 | 1828 - 134 pages
...PM VITAL spark of heav'nly flame, Quit, Oh quit, this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain ! — the bliss of dying ! Cease,...quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath I Tell me my soul can this be death '. The world recedes, it disappears, Heav'n... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 pages
...Soul. VITAL spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, O quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying; Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond...quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul! can this be death ? The world recedes, it disappears! With... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1912 - 832 pages
...pain and wakefulness. and oppressive sinking of the soul, in her pleading voice, crying to the body, 'Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life,' — I have wondered with a great amazement, what invisible power held together a body and spirit so... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - 1913 - 632 pages
...SOUL Vital spark of heavenly flame, Quit, oh! quit this mortal frame! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, — Oh, the pain — the bliss of dying! Cease,...quite, — Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath? — Tell me, my soul! can this be death? The world recedes — it disappears;... | |
 | 1848 - 740 pages
...repeatedly, " God is very good to me : I am very, very happy." She also repeated the lines, — " O the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life." In the evening, her father was called to see her, it was thought for the last time. Her lip quivered... | |
 | 1820 - 980 pages
...thy little family, may they be as stars in the firmament for ever and ever;1' and then repeated, " Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, and let me languish into life," and then, " O death, where is thy sting? Thanks be to God, who giveth me the victory through our Lord... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - 1914 - 136 pages
...SOUL VITAL spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, oh, quit this mortal frame ; Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease,...Nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. BURNS 99 Hark ! they whisper ; Angels say, ' Sister Spirit, come away ! ' What is this absorbs me quite... | |
 | Alma Blount, Clark Sutherland Northup - 1914 - 400 pages
...you must not go. 17. There be some sports are painful. — SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest iii. 1. 1. 1 8. What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath? — POPE, The Dying Christian. 19. It is the cause and not our will, which asks Such actions at our... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1914 - 804 pages
...headache, and oppressive sinking, of the heart, and the soul in her pleading voice crying to the body, "Cease fond nature cease thy strife And let me languish into life," breakfast, and usually ran, like a flock of little sand-pipers, to get it over with. But the Doctor... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1916 - 160 pages
...Soul i VITAL spark of heav'nly flame ! Quit, oh quit this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling' ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond...Nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. n Hark ! they whisper ; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals... | |
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Hark, they whisper ; angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ! " What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my... 
