 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1883 - 464 pages
...day. How can we do it better than by going to the house of mourning, where our friends lie dead. " Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardors, and abate That glare of life, which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are... | |
 | Extracts - 1883 - 246 pages
...the " Monument " set before us " the last appearance of the Christian in the House of Prayer." — Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, to damp our brainless ardors, and abate that glare of life, which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are... | |
 | Bishop Samuel Fallows - 1884 - 524 pages
...our thoughts of it. Then all our hearts transfer themselves to it, and live in it. Then, in faith, Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud To damp our brainless ardors ; and abate That glare of life, which often blinds the wise. Much is gained as help... | |
 | Isaac Kaufman Funk - 1895 - 1030 pages
...is of great service before he is destroyed. Oh, what lessons some of us have learned from death ! " Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud to damp our brainless ardors ;" make us feel that these poor fleeting toys are not worth living for; that as others... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 pages
...of thought Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same, 02 THE DEATH OF FRIENDS. [From Niglt III.] Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours ; and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are... | |
 | 1895 - 376 pages
...is of great service before he is destroyed. Oh, what lessons some of us have learned from death ! " Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud to damp our brainless ardors ;" make us feel that these poor fleeting toys are not worth living for ; that as others... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 618 pages
...the magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves, — then dies the same. THE DEATH OF FRIENDS OUR dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardors; and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are pioneers,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 pages
...of thought Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same, Q2 THE DEATH OF FRIENDS. [From Night III.] Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours ; and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 450 pages
...the magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves, — then dies the same. THE DEATH OF FRIENDS. OUR dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardors ; and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1903 - 626 pages
...retain what we had. We have so hoped in vain. I can say with Young, in deep humiliation of soul, " Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardor, and abate That glare of life, which sometimes blinds the wise." Of the loss to you,... | |
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Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours, and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are pioneers, to smooth... 
