“So bless, you my darling, my angel,
Heaven is mine and life is divine with you.”
Song Bless You For Being An Angel
Source: The Phantom of the Opera
“So bless, you my darling, my angel,
Heaven is mine and life is divine with you.”
Song Bless You For Being An Angel
“Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.”
Nathaniel Cotton (1707–1788) British writer
To-morrow, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book Kavanagh
Kavanagh.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I have no doubt that in heaven the angels will regard the blessed as a necessary evil.”
Alan Bennett (1934) English actor, author
Diary entry for August 9, 1985, p. 290.
Writing Home (1994)
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Song 35: "A Cradle Hymn".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
Arthur Kenney (1776–1855) Irish dean
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 304.
“My spirit longs for Thee,
Within my troubled breast,
Though I unworthy be
Of so divine a Guest.”
John Byrom (1692–1763) Poet, inventor of a shorthand system
"The Desponding Soul's Wish" (also called "My Spirit Longs For Thee")
Miscellaneous Poems (1773)
“Calm on the bosom of thy God,
Fair spirit, rest thee now!”
Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) English poet
The Siege of Valencia (1823), scene ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Richard Baxter book A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live
A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live, Sermon 1