 | 1828 - 608 ページ
...continues with increasing infirmities, the vital spark faintly quivering in the frame, till at last the " silver cord is loosed — the golden bowl broken — the pitcher broken at the fountain — the wheel broken at the cistern — the dust returning to the earth as it was, and the spirit to... | |
 | 1828 - 614 ページ
...continues with increasing infirmities, the vital spark faintly quivering in the frame, till at last the " silver cord is loosed — the golden bowl broken — the pitcher broken at the fountain — the wheel broken at the cistern — the dust returning to the earth as it was, and the spirit to... | |
 | 1832 - 678 ページ
...Consider, youthful hearer, by what frail ties you are bound to earth ; how easily the silver cord of life is loosed ; the golden bowl broken ; the pitcher broken at the fountain ; and the wheel broken at the cistern. Consider how liable this perishing dust is, at any moment, to... | |
 | Grace Aguilar, Sarah Aguilar - 1853 - 194 ページ
...prayers shall bid me think, another day of my earthly career is run, and 1 am nearer that awful hour when " the silver cord is loosed, the golden bowl broken, the pitcher broken at the fountain, the wheel broken at the cistern, when the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1828 - 612 ページ
...continues with increasing infirmities, the vital spark faintly quivering in the frame, till at last the " silver cord is loosed — the golden bowl broken — the pitcher broken at the fountain — the wheel broken at the cistern — the dust returning to the earth as it was, and the spirit to... | |
 | 1894 - 1228 ページ
...our brother with the "earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust," at the open grave. When for him "the silver cord is loosed," "the golden bowl broken," "the pitcher broken at the fountain," "the wheel broken at the cistern;" when his "dust has returned to the earth as it was," and "his spirit... | |
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... music is heard with indifference, and nature unfolds her beauties in vain. Memory, the understanding, and judgment fail ; in short, the intellectual faculties become enfeebled and puerile; and this stage continues with increasing infirmities, the... 