storm, and rain ; but religion, like those streaming... | |
 | 1856 - 622 pàgines
...to attain tho summit 1 But when we have attained it how different the prospect on the other side ! We sigh as we contemplate the dreary waste before...upon the flowery path we have passed, but may never moro retrace. Life is a portentious cloud, fraught with thunder, storm and rain ; but religion, like... | |
 | 1875 - 558 pàgines
...to attain its summit ! But when we have gained it, how different is the prospect on the other side ! We sigh as we contemplate the dreary waste before...flowery path we have passed, but may never more retrace. Life is like a portentous cloud, fraught with thunder, storm, and rain ; but religion, like those streaming... | |
 | 1894 - 1020 pàgines
...when we have gained it, how different is the prospect on the other side! We sigh as we contemplate the waste before us, and look back with a wistful eye...flowery path we have passed, but may never more retrace. Life is like a portentous cloud fraught with thunder, storm, and rain; but religion, like those streaming... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1828 - 612 pàgines
...to attain its summit ; but when we have gained it, how different is the prospect on the other side. We sigh as we contemplate the dreary waste before...and rain; but religion, like those streaming rays of sunshine, will clothe it with light as with a garment, and fringe its shadowy skirts with gold. The... | |
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