 | Elizabeth Constantia Agnew - 1819 - 266 pages
...Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so heaven has will'd, we die; Not e'en the tenderest heart and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh. KEEBLE. AND here, for a time, Geraldine paused, not from thought, for that was impossible, but from... | |
 | John Keble - 1827 - 398 pages
...xiv. 10. should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die % Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh ? Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe Our hermit spirits dwell, and range apart, Our eyes see all... | |
 | John Keble - 1827 - 216 pages
...WHY should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die •, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh ? Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe Our hermit spirits dwell, and range apart, Our eyes see all... | |
 | John Keble - 1837 - 442 pages
...10. WHY should we faint, and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die1, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh ? Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe Our hermit spirits dwell, and range apart, Our eyes see all... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 380 pages
...: " Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own. Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh ? " * Such considerations have always induced me to regard with small respect, any attempt to delineate... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 384 pages
...: " Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own. Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh ? " * Such considerations have always induced me to regard with small respect, any attempt to delineate... | |
 | 1884 - 656 pages
...shrines of the spirit where only God looks in. Only too true at times appear the words : — " Nor e'en the tenderest heart and next our own Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh." Our subject suggests two lessons : — (1.) Since we can know others only in part, the thought of our... | |
 | John Keble - 1842 - 332 pages
...Amen.] Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so. Heaven has will'd, we die,* Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh? Each in his hidden sphere of joy or wo Our hermit spirits dwell, and range apart, Our eyes see all... | |
 | 1843 - 202 pages
...10. Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die. Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh ? And well it is for us our God should feel Alone our secret throbbings, so our prayer May readier... | |
 | Constancy - 1844 - 936 pages
...connexion between the soul and its Creator, than between the soul and any of its fellow creatures ! Not even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh. Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe Our hermit spirits dwell, and range apart ; Our eyes see all... | |
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The heart knoweth his own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. — Proverbs xiv. 10. WHY should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die,* Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows... 
