 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious 'noughts had rest in heaven. AS some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Near yonder thorn that lifts its head on high, Where... | |
 | George Peck - Methodism - 1848 - 498 pages
...his government. No desolation of heart, though the sources of his temporal enjoyments are diminished. "As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." Place the Christian in affliction, and then you will... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...them his heart, his love, his griefs, were giv'u. But all his serious thoughts had rest in hcav'n. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way With... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...them his heart, his love, his sjriefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Cternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With... | |
 | 1849 - 770 pages
...vents, et laisse épuiser leur rage pendant qu'il demeure immobile." We must not forget Goldsmith : " As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." Cowper, in his Ode on Indifference, gives us : " Some... | |
 | George Mogridge - Lake region (Cumbria) - 1849 - 228 pages
...looked over it into the sun-lit vale below. This reminded me of those fine lines of Goldsmith — ' As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.' " " You were up above the very clouds, then ! " " We... | |
 | Christian union - 1849 - 780 pages
...evening of his life in the calm, clear, and bracing tranquillity that succeeds the tempest — •' As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm. Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." It only remains that we should subjoin the proceedings... | |
 | Robert Pollok - Covenanters - 1850 - 392 pages
...To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had vent in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.' FOURTEEN years had passed over this happy family, when... | |
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To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,... 
