 Ev'n from the grave thou shall have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee ; Bid them in Duty's sphere as meekly move ; And if so fair, from vanity as free ; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, though 'tis an awful...  The Works of William Mason - Page 137by William Mason - 1811Full view - About this book
 | William Mason - 1774 - 316 pages
...move; And if fo fair, from vanity as free; As firm in friendfhip, and as fond in love. Tell them, tho' 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas ev'n to thee) yet the dread path once trod, Heav'n lifts its everlafting portals high, And bids " the Pure in heart behold their GOD." EPITAPH II. On tbe Honourable... | |
 | John Almon - English literature - 1784 - 586 pages
...And, if fo fair, from vanity as free, As firm in Friendfhip, and as fond in Love : Tell them, tho' 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas ev'n to thee) yet the dread path once trod, Heav'n lifts its everlafting portals high, And bids " the pure in heart behold their God." W. MASOK. EPITAPH ON MISS... | |
 | John Almon - English literature - 1786 - 440 pages
...them in duty's fphere as meekly move ; And, if ibfairr from vanity as free, Ae firm in friendfliip, and as fond in Love ; Tell them, though 'tis an awful...die, (' Twas ev'n to thee) yet the dread path once trodf Heav'n lifts its everlafting portals high, And bids " the pure in heart behold their God." W.... | |
 | Europe - 1830 - 976 pages
...so fair , from v .mît y as free , .* As firm in friendship , and as fond in love. Tell them , that' tis an awful thing to die. (T'was ev'n to thee]), yet the pnth once trod, 1 leave u lifts its everlasting portal high, And leads the pure in heart before their... | |
 | William Mason - 1796 - 332 pages
...; And if fo fair, from vanity as free ; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, tho' 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas ev'n to thee) yet the dread path once trod, Heav'n lifts its everlafting portals high, And bids "the Pure in heart behold their GOD." VoL. I. E EPITAPH EPITAPH... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 476 pages
...an awful thing to die, ('Twasev'ntothee)yet,the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlafting portals high, And bids " the pure in heart behold their God." Epitaph on Mifs Dnmmond, in tbi Church of Brodf-.vöitb, Yorkjbire. MASON. T_TERE dtps what once was beauty,... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1814 - 640 pages
...grief, and reconcile us to her loss. Let us emulate her example, that we may rejoin her, when " Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God." The following obituary notice is supposed to have been written by John Randolph, esquire, of Roanoke,... | |
 | William Mason - English poetry - 1803 - 252 pages
...; And if so fair, from vanity as free ; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, tho' 'tis an awful thing to die, (Twas ev'n to thee) yet...lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids "the Purein heart behold their God." • EPITAPH II. ON THE HONOURABLE MISS DRUMMOND, IN THE CHURCH OF BRODSWORTH,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1807 - 788 pages
...though 'tis an awful thing to die, Twas so to thee : yet the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts her everlasting portals high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God. JUNE, 1807. .' :;' rum. ttatm legi & quoin diligentiuime fotui amutam, qua commutanda, qtue tximenda,... | |
 | Select collection - Epitaphs - 1806 - 262 pages
...Atid, if so fair, from vanity as free ; As firm in friendship, and as fond in lave. ^Tell them, tho' 'tis an awful thing to die, ("twas ev'n to thee) yet...high, And bids " the pure in heart behold their God." Dr. Messenger lUonsei/ was born 1 693, at a Village in Norfolk edvcatid iit Cambridge ; .studied Physic... | |
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