 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - Sermons, English - 1907 - 410 pages
...I have been speaking this morning, those words of Charles Wesley's are most of all appropriate — Ah, lovely appearance of death ; What sight upon earth is so fair ? For us who remain there is a message. The service will be over in a moment ; there will be a collection.... | |
 | Abraham Godshalk - 1912 - 314 pages
...Serve Thee, the living God. S. GODSHAIK. THE SWEETNESS OP DEATH. 1 Oh, lovely appearance of death, No sight upon earth is so fair; Not all the gay pageants that breathe Can with a dead body compare. 2 How blest is our brother, bereft Of all that could burden his mind; How easy the soul that hath left... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1819 - 494 pages
...thousand to experience religion, and obtain mercy at such a time as this." He then wished us to sing, " Ah ! lovely appearance of death, What sight upon earth is so fair ? Not all the gay paeeants that breathe Can with a dead body compare." and again, " And must this body die ? This well-... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1823 - 498 pages
...countenance, I could not but reflect with the poet,— " Ah ! lovely appearance of dealb, What -i.;lit upon earth is so fair? Not all the gay pageants that breathe Can with this dead body compare." " Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like Aw."... | |
 | William Dean Howells - Literary Collections - 1920 - 456 pages
...recently, and with what a strange pity for her own shapeless form that was to be, she quaintly sung Oh, lovely appearance of death! What sight upon earth...pageants that breathe Can with a dead body compare! She remembered instead, "In Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures f... | |
 | American essays - 1860 - 804 pages
...with what a strange pity for her own shapeless form that was to be, she had quaintly sung, — " Oh, lovely appearance of death ! What sight upon earth...pageants that breathe Can with a dead body compare!" She remembered instead, — "In thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right hand there are pleasures... | |
 | David Lowenthal - History - 1985 - 522 pages
...Delight in the look of mortality revived in the nineteenth century, as in the maudlin Methodist hymn: Ah lovely appearance of death What sight upon earth...the gay pageants that breathe Can with a dead body compare.299 The evident frailty of ruins made manifest their kinship with mortal beings. Contemplating... | |
 | Mechal Sobel - History - 1987 - 380 pages
...George Whitefield's burial, well suggests the tone of these works: Ah, lovely appearance of death, No sight upon earth is so fair; Not all the gay pageants that breathe, Can with a dead body compare. 222 With solemn delight I survey The corpse when the spirit is fled; In love with the beautiful day,... | |
 | Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford - Fiction - 1989 - 276 pages
...and with what a strange pity for her own shapeless form that was to be, she had quaintly sung,— "O lovely appearance of death! What sight upon earth...pageants that breathe Can with a dead body compare!" She remembered instead,—"In thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures... | |
 | Elaine Showalter - Fiction - 1997 - 566 pages
...recently, and with what a strange pity for her own shapeless form that was to be, she had quaintly sung, 'O lovely appearance of death! What sight upon earth...pageants that breathe, Can with a dead body compare!' She remembered instead, - 'In thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures... | |
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