 AH, lovely appearance of death ! What sight upon earth is so fair* Not all the gay pageants that breathe Can with a dead body compare : With solemn delight I survey The corpse, when the spirit is fled. In love with the beautiful clay, And longing to lie...  The journal of the rev. John Wesley - Pagina 319door John Wesley - 1827Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Edmund Salusbury Ffoulkes - 1892 - 548 pagina’s
...' the sight of a corpse ' —and shall be given entire :—• Ah ! lovely appearance of death ! No sight upon earth is so fair: Not all the gay pageants that breathe, Can with this dead body compare. With solemn delight I survey The corpse when the spirit is fled. In love with... | |
 | Frederick John Snell - 1900 - 268 pagina’s
...to meet Him in the full triumph of faith." "This morning Abigail Pilsworth, aged fourteen, was born into the world of spirits. I talked with her the evening...were tears of joy. O death ! where is thy sting?" The original source of the comparison is without doubt the parable of our Lord, but the expression... | |
 | Frederick John Snell - 1900 - 268 pagina’s
...to meet Him in the full triumph of faith." "This morning Abigail Pilsworth, aged fourteen, was born into the world of spirits. I talked with her the evening...they were tears of joy. O death! where is thy sting?" The original source of the comparison is without doubt the parable of our Lord, but the expression... | |
 | Frederick John Snell - 1900 - 278 pagina’s
...to meet Him in the full triumph of faith." " This morning Abigail Pilsworth, aged fourteen, was born into the world of spirits. I talked with her the evening...not as one without hope), they were tears of joy. 0 death ! where is thy sting?" The original source of the comparison is without doubt the parable of... | |
 | William Booth - 1902 - 198 pagina’s
...toiling to make the blest shore, Where all is assurance and peace, And sorrow and sin are no more. " Ah, lovely appearance of death ! What sight upon earth...pageants that breathe, Can with a dead body compare. With solemn delight I survey The corpse when the spirit is fled, In love urith the beautiful clay,... | |
 | 1902 - 620 pagina’s
...When all's to be consumed by fire, As Peter has declared." 22 HMT "Ah, lovely appearance of death! No sight upon earth is so fair, Not all the gay pageants that breathe, Can with a dead body compare." "Why should we mourn departing friends, Or shake at death's alarms ! "Pis but the voice that Jesus... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1904 - 364 pagina’s
...but weak meat, as you might say. ' Ah, lovely appearance of death' — that's more in my line — " Ah, lovely appearance of death ! What sight upon earth...pageants that breathe Can with a dead body compare" — " Don't ! " Myra put both hands up to her ears. " Oh, please don't, Mr. Daddo ! And I call it wicked... | |
 | Wesley Historical Society - 1906 - 420 pagina’s
...Israel." Ah, lovely appearance of death ! P. 336, What sight upon earth is so fair ? June 28, 1785. Not all the gay pageants that breathe Can with a dead body compare ! — Hy. 48, 1, in the 1830 Hy. Bk.; dropped in 1875. CW, Funeral Hys. O, VI, p. 193, " On the Sight... | |
 | 1859 - 754 pagina’s
...was far better, that he composed the funeral hymn, found on page 50 of the Wesleyan Collection : — "Ah, lovely appearance of death! What sight upon earth...pageants that breathe Can with a dead body compare. With solemn delight I survey The corpse, when the spirit is fled, In lore with the beautiful clay,... | |
 | Thomas Colley - 1907 - 168 pagina’s
...In the school of affliction and discipline here below. Death ? What says the sweet funeral hymn ? " Ah lovely appearance of death ! What sight upon earth is so fair? The languishing head is at rest — Its thinking and aching are o'er; The quiet immovable breast Is... | |
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