| Ears - 1851 - 176 pages
...Death is the veil which those who live call life ; They sleep, and it is lifted. — SHELLRY. There is no Death ! what seems so is transition ; This life...of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.— LONGFELLOW. It matters little at what honr o' the day The righteous fall asleep ; death cannot coma... | |
| Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1851 - 592 pages
...expressive language, he became " entirely well." He died December 8, 1691. 4. DR. DODDRIDGE. "There is no death: what seems so is transition; This life...a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death."—LONGFELLOW. PHILIP DODDRIDGE was born in London in the year 1702. His parents were both pious,... | |
| Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1851 - 600 pages
...became " entirely well." He died December 8, 1691. 4. DR. DODDRIDGE. "There is no death: what seems BO is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a...of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death." — LONGFELLOW. PHILIP DODDRIDGE was born in London in the year 1702. His parents were both pious,... | |
| 1851 - 448 pages
...these earthly damps What seam to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. v. There is no death ! what seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb to the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. VL She is not dead — the child of our affection... | |
| Heavenly thoughts - 1851 - 318 pages
...these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! what seems so is Transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but the suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. He is not dead, the child of our affection,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life...led, Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, Day after day we think what she is doing In those bright realms of air ! Year after year, her tender... | |
| Durham city, sch - 1852 - 486 pages
...What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, .May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death! AVhat seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. lu that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe... | |
| 1852 - 340 pages
...mansions ; if it "were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.— JOHN xiv. 2. SHE is not dead, the child of our affection, But gone...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. And though at times, impetuous with emotion, And anguish long suppressed, The swelling heart heaves... | |
| Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1852 - 584 pages
...expressive language, he became " entirely well." He died December 8, 1691. 4. DR. DODDRIDGE. "There is no death : what seems so is transition ; This life...of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death." — LONGFELLOW. PHILIP DODDRIDGE was born in London in the year 1702. His parents were both pious,... | |
| 1852 - 572 pages
...seen gazing out on the graves of the household, and she ever feels as she thinks of the dead, " There is no death ! what seems so is transition — This life of mortal breath Is but the prelude to that life elysian, Whose portals we call death." E. LOUISA MATHER. Millington, Conn.... | |
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