| Literature, Modern - 1901 - 744 pages
...so that, having fought the good fight, we can face the end with unwavering fortitude, each " As one who wraps the drapery of his couch around him And lies down to pleasant dreams." GL CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE. SCIENCE. AN excellent text-book of elementary botany has just been pub'lished,1... | |
| American literature - 1834 - 320 pages
...Bryant, it is asking too much to require any person to think of approaching such a receptacle, " Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch Around him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." Such a thing is not to be thought of, Then imagine yourself left sticking in the mud, the gloomy night... | |
| William Cutter Hanscom - Sermons, American - 1838 - 218 pages
...to his dungeon ; but, sustain'd and sooth'd, By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch Around him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." Once more. At such a season as this, when we are called to reflect upon the shortness of life, and... | |
| Criticism - 1856 - 652 pages
...commoner in Great Britain, and surrounded by blessings and honors, she at last Jays him to his rest, " Sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch \. ..' About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." The tale is pervaded with an earnest... | |
| Francis Mason - Christian converts - 1843 - 190 pages
...his fostering hand. And he went, "Not, like the quarry slave, at night Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.-'' " His rheumatic complaint," continues Mr.... | |
| 1874 - 590 pages
...dungeon, but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, — approach our grave, Like one that draws the drapery of his couch Around him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." ie WILLIAM CAUNT. I HAVE been asked to give a few particulars of my dear brother Caunt — for many... | |
| Francis Mason - Converts - 1847 - 126 pages
...his fostering hand. And he went, " Not, like the quarry slave, at night Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." " His rheumatic complaint," continues Mr. Abbott,... | |
| David Thomas - 674 pages
...Scourged to his dungeon; but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch Around him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." Mitcal [Contributed for the Homilist by the REV. WM. WEBSTER, MA, late Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge,... | |
| Christian literature, American - 1850 - 790 pages
...escaped his lips. " Sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust," he approached his grave, " like one who wraps the drapery of his couch around him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." On the evening previous to his demise, he requested his physician to remain, and witness his departure,... | |
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