| James Rondeau - 1820 - 168 pages
...half so grateful, when the Christian hears The charming theme of death ; — this makes him sing, " Oh grave, where is thy victory — oh death, where is thy sting." . With such reflections, dear Papa, I come Again to enjoy the " dear delights of home." Happy am I,... | |
| 1847 - 660 pages
...smiled assent, and said, " I am happy." His eyes glistened with gladness as I repealed the passage. " Oh, grave, where is thy victory ? Oh, death, where is thy sting ? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law ; but, thanks be to God, who giveth us the... | |
| John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly ! Oh grave! where is thy ^victory ? Oh death ! where is thy sting ? EPITAPH ON MRS CORBET. HERE rests a woman, good without pretence, Bless'd with plain reason, and... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 pages
...sometimes partakes of the character of personification : as St. Paul, in holy rapture, exclaims, " Oh Grave ! where is thy victory ? Oh Death ! where is thy sting ?" "This figure," says Walker, "is seldom used; but when, in a violent commotion, the speaker turns... | |
| 1828 - 398 pages
...— the grave, and death. There I there ! they wait to welcome thee ; And high their triumphs ring, " Oh grave where is thy victory ? " Oh death where is thy sting !" LINES ON A MARRIAGE WHICH TOOK PLACE AT BOLTON, \Gth Oct. 1828. MARRIAGE is, if truth be told, Better... | |
| 1831 - 308 pages
...Aspire, my soul ! prolong the strain of heaven's exultation ! " Lend, lend your wings ! I mount, I fly ! Oh grave, where is thy victory ! Oh death, where is thy sting !" ' For the Lutheran Magazine. PROTESTANTISM IN SPAIN; ITS PROGRESS AND ITS SUPPRESSION. (Concluded.)... | |
| James Athearn Jones - 1831 - 240 pages
...opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring : Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! — . Oh, Grave ! where is thy victory ? Oh, Death ! where is thy sting ?" While we were singing the two first staneas of this hymn, we heard occasionally a low moan from... | |
| 1833 - 432 pages
...and which you sing so well ; for your voice, you know, is the only very good one in the family — ' Oh, grave, where is thy victory ! Oh death, where is thy sting !' .- t. • ' It was mere fancy, John,' said I, nearly choked with tears. ' It was not fancy, Lynn... | |
| 1834 - 428 pages
...broke forth in ardent praise, And then he shouted loud and high — Even now I hear him sing, — " Oh grave, where is thy victory ! Oh death, where is thy sting !" REZENI INDEX. Page A New Year's Gift 1 A ditto, from an Elder to a Juvenile Disciplej of our Lord... | |
| 1837 - 830 pages
...cemetery of Père la Chaise, where indeed one would be tempted to exclaim, if it were not profanity — "Oh grave where is thy victory — Oh death where is thy sting" — so completely is the tomb divested of its horrors by the loveliness of the spot, and the general... | |
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