...brother strangely introduced, unaltered, to his great collection : Ah, lovely appearance of death I What sight upon earth is so fair ? Not all the gay...pageants that breathe Can with a dead body compare. With solemn delight I survey The corpse when the spirit is fled ; In love with the beautiful clay,...

...awe I contemplated the still face of this utter stranger : " Oh, lovely appearance of death, M'hat sight upon earth is so fair ? Not all the gay pageants that breathe, Can with a dead body compare. With solemn delight I survey The corpse when the spirit is fled— In love with the beautiful clay....

...Die, to live a life of glory ; Suffer, with thy Lord to reign. 557 Carmel— p. 253.] 10th PM 8 Kna 8* AH, lovely appearance of death ! What sight upon earth...pageants that breathe Can with a dead body compare : With solemn delight I survey The corpse, when the spirit is fled. In love with the beautiful clay,...

...under such circumstances whilst looking at his remains could fully adopt the wordiof the poet : ' Ah 1 lovely appearance of death ! What sight upon earth...pageants that breathe Can with a dead body compare : With solemn delight 1 survey The corpse when the spirit is fled, In love with the beautiful clay,...

...his coffin, William would often look at him and repeat the verse, "A lovely appearance of death, No sight upon earth is so fair, Not all the gay pageants that breathe, Can with the dead body compare." Divine grace had thus enabled him so thoroughly to give up life and the world,...

...remains with admiration, and never felt more disposed to exclaim — " O lovely appearance of death ( No sight upon earth is so fair; Not all the gay pageants that breathe, Can with a dead body compare." It was rather surprising that so tender a flower could stand up so long under the withering influence...

...thou, And sing Hallelujah, Amen, Amen, even so let it he. Cnmpnted hy George 1Fhitefield. 1 All '. lovely appearance of death, What sight upon earth is so fair; Not all the gay pageants on earth, Can with this dead hody compare ! With solem:i delight I survey No longer a sinner like me....

...they could, with a slight alteration, apply his words to the holy dying, — " How lovely in valley of death, "What sight upon earth is so fair, Not all the gay pageants that breathe, Can with such a body compare." " This bright humanity through grace," has been seen not only in aged saints,...

...every beholder. An intelligent observer after silently gazing remarked, " Mr. Wesley is right ;" — " Ah ! lovely appearance of death ! What sight upon earth is so fair ?" While looking on that face I was strongly reminded of the expressive lines of Young, in his ' Narcissa'—...

...exercise and change of air. How the latter contributes to health I know not ; but certainly it does. This morning Abigail Pilsworth, aged fourteen, was...not as one without hope,) they were tears of joy. • O death, where is thy sting ?" LONDON, Jan. 20, 1789. AN EXTRACT OF THE REV. MR. JOHN WESLEY'S...