...character grief imparts that solemn hue which brings us nearer to the angels. In the words of Cowper : " The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown." By the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. He who has been nursed in the school of...

...knowledge " ; and Tupper, " There is joy in sorrow, which none but a mourner can know " ; and Cowper, — " The path of sorrow, and that path alone. Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown." And Jesus tells us, " Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted." But how many reasons...

...has borne on any wave the shadow of a returning sail. We bow our heads in grief and mourn his loss. " The path of sorrow, and that path alone Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown." Our comp mion as a man, a citizen and brother had all those qualities which endear a man to men, and...

...household name of one whom God hath taken." Cowper's Grave: EB BROWNING. CHAPTER X. SPRING-TIME. " The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrows are unknown ; No traveller ever reached that blest abode, Who found not thorns and briars upon...

...household name of one whom God hath taken." Cou/per's Grave: EB BROWNING. CHAPTER X. SPRING-TIME. " The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrows are unknown ; No traveller ever reached that blest abode, Who found not thorns and briars upon...

...knavish trade, A coin by craft for folly's use designed, Spurious, and only current with the blind. The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown ; No traveller ever reached that blest abode, Who found not thorns and briers in his road. The world may dance along...

...enshrined byCowper in a melancholy little couplet, addressed to an afflicted Protestant lady — " The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown." But in the case of frail little children it was different, and Mr. Lydiat, with professional promptitude,...

...branch of a tree, that overhangs one of the principal winding gravel walks, which may be termed — The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown. Many sorrowful processions have passed that way, many thousands have gathered about the innumerable...

...as sharp as his own tongue, he wrote, in his beautiful, delicate, fine hand by way of trying it— ' The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown. ' Mrs. Butler did not know that the lines are from Cowper's ' Epistle to an afflicted Protestant Lady...

...that God's •*• -*• • training-school for usefulness is often, if not always, found in trial. " The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown." We have noted his boyish tenderness for his " dearest, sweetest mother." This controlling love of his...