 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 702 pages
...‘¿JE midnight Shades, o'er Nature fpreaci I A Dumb (ilence of the dreary hour!. In honour of th' approaching dead, Around your awful terrors pour. Yes, pour around, On this pale ground, Through all this deep furrounding gloom,, The fober thought, The tear untaught, Thofe meeteft mourners... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 370 pages
...HYMN. I. YE midnight fhades, o'er Nature fpread t Dumb filence of the dreary hour I In honour of th' approaching dead, Around your awful terrors pour. Yes, pour around, On this pale ground, Through all this deep furrounding gloora > The fober thought, The tear untaught, Thofe meeteft mourners... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 368 pages
...HYM I. YE midnight {hades, o'er Nature fpread t Dumb filence of the dreary hour t In honour of th' approaching dead, Around your awful terrors pour. Yes, pour around, On this pale ground, Through all this deep furrounding gloom, The fober thought,. The tear untaught,. Thofe meeteft mourners... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 404 pages
...HYMN. "\7 E midnight fliades, o'er Nature fpread ! Dumb filence of the dreary hour ! In honour of th' approaching dead, Around your awful terrors pour. Yes, pour around, On this pale ground, Through all this deep furrounding gloom, The fober thought, The tear untaught, Thofe meeteft mourners... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 512 pages
...HYMN. • I. YE midnight ihades, o'er Nature fpread ! Dumb iUence of the dreary hour ! In honour of th' approaching dead, Around your awful terrors pour. Yes, pour around, On this pale ground, Through all this deep furrounding gloom, The fober thought, The tear untaught, Thofe meeteft mourners... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 pages
...Mallet. YE midnight (hades, o'er nature spread t Dumb silence of the dreary hour ! In honour of th' approaching dead. Around your awful terrors pour. Yes, pour around. On this pale ground, Through all this deep surrounding gloom. The sober thought. The tear untaught, Those mcctest mourners... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 pages
...more, She now no change, nor you no fear can feel: Death, to her fame, has fix'd th' eternal seal! A FUNERAL HYMN. Ye midnight shades, o'er Nature spread! Dumb silence of the dreary hour ! In honour of th' approaching dead, Around your awful terrours pour. Yes, pour around, On this pale ground,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 552 pages
...the Gentile's scorn; No censer round our altar beams, And mute our timbrel, trump, and horn. But THOU hast said, The blood of goat, The flesh of rams, I...heart, an humble thought, Are mine accepted sacrifice. When the sounds of Rebecca's devotional hymn had died away in silence, the low knock at the door was... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...more ; She now no change, nor you no fear, can feel; Death to her fame has fix'd the' eternal seal. A FUNERAL HYMN. YE midnight shades ! o'er Nature spread, Dumb silence of the dreary hour; In honour of the' approaching dead Around your awful terrors pour. Yes, pour around On this pale ground,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 328 pages
...Gentile's scorn; No censer round our altar beams, And mute are timbrel, trump and horn. " But THOU hast said, the blood of goat, The flesh of rams I...heart, an humble thought, Are mine accepted sacrifice. When the sounds of Rebecca's devotional hymn had died-away in silence, the low knock at the door was... | |
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the blood of goat, The flesh of rams, I will not prize ; A contrite heart, an humble thought, Are mine accepted sacrifice." FUNERAL HYMN. YE midnight shades, o'er nature spread! Dumb silence of the dreary hour! In honor of the approaching dead, Around... 
