VITAL spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, oh, quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying : Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature ! cease thy strife, And let me languish into life ! Hark, they whisper ; angels say, A Manual of Elocution: Founded Upon the Philosophy of the Human Voice. With ... - Page 128by M. S. Mitchell - 1871 - 384 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...VITAL spark of heav'nly flame, Quit, O quit this mortal frame : Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, O the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature,...shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? Tell me, my Soul, can this be death ? The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heav'n opens on my eyes... | |
| Edward Barry - 1806 - 244 pages
...words : VITAL spark of heav'nly flame, Quit, oh quit this mortal frame : Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond...quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my Soul, can this be death.' Tb« The world recedes; it disappears... | |
| Ralph Williston - 1806 - 436 pages
...pain, the biiss of dying ! Cease, fond nature cease, thy strife, And let me languish into life. 2. Hark! they whisper angels say, Sister spirit, come...shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath, Tell me, my soul, can this be death ?• 9. RESURRECTION. Hymn 426. c. M. 1. T TOW long shall death,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...not a stone Tell where I lie. ODE. THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL. spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, O quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering,...quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath Tell me, my soul ! can this be death -' The world recedes ; it disappears... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...Tell where I lie. 20 ODE. THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL. VITAL spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, O quit this mortal frame! Trembling, hoping, lingering,...absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, 10 Drowns my spirits, draws rny breath? Tell me, my soul! can this he death? The world recedes: it... | |
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...stone Tell where I lie. ODE. THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOU1.. VITAL spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, O quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering,...quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul ! can this be death? The world recedes ; it disappears... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...quit, this mortal frame : Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, Oh the p;iin, the bliss of dying 1 Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish...quite. Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be deatn '. The world recedes ; it disappears... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...stone Tell where I lie. ODE. THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOPt. VITAL spark of heavenly flame! Quit, O quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering,...And let me languish into life. Hark ! they whisper ; angel* say, Sister ipirit, come away. What a this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight,... | |
| Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 410 pages
...have come warm from Pope's * 'brain, dropt originally from the pen of Flatman. Trembling, ': r' • v Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, Oh the pain,...quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be Death ? . The world recedes; it disappears!... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...OD K. VITAL spark of heavenly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame! Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, confest That Wisdom infinite must form the best, ELEGANT EXTRACTS, .Where all must fall StOids my 'senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breathi lei I me, my Soul, can this... | |
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