| Isaac Watts - English poetry - 1807 - 410 pages
...beanties are best ; He paints the sky gay, as he sinks to his rest, And ion•Ids a bright rising again. Just such is the Christian ; his course he begins, ' Like the sun in a mist, while he mourns forhissinsi ' •\i'd melts into tears ; then he breaks out and shines, » • And travels his heavenly... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 472 pages
...beauties are best ; He paints the sky gay as he sinks to his rest, And foretells a bright rising again. Just such is the Christian : His course he begins, Like the sun in a mist, when he mourns for his sins, And melts into tears : Then he breaks out and shines, And travels his... | |
| Erasmus Middleton - Christian biography - 1807 - 662 pages
...whose errors be had freely attacked, and "••!»> may therefore be disposed to consider him, not ia And melts into tears. Then he breaks out, and shines. And travels his liearenly way. . But, as lie draws nearer to finish his race, Like a fine seitini; <un, he looks richer... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...archest; He paints the sky pay as he sinks to his rest, And forctcls a bricht riding again. Just ;nch pood old hall, Silence without, ami fasts within llie wall : No when he niournsfprhisains, And melts into tears ; then he breaks out Scshim*, And travels his heavenly... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...beauties are best"; He paints the sky gay as he sinks to his rest, And foretels a bright rising again. Just such is the Christian : his course he begins, Like the Sun in a mist, while he mourns for his sms, And melts into tears : then he breaks out and shines, And travels his heavenly way : Bot when... | |
| Isaac Watts - Children's poetry - 1800 - 82 pages
...Sky gay as he finks to his Juft fuch is the Chriftian : His Courfe he begins, Like the Sun in a Mift, while he mourns for his Sins, And melts into Tears : Then he breaks out and ihines, And travels his heavenly Way ; But when he comes nearer ts finifli his Race, Like a fine fetting... | |
| Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 574 pages
...foretels a bright rising again. î Just such is the Christian : His course he begins, Like the äun in a mist, while he mourns for his sins, And melts...tears: Then he breaks out and shines, And travels his heav'nly way : But when he comes nearer to finish his race, Like a fine setting Sun he looks richer... | |
| Erasmus Middleton - Christian biography - 1816 - 548 pages
...lines of Dr. Watts : " Just such is the Christian— His race he begins, Like the sun in a mist, when he mourns for his sins, And melts into tears. Then...out, and shines, And travels his heavenly way. But, as he draws nearer to finish his race, Like a fine setting sun, he looks richer in grace ; And gives... | |
| 1843 - 628 pages
...beautifully described his path in words which, though now so familiar, will still bear repetition. Just such is the Christian — his course he begins, Like the sun in a mist, when he mourns for his sins, And melts into tears ; then he breaks out and shines, And travels his... | |
| W. JILLARD HORT - 1822 - 156 pages
...beauties are best, He paints the sky gay as he sinks to his rest, And foretells a bright rising again. Just such is the Christian, his course he begins, Like the sun in a mist, when he mourns for his sins, He melts into tears; then he breaks out and shines, And travels his heavenly... | |
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