 | 1814 - 640 pages
...our grief, and reconcile us to her loss. Let us emulate her example, that we may rejoin her, when " Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God." The following obituary notice is supposed to have been written by John Randolph, esquire, of... | |
 | Select collection - 1806 - 262 pages
...^Tell them, tho' 'tis an awful thing to die, ("twas ev'n to thee) yet the dread path once trod, Heav'n lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids " the pure in heart behold their God." Dr. Messenger lUonsei/ was born 1 693, at a Village in Norfolk edvcatid iit Cambridge ; .studied... | |
 | 1809 - 592 pages
...to the human mind; yet she beheld its approach without terror, supported by the conviction, that -" the dread path once trod. Heaven lifts its everlasting...portals high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God." Such was the conduct through life of this amiable woman, who livetl beloved, and died lamented... | |
 | 1810 - 1018 pages
...so fair, from vanity as free, As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, tho' « 'tis in awful thing to die, ('Twas even to thee) — yet the dread path once trod, Heav'n lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids i he ' pure in heart behuld the» Cod.' 119. In... | |
 | 1811 - 386 pages
...firm in friendship, and as kind in love. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas ev'n to thee) yet the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts...portals high, And bids "the pure in heart behold their God." EPITAPH BY LORD PALMERSTONE, ON THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE. WHOE'ER like me, with trembling anguish... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 520 pages
...them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas ev'n to thee) yet the dread path once trod, Heav'n lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids " the pure in heart behold their GOD." EPITAPH II. ON MISS DRUMMOND, IN THE CBUBCB OF BRODSWORTH, TORKSHIRK. JTlERB sleeps what once... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 524 pages
...them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas ev'n to thee) yet the dread path once trod, Heav'n lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids " the pure in heart behold their GOD." EPITAPH II. ON MISS DRUMMOND, IIC THE CHURCH OF BRODSWORTH, YORKSHIRE. H.KRE sleeps what once... | |
 | 1811 - 750 pages
...'Tell them, tho' 'tis an awful thing to die ('Twasev'ato thee); yet, the dread path once trod, Heav'n lifts its everlasting portals -high. And bids ' the pure in heart behold their God." Tnc ESOI.UR GASHES*.. After an Invocation to " Simplicity,1' and the " Sister Powers" of Poetry... | |
 | John Nichols - 1813 - 762 pages
...'tis an awful thing to die,, ... i% (Twas ev'n to thee) j yet, the dread path once trod, ,( j Heav'n lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids " the pure in heart behold their GonT' " The Author of a late "Account of all the Watering Places," mentioning Southampton and Ramsey,... | |
 | John Feltham - 1813 - 368 pages
...them, tho' 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas even to thee !) yet the dread path once trod, Heav'n lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God. Close to the east side of this cathedral was born, in U58,that lovely but unfortunate daughter... | |
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E'en from the grave thou shalt 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... 
