 How shocking must thy summons be, O Death, To him that is at ease in his possessions; Who, counting on long years of pleasure here, Is quite unfurnish'd for that world to come ! In that dread moment, how the frantic soul Raves round the walls of her clay...  Meditations and Contemplations: In Two Volumes - Page 96by James Hervey - 1748Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gaspey - 1836 - 1034 pages
...and forgive. Engaged in silent prayer, he obeyed the request which had been preferred. CHAPTER XV. -' In that dread moment, how the frantic soul Raves round...walls of her clay tenement ; Runs to each avenue, and shrieks for help ! " BLAIR. THE eyes of Lord Roche were fixed on the lady, with an expression of the... | |
 | Levi Tucker - Baptists - 1837 - 200 pages
...declaration, that "the wicked is driven away in his wickedness." We will show you in their last moments, -How the frantic soul Raves round the walls of her clay tenement; Runs to each avenue, and shrieks for help — But shrieks in vain! How wishfully she looks On all she's leaving, now no longer... | |
 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...possessions : Who, counting on long years of pleasure here, Is quite unfuntish'd for that world to come! In that dread moment, how the frantic soul Raves round...walls of her clay tenement, Runs to each avenue, and shrieks for help, But shrieks in vain ! how wishfully she looks On all she 's leaving, now no longer... | |
 | Religious poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...possessions ; Who, counting on long years of pleasure here, Is quite imfunmh'.l for that world lo come I In that dread moment, how the frantic soul Raves round...walls of her clay tenement, Runs to each avenue, and shrieks for help, But shrieks in rain ! How wishfully she looks On all she's leaving, now no longer... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1838 - 400 pages
...or from a passage in the Alexander of Lee> with whose tragedies he seems to have been familiar : — In that dread moment, how the frantic soul Raves round the walls of her clay tenement, Guns to each avenue, and shrieks for help, But shrieks in vain ! how wistfully she looks On all she's... | |
 | T. H. Hudson - Christian socialism - 1839 - 338 pages
...horrid state in which the principles of infidelity may leave you. May you read them, and turn to God ! " In that dread moment how the frantic soul Raves round the walls of her clay tenement, Runs to cast over, and shrieks for help ; But shrieks in vain! How wishfully she looks On all she's leaving,... | |
 | S. G. Poole - 1841 - 150 pages
...pillow a dread spectacle of woe!—how powerfully is his state described in the language of Blair— " In that dread moment, how the frantic soul Raves round...walls of her clay tenement, Runs to each avenue, and shrieks for help, But shrieks in vain.—How wishfully she looks On all she's leaving, now no longer... | |
 | Joshua Wells Downing - Methodism - 1841 - 346 pages
...possessions; Who, counting on long years of pleasure here, Is quite unfumish'd for the world to come ! In that dread moment, how the frantic soul Raves round...walls of her clay tenement, Runs to each avenue, and shrieks for help; But shrieks in vain !" 2. This preparation may now be made. You may be sensible of... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - Christian biography - 1841 - 230 pages
...of death was now on him, and he was unprepared to die. Oh ! what horror hangs around that scene ! " In that dread moment, how the frantic soul Raves round the walls of its clay tenement, Runs to each avenue and shrieks for help, But shrieks in vain." Slowly but surely... | |
 | Joshua Wells Downing - Methodist Church - 1842 - 346 pages
...possessions; Who, counting on long years of pleasure here, Is quite unfurnish'd for the world to come ! In that dread moment, how the frantic soul Raves round...walls of her clay tenement, Runs to each avenue, and shrieks for help ; But shrieks in vain !" 2. This preparation may now be made. You may be sensible... | |
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