 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...Bteal from the world, ami not a stone Tell where I lie. ODE. THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL. V ITAL spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, oh quit this mortal...this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my -.• • lii, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? The world... | |
 | John Dobell - 1810 - 540 pages
...pain, the bliss of dying I Ceas,e, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. 2 Hark ! they whisper, angels say, " Sister spirit,...? Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soui, can this be dt-ath ? 3 The world recedes, it disappears ! Heav'n opens on my eyes... .my ears... | |
 | John Dobell - 1810 - 538 pages
...heav'nly flame ! Quit, O quit this mortal frame : 1 "t TI V Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, O the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. 2 Hark ! they whisper, angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ;" What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals... | |
 | Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 pages
...Death. 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,...quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight? Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? TeU me, my soul, can this be death * The world recedes, it disappears :... | |
 | William Bengo Collyer - 1812 - 980 pages
...fiain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature! cease thy strife, And let me'languish into life ! 3 Hark ! they whisper — angels say, " Sister spirit,...quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath 7 — Tell me, my soul ! can this be death? 3 The world recedes ! — it disappears... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife, 5 And let me languish into life ! II. Hark ! they whisper ; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come...absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, 10 Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my Soul, can this be Death ? III. The world recedes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond Nature ! cease thy strife, 5 And let me languish into life. II. Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, Sister Spirit, come...absorbs me quite ! Steals my senses, shuts my sight, 19 Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my .Soul ! can this be Death ? HI. The world recedes... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1814 - 234 pages
...SOUL, 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...strife, And let me languish into life* Hark! they wisper; angels say, " Sister Spirit, come away."—. , . What is this absorbs me quite; 7 190 BfTRODUCTION,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 pages
...verses of Adrian, but the fine fragment of Sappho, &c. THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL. ODE. i. • Vital spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, oh quit this...mortal frame ; Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, • J Oh the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into... | |
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Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me 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! 
