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" Ah, lovely appearance of death ! What sight upon earth is so fair ? Not all the gay pageants that breathe Can with a dead body compare... "
Biographical Memoirs of the Late Rev. John Gano, of Frankfort (Kentucky ... - Page 147
by John Gano - 1806 - 151 pages
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A pocket hymn book, collected from various authors

Pocket hymn book - 1796 - 252 pages
...To my Redeemer's breaft. HYMN CXCIV. 1 /iH! lovely appearance of death, What fight upon earth is fo fair ? Not all the gay pageants that breathe, Can with a dead body comparei With folemn delight I furvey The corpfe when the fpirit is fled, In love with the beautiful...
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The Works of the Rev. John Wesley. ...

John Wesley - Methodism - 1810 - 432 pages
...room, where her remains lay, we were surprised. A more beautiful corpse I never saw : we all sung, " Ah ! lovely appearance of death, . . , . What sight upon earth is so fair I . • . . Not all the gay pageants that breathe, .• , Can with a dead body compare."; . . • All...
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany, Volume 6

1843 - 636 pages
...I thought for the first time of Whitfielfl's hymn, which I had before thought better omitted — ' Ah ! lovely appearance of death, What sight upon earth is so fair. Not all the gay pageants that breath>-. Can with a dead body compare!' " The funeral was attended by a great eonconrse of friends...
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A collection of hymns, compiled by J. Jea

Collection - 1816 - 278 pages
...stars in the firmament bright. And pure as the angels of God. HYMN 249. (LM) For a deceased Sister. 1 AH, lovely appearance of death ! -**- What sight upon earth is so fair 1 Not all the fine things upon earlh, Can with her dead body compare. 2 With solemn delight I survey'd...
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The Methodist Pocket Hymn-book, Revised and Improved: Designed as a Constant ...

Methodist Episcopal Church - Hymns, English - 1817 - 610 pages
...life of glory; Suffer, with thy Lord to reiga. Hymn 259. 'PM 1 AH! lovely appearance of death,. -C\- What sight upon earth is so fair? Not all the gay pageants that hreathe Can with a dead hody compare : With solemn delight I survey The corpse when the spirit is fled...
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Hymns, Original and Selected, for Public Worship, and Private Devotion ...

Richard Herne Shepherd - Hymns, English - 1818 - 684 pages
...Precious in the Siyht of the Lord, is the Death of his Saints. (PM) ! lovely appearance of death, No sight upon earth is so fair ; Not all the gay pageants that breathe, Can with this dead body compare ; With solemn delight I survey The corpse, when the spirit is fled, In love...
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review

Methodist Church - 1819 - 494 pages
...thousand to experience religion, and obtain mercy at such a time as this." He then wished us to sing, " Ah ! lovely appearance of death, What sight upon earth...pageants that breathe Can with a dead body compare." and again, " And must this body die ? This well- wrought frame decay? And must these active limbs of...
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The Methodist Magazine, Volume 6

Methodist Church - 1823 - 494 pages
...of solemn delight, I surveyed the pleasing countenance, I could not but reflect with the poet,— " Ah ! lovely appearance of death, What sight upon earth...fair ? Not all the gay pageants that breathe Can with this dead body compare." " Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his."...
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Memoirs of the Wesley Family;: Collected Principally from Original Documents

Adam Clarke - 1824 - 466 pages
...upon his throne.'" She objected strongly to those lines in Mr. Charles Wesley's Funeral Hymns : — " Ah lovely appearance of death ; What sight upon earth is so fair," Sic. Her favourite Hymn among these was, " Rejoice for a brother deceased," &.c. Few persons could...
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The journal of the rev. John Wesley, Volume 4

John Wesley - 1827 - 580 pages
...where her remains lay, we were surprised. A more beautiful corpse I never saw : we all sung :— " Ah lovely appearance of death ! What sight upon earth...pageants that breathe, Can with a dead body compare ! " All the company were in tears ; and in all, except her mother, who sorrowed, (but not as one without...
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