 When Death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world, and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed...  Miscellanies - Page 25by Stephen Collins - 1842 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens - 1840 - 1066 pages
...free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world, and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such...and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven. It was late when the old man came home. The boy had led him to his own dwelling, under some pretence,... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1841 - 326 pages
...free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such...and his dark path becomes a way of light to heaven." * * Dickens. In the present state of society, when selfishness is, for the most part, the predominant... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1841 - 694 pages
...free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such...his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light lo heaven."* In the present state of society, when selfishness is, for the most part, the predominant... | |
 | 1842 - 420 pages
...When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the parting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of...his dark path becomes a way of light to heaven."— pp. 352, 353. Who can doubt that a writer so thoroughly imbued with the true spirit of humanity, so... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1842 - 416 pages
...When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the parting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of...and his dark path becomes a way of light to heaven." —pp. 352, 353. Who can doubt that a writer so thoroughly imbued with the true spirit of humanity,... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 356 pages
...free, A hundred virtues rise. In shapes of mercy, charity, and love, To walk the world and bless it. Of every tear That sorrowing mortals shed on such...graves, Some good is born, some gentler nature comes. Not a word of the original is changed in the above quotation, which is worthy of the best passages... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 274 pages
...free, A hundred virtues rise, In shapes of mercy, charity, and love, To walk the world and bless it. Of every tear That sorrowing mortals shed on such...graves, Some good is born some gentler nature comes." " Not a word of the original is changed in the above quotation, which is worthy of tne best passages... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 382 pages
...free, A hundred virtues rise, ' In shapes of mercy, charity, and love, TP walk the world und bless it Of every tear That sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, Some good ii born, some goutter nature couies. Not a word of the original is changed in the above quotation,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1846 - 828 pages
...free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world, and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such...and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven. It was late when the old man came home. The boy had led him to his own dwelling, under some pretence,... | |
 | Dickens - 1846 - 462 pages
...free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world, and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such...creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes aw ay of light to Heaven. 278 slumber held him a long time, and when he at length awoke the moon was... | |
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