 | 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... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1834 - 264 pages
...elevating sadness, and the night Of death is lit by those immortal stars Which revelation sphered in heaven ! How pure The grace, the gentleness, of virtuous...man is honour'd and revered, And breathes upon the young-limb'd race around A gray and venerable charm of years. Nor,—glory to the Power that tunes... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - Christian life - 1836 - 340 pages
...elevating sadness, and the night Of death is lit by those immortal stars Which revelation sphered in heaven ! ***** How pure The grace, the gentleness,...man is honour'd and revered, And breathes upon the young-limb'd race around A gray and venerable charm of years. Nor, — glory to the Power that tunes... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Our life - 1865 - 234 pages
...in day. A CHEERFUL OLD AGE. " Children's children rode on his knee, And heard his great watch tick." 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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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... 
