 | 1901 - 744 sider
...exist, so that, having fought the good fight, we can face the end with unwavering fortitude, each " As one who wraps the drapery of his couch around him And lies down to pleasant dreams." GL CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE. SCIENCE. AN excellent text-book of elementary botany has just been pub'lished,1... | |
 | 1834 - 320 sider
...Bryant, it is asking too much to require any person to think of approaching such a receptacle, " Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch Around him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." Such a thing is not to be thought of, Then imagine yourself left sticking in the mud, the gloomy night... | |
 | William Cutter Hanscom - 1838 - 218 sider
...to his dungeon ; but, sustain'd and sooth'd, By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch Around him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." Once more. At such a season as this, when we are called to reflect upon the shortness of life, and... | |
 | 1874 - 590 sider
...dungeon, but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, — approach our grave, Like one that draws the drapery of his couch Around him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." ie WILLIAM CAUNT. I HAVE been asked to give a few particulars of my dear brother Caunt — for many... | |
 | David Thomas - 674 sider
...Scourged to his dungeon; but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch Around him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." Mitcal [Contributed for the Homilist by the REV. WM. WEBSTER, MA, late Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge,... | |
 | 1850 - 790 sider
...escaped his lips. " Sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust," he approached his grave, " like one who wraps the drapery of his couch around him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." On the evening previous to his demise, he requested his physician to remain, and witness his departure,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 sider
...chamber in the silent halls of death, That thou, sustained and soothed, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch Around him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. WC Bryant. DEFENCE. BE thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me __ Psalm xxxi. 2. Deliver... | |
 | Edwin H. Lake - 1855 - 328 sider
...happy home, kind parents, amiable sisters, and yet he was enabled to resign all, and die " Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch Around him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." Bereaved parents, and sisters, the calmness and resignation with which he met death must afford you... | |
 | 1855 - 778 sider
...latitudes. The nights in summer, here, as in most parts of the State, are cool and refreshing ; one ' ' wraps the drapery of his couch around him and lies down to pleasant dreams;" when the pleasant morning arouses him from his slumbers, he rises strengthened and invigorated, realizing... | |
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Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch Around him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. 
