 | 1877 - 588 pàgines
...August, 1877, in the 81st year of his age. " How bleat the righteous when he dies ! When sinks a weary soul to rest, How mildly beam the closing eyes ; How gently heaves the expiring breast. " So fades a summer oloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently... | |
 | 1811 - 462 pàgines
...! " Fond youth, your idle fautastics forbear," Cry'd Common Sense, — " address her as you art" H. THE DEATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS. SWEET is the scene when...righteous soul to rest ; How mildly beam the closing eye* ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast! So fades a summer cloud away So sinks the gale, when... | |
 | 1812 - 356 pàgines
...masters, and lectures, and courses of philosophy, and abridgements, and documenting in the universe. , The Death of the Righteous, Sweet is the scene when...How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves the expiring breast ! So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently... | |
 | 1854 - 834 pàgines
...spirit passed away on softest pinions. " How blest the righteous when he dies ! When sinks the weary soul to rest, How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves the expiring breast. " Life's labour done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies... | |
 | 1813 - 268 pàgines
...orators." POETRY. THE DEATH OF THE RIHGTEOUS. SWEET is the scene when virtue dies, When sinks a rightcous soul to rest; How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves the expiring breast ! So fades a summer-cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently... | |
 | Reformed Church in America, John Henry Livingston - 1814 - 696 pàgines
...166. LM The death of the righteous, 1 TTOW bless'd the righteous when he dies, XI When sinks a weary soul to rest, How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves th' expiring breast. 2 So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale, when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eve of... | |
 | 1817 - 728 pàgines
...spirits of the departed are now in a state of blessedness. " Sweet is the scene where Virtue dies, Where sinks a righteous soul to rest': How mildly beam the...closing eyes ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! t>o lades a Summer cloud away, So sinks the gale, when storm's are o'er bp gently shuts the closing... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pàgines
...mortality, as was the late Bishop Porteus of amiable memory — Sweet is the scene where VIRTUE dies, Where sinks a righteous soul to rest ; How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast! Se fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently... | |
 | Silvester Palmer - 360 pàgines
...friend to Cat/w* My-Twentitth Anniversary Sermon, preached at Worship Street, Novemb«3, 1811. POETRY. THE DEATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS. SWEET is the scene when virtue dies, When links the virtuous soul to rest; How mildly beams the closing eyes ! How gently heaves th' expiring... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1837 - 668 pàgines
...and in a few mo ments he breathed his last. How blest the righteous when he dies ! When sinks a weary soul to rest, How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! CAPTIVITY OF THE REV. GEORGE TAYLOR. An Account of the Captivity of the Rev. George Taylor, a Wesleyan... | |
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So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. 
