| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 pages
...ere we break it up, O'er putrid earth to scratch a little dust, • And save the world aTiuisance. Smitten friends Are angels sent on errands full of...they die, in vain ? Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades, Which wait the revolution in our hearts ? Shall we disdain their silent, soft' address... | |
| Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1839 - 154 pages
...Lovely(in death the beauteous ruin lay ; And if in death still lovely, lovelier there ! ' * * * * * ' Smitten friends Are angels sent on errands full of...die. And shall they languish, shall they die in vain ? ' VOUKO. NEW ENGLAND springs are almost proverbially tardy. The cold east winds chase the leaden... | |
| Edward Young - 1839 - 300 pages
...decease, On drooping pinions of ambition lower'd, Just skim earth's surface ere we break it up, O'er putrid earth to scratch a little dust And save the...friends Are angels, sent on errands full of love; For us theyilanguish, and for us they die: And shall they languish, shall they die in vain ? Ungrateful, shall... | |
| Benjamin Richings - 1840 - 264 pages
...177. Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene : Resumes them, to prepare us for the next. For us they languish, and for us they die : And shall they languish, shall they die in vain \ 178. Men seek substantial good in vain, Intent on things below ; For what's the sum of all their... | |
| Benjamin Richings - 1840 - 262 pages
...177. Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene : Resumes them, to prepare us for the next. For us they languish, and for us they die : And shall they languish, shall they die in vain i 178. Men seek substantial good in vain, Intent on things below ; For what's the sum of all their... | |
| Henry Bacon - 1840 - 228 pages
...Universalist die in triumph — and where I have felt — " Our smitten friends Are angels sent on missions full of love ; For us they languish, and for us they die." The first time I ever saw the lip stilled no more to move, I was in a familiar home as a minister of... | |
| 1841 - 488 pages
...this last, pass by like a withered leaf upon the wings of the tempest, unheeded and unimproved ? " Smitten friends are angels sent On errands full of love, For us they languish, and for us they die." We, too, shall soon be called upon by that formidable voice, •c* which creates and destroys, to exchange... | |
| Samuel Davies, Albert Barnes - 1841 - 574 pages
...drooping pinions of ambition lowered, Just skin* earth's surface, ere wri break it up, O'er putrid pride to scratch a little dust, And save the world a nuisance. Smitten friends Are angels sent on errands full ol love . For us they languish, and for us they die: And shall they languish, shall they die in rain?... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1841 - 576 pages
...minister of the Gospel. 30* Survivor Saved. " Smitten friends, Are angeli, sent on eiraods full oflove ; For us they languish, and for us they die. And shall they languish, shall they die in rain." — YOUNG. IN a retired and beautiful village, lived Mr. Moreland and his daughter Mary. Mr.... | |
| Nathan Lanesford Foster - 1842 - 242 pages
...inscribed to the bereaved PARTNER, the surviving PARENT, and the BROTHERS and SISTERS of the DECEASED. " Smitten Friends Are angels sent on errands full of LOVE : For us they languish, and for us they die !" IN Death's unbounded realm, no order reigns ; No station, sex, or age, his hand restrains. Athletick... | |
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