The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget ; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood over in... The English Presbyterian messenger - Seite 218von Presbyterian Church of England - 1857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Robert Everett - 1849 - 830 Seiten
...illumine aud sanctify the heart of the survivor. The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which wo refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to...a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish aud brood over in solitude. Where is the mother who would willingly forget the infant that perished... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 538 Seiten
...sensual desire, and returns, like a holy flame, to illumine and sanctify the heart of the survivor. The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which...divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal — every oiher affliction to forget ; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction... | |
| 1878 - 668 Seiten
...NOT. 21 last was "A Little Sermon," attributed to Washington Irving, and commencing, " The sorro«1 for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced." Not being able to find it in those of his works which are accessible to me, j should esteem it a very... | |
| Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 Seiten
...and, as it were, to find itself alone before 45 God. EXERCISE III. Sorrow for the Dead. — W. IRVING. The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which...affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. * * * 5 Though it may sometimes throw a passing cloud even over the bright hour of gayety, or spread... | |
| Meta Lander - 1861 - 354 Seiten
...have lingered before thee, and turned and borne One vision away of the cloudless mom." MRS. HUMAN6 "THE sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which...affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. Who, even when the tomb is closing upon one he most loves, — when he feels his heart crushed as it... | |
| Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 Seiten
...of the blessed God which was committed to my trust, [for that.] SEC. LXXVIII. SORROW FOR THE DEAD. 1 Sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which...refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to 2 heal: every other affliction to forget ; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open : this... | |
| 1850 - 426 Seiten
...rei.sual desiie, and returns, like a holy flame, to illumine and sanrti. fy the heart of the survivor. The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other would we seek to heal — everv other affliction to forget ; but this would we consider a duty tc keep... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 322 Seiten
...and sanctify the heart of the survivor. heal, every other affliction to forget, hut this wound wts consider it a duty to keep open, — this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.4. Where is the mother that would willingly forget the infant that perished like a blossom... | |
| Martha Noyes Williams - 1853 - 290 Seiten
...go, too, with sound of trumpet, and be ever with him. THE GRAVE. 223 THE GRAVE. WASHINGTON IRVING. THE sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which...mother who would willingly forget the infant that has perished like a blossom from her arms, though every recollection is a pang? Where is the child... | |
| Lewis C. Munn - 1853 - 450 Seiten
...and those tongues shall prolong the fame, of GEORGE WASHINGTON ! SORROW FOR THE DEAD. — W. Irving. SORROW for the dead is the only sorrow from which...cherish and brood over in solitude. Where is the mother that would willingly forget the infant that perished like a blossom from her arms, though every recollection... | |
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