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" I should prefer a firm religious belief to e,very other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness ; creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights... "
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening - Page 108
by Samuel Felton - 1830 - 221 pages
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The Quarterly Christian Spectator

1830 - 758 pages
...earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay, calls up hoauty and divinity, and makes an instrument of torture end of t-liamo the ladder of ascent to paradise....
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

1850 - 698 pages
...earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption...visions of palms and amaranths, the gardens of the blessed, the security of everlasting joys, — where the sensualist and sceptic view only gloom, decay,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 38

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 646 pages
...earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption...shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far ahove all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of palms and amaranths,...
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Debate on the Evidences of Christianity: Containing an ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Owen - 1829 - 568 pages
...gorgeous of all lighti awakens life in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinityi makes an instrument of torture and of shame, the ladder of ascent to paradise; and far atooveall combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of palms and amaranths,...
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The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 9

1832 - 524 pages
...creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish; and throws over the decay, the destruction ofexistence, the most gorgeous of lights; awakens life even in...combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visious of palms and amaranths, the gardens of the blest, the security of everlasting joys, where the...
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Salmonia: Or: Days of Fly Fishing. In a Series of Conversations; with Some ...

Sir Humphry Davy - 1832 - 330 pages
...earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption...ascent to paradise : and, far above all combinations tof earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of palms and amaranths, the gardens of the...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 1

1833 - 310 pages
...earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over tlie decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life even in death, and from corruption...earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of prims and amaranths, the gardens of the blest, the security of everlasting joys, where the sensualist...
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The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 9

1832 - 526 pages
...the most gorgeous of lights; awakens life even in death, and fmm corruption and decay calls up beamy and divinity: makes an instrument of torture and of...ladder of ascent to Paradise ; and, far above all comhinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of palms and amaranths, the gardens...
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The Grenada magazine; or, Monthly miscellany of religious and general ...

1833 - 124 pages
...¿orriiptloG and ilejcay¡ pjalla up beauty 'and divinity : makes án itiítrumén't of torture ami of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise, and far above all combi, nations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of palms and' amaranths, the...
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Journal of a Residence in Scotland, and Tour Through England, France ...

Henry Blake McLellan - 1834 - 416 pages
...throws ove» the decay, the' destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life in death ; and from corruption and decay calls up...and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and shame, the ladder of ascent to Paradise ; and far above all combinations of earthly hopes calls up...
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