 | 1830 - 862 pages
...wretch is born to work and weep, Explore the mine or tempt the dang'rous deep ; Bnt on he moves towards his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's...slopes the way ; And all his prospects brightening to tbe last, His heaven commences ere this world be past." Mr. JAMES RICHARDSON then moved, that the Committee... | |
 | Zachary Macaulay - Antislavery movements - 1831 - 592 pages
...is born to work and weep, Explore the mine or tempt the dang'rous deep ; i'.ut on he moves towards his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's...While resignation gently slopes the way ; And all bis prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere this world be past." Mr. JAMES RICHARDSON... | |
 | Presbyterians - 1831 - 456 pages
...blessedness on which he is about to enter, his spirit is gladdened by anticipations of approaching glory, " And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past." Come then, my friend, and let us visit the chamber ol the dying Christian. Come and see how a Christian... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects bright'ning to... | |
 | Zachary Macaulay - Antislavery movements - 1831 - 592 pages
...is born to work and weep, Explore the mine or tempt the dang'rous deep ; But on he moves towards Ms latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend...brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere this world be past." Mr. JAMES RICHARDSON then moved, thai the Committee of the I .(vils Anti-Slavery... | |
 | John Comly, Isaac Comly - Quakers - 1833 - 392 pages
...awful messenger, is truly depicted by the poet, in describing the closing scene of the pious Christian: "While resignation gently slopes the way, And all...last, His heaven commences, ere the world be past." NOTICES OF BENJAMIN LAY. By John Hunt, of New Jersey. 12th of 3d mo. 1785, in conversation with our... | |
 | John Comly, Isaac Comly - Quakers - 1833 - 434 pages
...awful messenger, is truly depicted by the poet, in describing the closing scene of the pious Christian: "While resignation gently slopes the way, And all...last, His heaven commences, ere the world be past." NOTICES OF BENJAMIN LAY. By John Hunt, of New Jersey. 12th of 3d mo. 1785, in conversation with our... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...deep; Nor surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate: But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending...last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonderthill the village murmur rose; There, as... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 558 pages
...dedication of the poem to him, dedicated the print from it to Goldsmith, with this inscription — " Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation...heaven commences ere the world be past." • " This attempt to express a character in the Deserted Village, is dedicated to Dr. Goldsmith by his sincere... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, Irish - 1837 - 606 pages
...dedicated the print from it to Goldsmith, with this inscription — " Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way ; And...His heaven commences ere the world be past." " This attempt to express a character in the Deserted Village, is dedicated to [Dr. Goldsmith by his sincere... | |
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Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. 
