 | 1850 - 300 pagina’s
...though 't is an awful thing to die, ('T was even to thee) — yet the dread path once trod, HEAVEN lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids the pure in heart behold their GOD. 19 THE PARISH PRIEST. A PARISH Priest was of the pilgrim train, An awful, reverend, and religious... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pagina’s
...them, though 'tis an awful thing to die', ('Twas even to wee' /) yet, the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids '' the pure in heart behold their God.'' (6.) For these reasons the senate and the people of Athens' (with due veneration to the gods... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 288 pagina’s
...them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas ev'n to thee,) yet, the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids the "pure in heart behold their God." DEFINITIONS, &c. — Defiue best, gift, fount, bore, bowed, sympathetic, duty's sphere, (sphere... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pagina’s
...them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twos even to thee) yet the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids 'the pure in heart behold their God.' Inture ilje €ljirtij-figljtlj. MASE AEENSIDE—THOMAS BLACELOCE—FRANCIS FAWXES—JAMES GRANIGER—... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1852 - 250 pagina’s
...them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas even to thee,) yet, the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids " the pure in heart " behold their God. " Poor Maria," said the postilion, (leaning his body on • one side to let me see her, for he... | |
 | Benjamin Moran - 1853 - 446 pagina’s
...them, tho' 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas even to thee,) yet, the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God." There is a neat marble tablet, in the east wall of the south transept, to the memory of " Dame... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - 1853 - 738 pagina’s
...them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas e'en to theo) — yet the dread path once trod, Heav'u lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God." — MASON. Again. The following short epitaph is a paraphrase of lord Herbert's complimentary... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 pagina’s
...though 'tis an awful thing to die — 'Twas e'en to thee — yet, the dread path once trod,, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God." The longer these lines are meditated, the more their beauty is felt. They have every merit which... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 632 pagina’s
...though 'tis an awful thing to die, — 'Twas e'en to thee — yet the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God.' The longer these lines are meditated, the more their beauty is felt. They have every merit which... | |
 | 1855 - 488 pagina’s
...hour." Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas e'en to thee,) yet the dread path once trod, Heav'n lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God! What poor miserable creatures we are whilst in a state of nature, and under the power of sin,... | |
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... have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee ; Bid them in Duty's sphere as meekly move ; And if so fair, from vanity as free ; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas e'en... 
