Hark ! how the sacred calm, that breathes around, Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease ; In still small accents whispering from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. The Sewanee Review - Page 4261909Full view - About this book
| 1839 - 66 pages
...tale relate, By night and lonely contemplation led, To wander in the gloomy walks of fate ; Hark ! how the sacred calm that breathes around Bids every...from the ground A grateful earnest of eternal peace. See Mason's Life of Gray. Tuque memor ! sortem ingenuo qui carmine narras Functorum vita, temeré et... | |
| 1839 - 460 pages
...when as yet all lips were closed, and they were only admonished by its eloquent silence : " Hark ! how the sacred calm that breathes around Bids every...from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace !" The Cambridge Collection of Hymns for Church of England Families and Sunday Schools. By JE Dalton,... | |
| 1840 - 652 pages
...starlight morning. King's Collection. GLEE,/or 3 Voices. — ATTWOOD. (Alto, Tenor, and Bass.) HARK ! how the sacred calm that breathes around Bids every...from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The red-breast... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...the moon complain Of such as, wandering to her secret bower; Molest her ancient solitary reign. Hark! how the sacred calm that breathes around, Bids every...from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,... | |
| 1841 - 908 pages
...life, and sets before us the image of eternal rest." 11 Hark ! how the sacred culm, that !>reathes around, Bids every fierce, tumultuous passion cease...the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace." Here it is that we learn the import and beauty of that " wonderful specimen of elegiac eloquence :"... | |
| 1842 - 788 pages
...expressed by Gray in a stanza which ought never to have been expunged from his Elegy : — " Hark ! how the sacred calm that breathes around Bids every...from the ground A grateful earnest of eternal peace." Tombs of different periods, and of styles characteristic of those periods VOL. i.xx. NO. CXL. 2 E (provided... | |
| John Fisher Murray - 1842 - 322 pages
...innocence their virtue owe Than power or genius e'er conspired to blcss. • •*•** Hark, how the saered calm that breathes around Bids every fierce tumultuous...from the ground A grateful earnest of eternal peace. ****** There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By bonds unseen are showers of violets found,... | |
| 1844 - 616 pages
...of life. The religion of the children is warmed by the pious histories of their kindred, thus, — "In still small accents whispering from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace." We have hitherto been speaking of the ñrst and second lectures, the third enters upon a wide and interesting... | |
| 1844 - 778 pages
...life. The religion of the children is warmed by the pious histories of their kindred ; thus, — " In still small accents whispering from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace." We have hitherto been speaking of the first and second lectures, the third enters upon a wide and interesting... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. [Hark ! how the sacred calm that breathes around Bids every...the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace.] Yet even2 these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still3 erected nigh, With uncouth... | |
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