 | 1861 - 858 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.' "—(P. 305.) "The Old Bachelor; after the manner of Spenser," is delightful. Near the close... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - 418 pagina’s
...them, though 'tis an awful tiling 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." William THK PEACE COMING ON THE KAI5TII. THE groans of nature in this nether world, Which Heaven... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1863 - 254 pagina’s
...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." LORD PALMERSTON'S ELEGY. " WHOE'ER like me, his heart's whole treasure brings, With trembling... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1863 - 420 pagina’s
...them, 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." William Mason. ins THE PEACE COMING ON THE EARTH. THE groans of nature in this nether world,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1866 - 152 pagina’s
...them, 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. EXTEMPORE EPITAPH ON ANNE, COUNTESS OF DORSET. Now clean, now hideous, mellow now, now gruff,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pagina’s
...Tell them, tho' 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. w. MASON 437 TO LE VEN- WA TER PURE stream, in whose transparent wave my youthful limbs I wont... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 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. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Born, 1728; Died, 1774. There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 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. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Born, 1728; Died, 1774. THE VILLAGE PREACHER. NEAR yonder copse where once the... | |
 | Epitaphs - 1869 - 216 pagina’s
...•jh T is a sad and awful thing to die ! 3? 'Twas so with her; but the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God. J£ HE died as she had lived, a bright example of W every virtue and accomplishment that make... | |
 | Henry Kollock - 1871 - 610 pagina’s
...incapable of these joys, or bound up in stupifying sloth. Such is the condition of the saints when " Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God." 1. How excellent and dignified is the soul of man, which is capable of such felicity ! Though... | |
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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... 
