Then, when the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place — when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave... The Practical Teacher - Page 2721883Full view - About this book
| Charles Dickens - 1841 - 402 pages
...groups of three or four, the church was cleared in time of all but the sexton and the mourning friends. They saw the vault covered and the stone fixed down....and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet gravein that calm time, when all outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality,... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1841 - 734 pages
...groups of three or four, the church was cleared in time of all but the sexton and the mourning friends. They saw the vault covered and the stone fixed down....not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place—when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and... | |
| Theology - 1842 - 420 pages
...truth and beauty of the following touching passage, that closes the account of little Nell's funeral. "They saw the vault covered and the stone fixed down....time, when all outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly hopes and fears are humbled in the dust before them,... | |
| Dickens - Gordon Riots, 1780 - 1846 - 462 pages
...groups of three or four, the church was cleared in time of all but the sexton and the mourning friends. They saw the vault covered and the stone fixed down....upon her quiet grave — in that calm time, when all ouhvard things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly hopes and fears... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1846 - 828 pages
...time of all but the sexton and the mourning friends. They saw the vault covered and the stone flxed down. Then, when the dusk of evening had come on,...time, when all outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly hopes and fears are humbled in the dust before them... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...of three or four, the church was cleared, in time, of all but the sexton and the mourning friends. Then, when the dusk of evening had come on, and not...it seemed to them, upon her quiet grave — in that cairn time when all outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly... | |
| Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...of three or four, the church was cleared, in time, of all but the sexton and the mourning friends. They saw the vault covered, and the stone fixed down....time, when all outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly hopes and fears are humbled in the dust before them... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1858 - 458 pages
...groups of three or four, the church was cleared in time, of all but the sexton and the mourning friends. They saw the vault covered, and the stone fixed down....them) upon her quiet grave— in that calm time, when outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly hopes and fears... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1859 - 422 pages
...of three or four, the church was cleared, in time, of all but the sexton and the mourning friends. Then, when the dusk of evening had come on, and not...stillness of the place; when the bright moon poured in hei litfht on toinlt and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and, most of all, it seem<-d to them,... | |
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