 | Thomas Whittemore - 1860 - 420 sider
...the infallible cure of all others. To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows never beat, nor tempests roar; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke 'tis o'er. — Garth. Abstracted from the sickness and sufferings usually attending it, death is no more than... | |
 | Johann Heinrich D. Zschokke - 1863 - 384 sider
...subject to bondage. (Heb. iL, 15.) To die is landing on some peaceful shore, Where billows never beat, nor tempests roar ; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. There is no death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 sider
...stain, for we inherit nothing truly but what our actions make us worthy of. G. CHAPMAN 481 THE END O die is landing on some silent shore, where billows...friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. The wise through thought the insults of death defy, the fools through blessed insensibility. 'Tis what the guilty fear, the... | |
 | william reed - 1864 - 836 sider
...stood still, and he found that " To die is landing on some peaceful there, Where billows never beat nor tempests roar ; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke 'tis o'er." Thus finished the earthly career of our departed brother, aged seventynine, he having served God during... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 sider
...one day, And that 's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday. ibid. SAMUEL GARTH. 1670-1719. To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...tempests roar ; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 't is o'er. The Dispensary? Canto iii. Line 225. 1 Of all the girls that e'er was seen, There 's none... | |
 | Matthew Richley - 1872 - 226 sider
...bravely to defend. 'Tis to the vulgar, death too harsh appears ; The ill we feel is only in our fears. To die, is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. The wise, through thought, the insults of death defy ; The fools through blessed insensibility. 'Tis what the guilty fear, the... | |
 | 1872 - 830 sider
...Garth says — "'Tis to the vulgar Death too harsh appears ; The ill we feel is only in our fears. To die, is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er." "One Who Fears Death" can therefore take consolation. "Death is not dreadful to a mind resolved, It... | |
 | 1884 - 794 sider
...breathe their momentary sweets, then go; 'Tis the stainless soul within That outshines the fairest skin. To die is landing on some silent shore, ' Where billows...roar; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. Garth. Man dies; but the immortal thoughts of man, The common feelings of humanity, Live on, the same... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 sider
...one day, And that 's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday. ibid. SAMUEL GARTH. 1670-1719. To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...tempests roar ; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 't is o'er. The Dispensary? Canto iii. Line 22$. 1 Of all the girls that e'er was seen, There 's none... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 sider
...Death's what the guilty fear, the pious crave, Sought by the wretch, and vanquish'd by the brave. GARTH. To die is landing on some silent shore, W'here billows...roar; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. GARTH. The good man warn'd us from his text That none could tell whose turn should be the next. GAY.... | |
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To die, is landing on some silent shore, Where billows never break nor tempests roar : Ere well we feel the friendly stroke 'tis o'er. 
