 Oh, the grave! the grave! It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.  The Saturday Magazine - Page 2061836Full view - About this book
 | Harry Stoe Van Dyk - Actors - 1822 - 178 pages
...charms for ever ; And then in solitude and blight are left — ELIZA dear, forget it never ! STANZAS. ' Oh the grave !— the grave !— It buries every error—...covers every defect —extinguishes every resentment !" " Sketch Boot." I. COLD Grave ! methinks, 'twere sweet, to rest Within thy lone but peaceful breast... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...gloom; yet who would exchange it, even for the song of pleasure, or the burst of revelry? No, there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There...every resentment ! From its peaceful bosom spring none butfond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not... | |
 | Psychology - 1828 - 394 pages
...gloom ; yet who would exchange it even for the song of pleasure, or the burst of revelry ? No, there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There...Oh the grave ! — the grave ! — It buries every errour — covers every defect — extinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...gloom'; yet who would exchange it, even for the song of pleasure, or the burst of revelry'? No'; there is a voice from the tomb' . . sweeter than song'....Oh, the grave'! — the grave'! — It buries every errour' — covers every defect' — extinguishes every resentment'! — From its peaceful bosom spring... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...who would exchange it, even for the song of pleasure, or the hurst of revelry ? No, there is a voica from the tomb sweeter than song. There is a remembrance...charms of the living. Oh the grave !— the grave! — 1t buries every error — covers every defect — extinguishes every resentment ! From its peaceful... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1835 - 398 pages
...gloom; yet who would exchange it even for the song of pleasure, or the burst of revelry ? No! there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song! There is a recollection of the dead, to which we turn even from the charms of the living. Oh the grave! the grave!... | |
 | Mrs. M. A. Patrick - Consolation - 1837 - 214 pages
...gloom ; yet who would exchange it even for the song of pleasure, or the burst of revelry? No; there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There...even from the charms of the living. Oh, the grave ! — it buries every sorrow — covers every defect—extinguishes every resentment ! From its peaceful... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...gloom ; yet who would exchange it, even for a song of pleasure, or the burst of revelry ? No, there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There...error — covers every defect- — -extinguishes every sentiment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look... | |
 | 1839 - 460 pages
...below.— .Ryan's William III. THE GRAVE. — Oh, the grave ! the grave ! It bruises every terror, covers' every defect, extinguishes every resentment....regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upoi the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious tbrob that ever he should have warred... | |
 | 1839 - 256 pages
...gloom ; yet who would exchange it even for the song of pleasure, or the burst of revelry ? No, there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There...remembrance of the dead, to which we turn even from the ckarms of the living. Oh, the grave ! — the grave! — It buries every error — covers every defect... | |
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