The Issues of Life and Death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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James Montgomery
Geburtstag: 4. November 1771
Todesdatum: 30. April 1854
James Montgomery was a Scottish-born hymn writer, poet and editor. His writings reflected concern for humanitarian causes such as the abolition of slavery and the exploitation of child chimney sweeps. He was raised in and theologically trained by the Moravian Church. Wikipedia
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„Joys too exquisite to last,
And yet more exquisite when past.“
The Little Cloud.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 322.
Other
„When the good man yields his breath
(For the good man never dies).“
The Wanderer of Switzerland, Part v. Compare: "Say not that the good die" (translated from original Greek), Callimachus, Epigram x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea.“
The Ocean, Line 54.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Introductory Essay-Christian Psalmist,or Hymns Selected & Original (1825).
Other
What is Prayer?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„Counts his sure gains, and hurries back for more.“
The West Indies, Part iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Falling Leaf.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Earth full of God's Goodness.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 173.
Other
„Nor sink those stars in empty night:
They hide themselves in heaven's own light.“
Friends.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Issues of Life and Death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
At Home in Heaven.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans;
High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.“
Canto V, line 144.
The Pelican Island (1827)
Friends.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
What is Prayer?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.“
The World before the Flood, Canto v. Compare: "It is to hope, though hope were lost", Anna Letitia Barbauld, Come here, Fond Youth.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Little Cloud.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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