VITAL spark of heavenly flame! Quit, O quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, O, the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life! Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister spirit,... The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 219by Alexander Pope - 1822 - 436 pagesFull view - About this book
| Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 pages
...ftriking circum* fiance of the dying man's imagining he hears a voice calling him away ; Vital fpark of heavenly flame Quit, O quit, this mortal frame ; Trembling, hoping, lingring, f flying, O the pain, the blifs of dying ! .* Of whom fays Lord Rochefter, Not that flow drudge in... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1762 - 362 pages
...preferved; the very turn of them is clofely copied by POPE; as is likewife the ftriking circumftance of the dying man's imagining he hears a voice calling him away; « Crafhaw has very well tranflated the dies irac, to which tranflation Rofcommon is much indebted,... | |
| Joseph Warton - Verse satire, English - 1772 - 374 pages
...preferved; the very turn of them is clofely co-» pied by POPE ; as is likewife the flriking circumftance of the dying man's imagining he hears a voice calling him away; « Vital fpark of heavenly flame Quit, O quit, this mortal frame ; Trembling, hoping, lingring, flying, O the... | |
| 1793 - 310 pages
...Chriilian addrefles his foul with a fine fpixit of poetical enthufiafm. Vital fpark of heavenly Same ! Quit, O quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, O ! the pain, the blifs of dying ! " • Hark ! they whifper Angels fay, Sifter fpirit, come away ! I was furprifed to... | |
| Augustus Toplady - Theology - 1794 - 500 pages
...immediately in, and found Ceafe, fond nature, ceafe thy ftrife; * Vital fpark of heav'nly flame, Quit, Oh quit this mortal frame! Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying: O the pain, the blifs, of dying! And let me languiih into life. II. Sifter fpirit, come away. Hark! they whifper. Angels... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 pages
...preferved, the very turn of them is clofely copied by Pope ; as is likewife the linking circumftance of the dying man's imagining he hears a voice calling him away. Vital fpark of heavenly flame Quit, O quit, this mortal frame ; Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, O the... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 444 pages
...preferved, the very turn of them is clofely icopied by Pope ; as is likewife the finking circumftance of the dying man's imagining he hears a voice calling him away. Vital fpark of heavenly flame Qwt, O quit, this mortal frame ; Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, O the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...raise ; All nature's incense rise ! THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL. AS ODE. VITAL spark of heav'nly flame, Quit, O quit this mortal frame : Trembling,...ling'ring, flying, O the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark ! they whisper ; angels... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 330 pages
...they are improved. The dying Christian addresses his soul with a fine spirit of poetical enthusiasm. Vital spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, O quit this...ling'ring, flying, O ! the pain, the bliss of dying ! i Hark ; they whisper Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away ! I was surprised to find this animated... | |
| George Richards - Hymns, English - 1802 - 370 pages
...amazing ! Oh mercy, how great ! Redemption through Jefus is wholly complete. Vi HYMN 412. PM ITAL fpark of heavenly flame, Quit, O quit, this mortal frame...Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, O the pain, the blifs of dying ! Ceafe, fond nature, ceafe thy ftrife, And let me languilh into life ! 2 Hark ! they... | |
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