 | Religion - 1831 - 416 pages
...against the approach of death. " Great God, on what a slender thread, Hang everlasting things !" " The spider's most attenuated thread, Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss." Go to yonder grave-yard. Take a view of the graves with which you find it crowded.... | |
 | Charles Jenkins - Congregational churches - 1832 - 426 pages
...him in acts so tremendous—when rocks melt away in the breath of the Almighty, he must feel that " The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable to man's tender tie On earthly bliss—it breaks at every breeze." He must feel the instructive lesson taught by the scene... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1832 - 410 pages
...song. Wafted in grand simplicity along, On the Death of Mr. Woodward, at Edinburgh.— Brainard. " Tho spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss ; it breaks at every breeze." Another ! 'tis a sad word to the heart, That one by... | |
 | Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...the instability of things in this world." And Young, in his beautiful and impressive exclamation— " The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss, it breaks with every breeze." In conclusion, it appears from the statements of ancient... | |
 | Edward Young - Didactic poetry, English - 1837 - 556 pages
...pompous furniture? The cobweb'd cottage, with its ragged wall Of mouldering muil, is royalty to me! The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earihly Miss; it bre..ks at every breeze. O ye blest scenes of permanent delight! Full, above measure!... | |
 | Edward Young - Bible - 1839 - 300 pages
...pompous furniture? The cobwebb'd cottage, with its ragged wall Of mouldering mud, is royalty to me! The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze. O ye blest scenes of permanent delight! A perpetuity of... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...pompous furniture ? The cobwebb'd cottage, with its ragged wall Of mouldering mud, is royalty to me ! The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie fcOo earthly bliss; it breaks Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself: How was my heart incmsted... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...pompous furniture ? The cobweb'd cottage, with its ragged wall Of mouldering mud, is royalty to me ! The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss ; it breaks at every breeze. • • • • Yet why complain ! or why complain for... | |
 | Robert Patterson - Insects - 1841 - 300 pages
...(c. viii. v. 14). In a similar signification it has been most appropriately employed by Young— " The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze." Night noughts, Night I. In foreign countries, instances... | |
 | William Jones - 1842 - 294 pages
...I received him as the Lord's gift, with gratitude and joy. But, alas for merely human happiness ! ' The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable to man's tender tie On earthly bliss : it breaks at every breeze.' Before eight months had run their scanty round, he sickened,... | |
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10. On a stone to the memory of Thomas Jackson, died in 1794: The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie. MARTHA COTTON, 1796. - Many years I lived, Many painful scenes I passed, Till God at last Called me home. 
