 | Thomas Moore - 1844 - 509 sider
...sunny resting-place. Nor brought him back one branch of grace. " There was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child! " When,...haply pure as thou, " I look'd and pray'd like thee — hut now — " He hung his head — each nobler aim, And hope, and feeling, which had slept From... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace ! " There was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child ! " When, young and haply pure as thou, " I looked and prayed like thee — but now—" He hung his head— each nobler aim, And hope, and feeling,... | |
 | 1845 - 600 sider
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace ? "Theie too* a time," he said, in mi'.d, Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child ! " When,...hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — be wept ! BJest tears of soul-felt penitence ! In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1845 - 278 sider
...sunny resting-jJace, Nor brought him back one branch of grace ? " There was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones, " thou blessed child ! "When, young, and haply pure as thou, "I looked and prayed like thee — but now — " •He hung his head — each nobler aim, And hope, and... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 484 sider
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace? " There teas a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones, " thou blessed child, When young and, haply, pure as thou, I looked and prayed like thee ; but now : He hung his head; each nobler aim, And hope, and feeling, which... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846
...'There was a time,' he said, in mild, Heart-hnmbled tones — ' thou blessed child ! When young aud haply pure as thou, I look'd and pray'd like thee...instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept!" — p. 156, 157. This tear of repentance is the acceptable gift for the Peri's redemption. The gates... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846
...time,' he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones — ' thou blessed child ! When young and haply pure us thou, I look'd and pray'd like thee ! — but now...instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept ! " — p. 156, 157. This tear of repentance is the acceptable gift for the Peri's redemption. The... | |
 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1846
...to duties. You and I are guarantees by bond. Every one that the whalo is the largest of all animals. He hung his head, each nobler aim And hope and feeling which had , From boyhood's hour, that instant Fresh o'er him, — and he wept, he wept ! RULE 5. When a singular... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1848
...time, thou blessed child ! When уоипг, and haply pure as thon, I look'd and pray'd like tnec — but now* — He hung his head — each nobler aim,...instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept ! ' They set our former self in the character of a child before us, and voices from the cradle come... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 294 sider
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace ! "There was a time," he said in mild, Heart-humbled tones—" thou blessed child; " When...hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept I he wept Blest tears of soul-felt penitence ! In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first, the... | |
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And how felt he, the wretched Man reclining there — while memory ran o'er many a year of guilt and strife, flew o'er the dark flood of his life, nor found one sunny resting-place, nor brought him back one branch of grace ! 
