 | 1838 - 332 pàgines
...coughs, and rheums, and phthisics, and catarrn. COWPER. THE DEATH OF THE VIRTUOUS. SWEET is the sceno when virtue dies !— When sinks a righteous soul...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... | |
 | Samuel Adams Devens - 1838 - 228 pàgines
...hands of God in any part of his universe. How blest 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 cloud away, So sinks tb« gale when storms are o'er, So gently... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1839 - 304 pàgines
...which everywhere With so much earnestness you do pursue, Is only there." THE DEATH OF THE VIRTUOUS. SWEET is the scene when virtue dies! When sinks a...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... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1839 - 306 pàgines
...which everywhere With so much earnestness you do pursue, Is only there." THE DEATH OF THE VIRTUOUS. SWEET is the scene when virtue dies! When sinks a...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... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1840 - 276 pàgines
...life's latest hour ! And friendship, health, and pleasure, long be thine, THE DEATH OF THE VIRTUOUS. SWEET is the scene when Virtue dies ! When sinks a...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... | |
 | Andrew Preston Peabody - 1840 - 184 pàgines
...Righteous. LM Effingham. Mrs Barbauld. 1 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 ! 2 So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye... | |
 | 1840 - 498 pàgines
...5 OS. Righteous Blessed in Death. LM 1 How bless'd the righteous when he dies ! 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 eye... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1840 - 760 pàgines
...done. 1083 . LM The end of that man is peace. HOW blest the righteous when he dies ! When sinks a weary soul to rest ! How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves the' expiring breast ! 2 So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently... | |
 | 1861 - 716 pàgines
...three. Of the former the first stanza is : 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! The " other form" reads : Sweet is the scene when Christians die ; When holy souls retire to rest,... | |
 | 1870 - 406 pàgines
...illustration of the well-known verse — " How blest the righteous, when he dies! "When sinks a weary soul to rest ; How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves the expiring breast!" His death was improved from the words, c< Blessed are the die which die in the... | |
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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. 
