 | James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1831 - 658 pages
...death familiar to our minds, although he be the king of terrors, and stimulate ourselves to converse with our past hours, and ask them what report they bore to heaven, and bow they might have borne more welcome news. But, alas, how epidemical is this distemper! — ' all... | |
 | Harriet Newell - 1831 - 292 pages
...nothing. Let our imaginations often wing their way back to those hours which can never be recalled. " "Tig greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they've borne to heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news." Will the recollection of... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1831 - 414 pages
...and these purposes the most dull and insignificant imaginable. " 'Twere greatly wise," says Young, " to talk with our past hours, and ask them what report they bear to Heaven." But meagre and unsatisfactory would have been the register of Mrs Ribley's doings,... | |
 | Asa Dodge Smith - 1832 - 274 pages
...Inquire wherein you have gone astray from the path of duty, and how you may in future amend your ways. " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And...what report they bore to heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news." And this is never more proper, than when you are making a transition... | |
 | Edward Young, William Danby - 1832 - 306 pages
...dispositions which should accompany and direct it, under a still higher direction. For this, he says, " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And...what report they bore to heaven ! And how they might have borne more welcome news. Their answers form what men experience call, If wisdom's friend, her... | |
 | George Miller - 1833 - 428 pages
...retrospect of the above date, with one of the mottos, that I had adopted for my retrospections : " "Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven." I go on to say : — " So thought the poet — so, it appears, thought the patriarch Isaac, when he... | |
 | George Miller (of Dunbar) - 1833 - 422 pages
...retrospect of the above date, with one of the mottos, that I had adopted for my retrospections : " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report the; bore to heaven." I go on to say :—" So thought the poet—so, it appears, thought the patriarch... | |
 | Edward Young - 1834 - 370 pages
...took fire ; A moment, and the world's blown up to thee ; The sun is darkness, and the stars are dust. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And...what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news . Their answers form what men experience call ; If wisdom's friend, her... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1835 - 494 pages
...one of the most important duties in the life of a moral, and specially of a probationary, existence. 'Tis greatly wise, to talk with our past hours, And...what report they bore to Heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news. 1. Perform this duty deliberately. It is not the business of hurry or... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1835 - 382 pages
...or three of his illustrations, but they are not the most remarkable. To these two fine lines — " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past Hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven ;" he has given the illustration of one sitting and with an earnest countenance conversing with a small,... | |
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Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news. 
