 | Hannah More - 1830 - 472 sidor
...concerns of life; and at times to annihilate, as it were, the space which divides us from eternity: 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And...heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news. Yet as to those who seek a short annual retreat as a mere form; who dignify with the idea of a religious... | |
 | Hannah More - 1830 - 494 sidor
...concerns of life; and at times to annihilate, as it were, the space which divides us from eternity : Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And...heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news. Yet as to those who seek a short annual retreat as a mere form ; who dignify with the idea of a religious... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 sidor
...took fire ; A moment, and the world 's blown up to thee; Sun is darkness, and the stars are dust. P is greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask...Heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome newsj Tlieir answers form what men experience call ; If wisdom's friend, her best ; if not, worst foe.... | |
 | 1830 - 396 sidor
...REFLECTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR. IT has been said, by one of the most original and sublime of the English poets, "'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to Heaven." One of the purposes for which the faculty of memory was given us, is, to enable us to recal the events... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 128 sidor
...learn'd the fond pursuit to shun, Where few can reach their purpos'd aim, And thousands daily are undone. Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them what report they bore to Hcav'a. All nature is but art, unknown to thee ; All chance, direction which thou canst not see ; All... | |
 | Harriet Newell, Leonard Woods - 1830 - 244 sidor
...nothing. Let our imaginations often wing their way back to those hours which can never be recalled. " Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, " And ask them what report they've born to heaven, " And how they might have borne more welcome news." Will the recollection of... | |
 | 1831 - 596 sidor
...la full of Thee."— Thompton. RETROSPECTION.' " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our ptist hoars; " And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; " And how they might have born more welcome news. " Their answers form what men experience call." A New Tear, with all its diversified... | |
 | Harriet Newell - 1831 - 282 sidor
...nothing. Let our imaginations often wing their way back to those hours which can never be recalled. " "Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they've borne to heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news." Will the recollection of... | |
 | James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1831 - 658 sidor
...death familiar to our minds, although he be the king of terrors, and stimulate ourselves to converse with our past hours, and ask them what report they bore to heaven, and bow they might have borne more welcome news. But, alas, how epidemical is this distemper! — ' all... | |
 | Harriet Newell - 1831 - 292 sidor
...nothing. Let our imaginations often wing their way back to those hours which can never be recalled. " "Tig greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they've borne to heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news." Will the recollection of... | |
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Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news. 
