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.”
To-morrow, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.”
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.”
Diary entry for August 9, 1985, p. 290.
Writing Home (1994)
Song 35: "A Cradle Hymn".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
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.”
"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!”
The Siege of Valencia (1823), scene ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live, Sermon 1
