| 1843 - 350 pages
...period, hidden, (as from most,) Hide too from thee the precious use of life. Young. DEATHBED OP THE JC8T. THE chamber, where the good man meets his fate, Is privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. Fly, ye profane ! If not, draw near with awe.... | |
| Benjamin Luckock - 1843 - 294 pages
...authorities to quote; it is, however, not the language of • fiction, but of facts, which says— " The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven." There are principles, indeed, which show their... | |
| Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1844 - 376 pages
...spirit heavily." This passage brings involuntarily to remembrance the beautiful lines of Young — " The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life; — quite in the verge of Heaven." The following letter, addressed to the same... | |
| Justin Perkins - 1843 - 598 pages
...couch of the missionary, though to the survivors, peculiarly sorrowful, is also, in a special degree, " privileged beyond the common walks of life — quite on the verge of heaven." Mrs. G's death, like the trump of an angel, sent an unwonted thrill through every bosom among the natives... | |
| Charles Elliott - 1844 - 430 pages
...son Thomas died, and, also, Susan Oldham, a few months before him. But we will not complain; for, ' The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileged beyond the common walks Of virtuous life, quite on the verge of heaven.' "You will learn from this intelligence, that my plan... | |
| Margaret Prior, Sarah R. I. Bennett - 1844 - 342 pages
...against the truth, and yet it may gain a lodgment where arguments would fail. Death-bed scene. — " The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileged beyond the common walks Of virtuous life, quite on the verge of heaven." Another friend had requested me to visit a sick relative... | |
| 1844 - 524 pages
...speak are the words of honesty and soberness. Let us approach the spot. It has nothing repulsive. ' The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileged beyond the common walks Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of Heaven. ' God smiles on him, and he smiles on death. He is in... | |
| Martha Smith - 1844 - 276 pages
...her, who can testify, that in her case the words of the poet were fully realized, when he Bays : " The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileged, beyond the common walks Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of Heaven." To be with her was like being in the borders of the spirit-land,... | |
| Jonathan Hutchinson - 1844 - 418 pages
...sweetly on this occasion, I remembered Addison, " See in what peace a Christian can die ! " and Young, " The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileged beyond the common walk of virtuous life, Quite on the verge of heaven." I believe feelings correspondent with these animating... | |
| 1849 - 318 pages
...happy influence of religion in the sick-room, verifying the truth of the words of Dr. Young, that — "The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileged beyond the common walks of virtuous life, Quite in the verge of heaven." But he never saw a more striking exemplification of this,... | |
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