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" How pure The grace, the gentleness, of virtuous age ! Though solemn, not austere ; though wisely dead To passion, and the wildering dreams of hope, Not unalive to tenderness and truth, — The good old man is honour'd and revered, And breathes upon the... "
Death; with other poems - Page 57
by Robert Montgomery - 1834
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Spirit of the English Magazines

1828 - 514 pages
...past, A music rolling from remember'd hours." The following picture of virtuous old age is pleasing. " How pure, The grace, the gentleness of virtuous age...unalive to tenderness and truth, — The good old man is honor'd and rever'd, And breathes upon the young-limb'd race around, The gray and venerable charm of...
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A Universal Prayer ; Death ; A Vision of Heaven ; and A Vision of Hell

Robert Montgomery - Fore-edge painting - 1829 - 200 pages
...elevating sadness, and the shades Of death dissolve amid those cheering rays Which revelation sheds from heaven. How pure The grace, the gentleness of virtuous...man is honour'd and revered, And breathes upon the young-limbM race around, The gray and venerable charm of years. Nor, — glory to the Power that tunes...
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A Universal Prayer ; Death ; A Vision of Heaven ; and A Vision of Hell

Robert Montgomery - Fore-edge painting - 1829 - 230 pages
...revelation sheds from heaven. s^T ... .-..:'. H How pure The grace, the gentleness of virtuous age 1 Though. solemn, not austere ; though wisely dead To passion, and the wildering dreams of hope, • j Not uualive to tenderness and truth, — The good old man is honour'd and revered, . • , And...
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Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Montgomery: With Introductory ...

Robert Montgomery - Christian life - 1836 - 340 pages
...ambition bound, Decay and cool, as further down the vale Of twilight years we wend, till all-resign 'd, The time-worn spirit ponders o'er the tomb With elevating...young-limb'd race around A gray and venerable charm of years. Nor, — glory to the Power that tunes the heart To sympathy with time ! — is all decay'd ; The verdure...
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Gems of sacred poetry [ed. by R. Cattermole?].

Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...sadness, and the night Of death is lit by those immortal stars, Which revelation sphered in heaven. i How pure The grace, the gentleness, of virtuous age!...unalive to tenderness and truth, — The good old man is honoured and revered, And breathes upon the young-limbed race around A gray and venerable charm of...
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Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, Volume 14

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1829 - 618 pages
...music rolling from remembered hour», p. til. The following picture of virtuous old age ы pleasing. How pure, The grace, the gentleness of virtuous age! Though solemn not austere; though wiselydead To passion, and the wildcring dreams of hope, Not unalive to tenderness and truth, — The...
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A cyclopædia of sacred poetical quotations, ed. by H.G. Adams

Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...use, And claims a reverence, in his shortening day, That 'tis an honour and a joy to pay. Coicper. How pure The grace, the gentleness of virtuous age!...unalive to tenderness and truth, — The good old man is honoured and revered, And breathes upon the young-limbed race around A grey and venerable charm of...
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Lectures on Theology

Bennet Tyler - Congregational churches - 1859 - 434 pages
...circle of family cares, sympathies, and joys, it might with special propriety be said of him, — " How pure The grace, the gentleness, of virtuous age...unalive to tenderness and truth, — The good old man is honored and revered, And breathes upon the young-limbed race around, A gray and venerable charm of...
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A Memoir of Rev. Bennet Tyler

Nahum Gale - 1860 - 160 pages
...circle of family cares, sympathies, and joys, it might with special propriety be said of him, — " How pure The grace, the gentleness, of virtuous age...unalive to tenderness and truth, — The good old man is honored and revered, And breathes upon the young-limbed race around, A gray and venerable charm of...
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Moral and Religious Quotations from the Poets: Topically Arranged ...

Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. How pure The grace, the gentleness of virtuous age!...not austere; though wisely dead To passion, and the 'wildoring dreams of hope, Not unalive to tenderness and truth; The good old man is honored and revered,...
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