| 1851 - 650 sidor
...OFTEN have I swept backward in imagination six thousand years, and stood beside our great ancestor, as he gazed for the first time upon the going down...the eye is fixed in mute astonishment on the growing splendour, till the first rays of the returning sun dart their radiance on the young earth and its... | |
| Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1851 - 374 sidor
...beautiful scenes of earth, which, through the swift hours of the first wonderful day of his existence, hail so charmed his senses, are slowly fading one by one...the eye is fixed in mute astonishment on the growing splendour, till the first rays of the returning sun dart their radiance on the young earth and its... | |
| Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1851 - 366 sidor
...one from his dimmed vision. A gloom, deeper than that which covers earth, steals across the mind ot earth's solitary inhabitant. He raises his inquiring...the eye is fixed in mute astonishment on the growing splendour, till the first rays of the returning sun dart their radiance on the young earth and its... | |
| 1852 - 608 sidor
...and adores. The hours glide by — the silver moon is gone — the stars are rising, slowly aseending the heights of heaven, and solemnly sweeping downward...morning were the first day." " The curiosity excited on the first solemn night — the consciousness that in the heavens God had declared his glory — the... | |
| 1855 - 972 sidor
...and wonders, and adores. The hours glide by; the silver moon is gone, the stars are rising, slowing ascending the heights of heaven, and solemnly sweeping...the eye is fixed in mute astonishment on the growing splendour, till the first rays of the returning sun dart their radiance on the young earth and its... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1864 - 466 sidor
...streak of rosy light is seen in the east, — it brightens, — the stars fade, — the planets arc extinguished, — the eye is fixed in mute astonishment...inhabitant. To him " the evening and the morning were the first day." 5. The curiosity excited on this first solemn night, the consciousness that in the heavens... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1866 - 468 sidor
...light is seen in the east,—it brightens,—the stars fade,—the planets are extinguished,—the eye is fixed in mute astonishment on the growing splendor,...inhabitant. To him " the evening and the morning were the first day." sciousness that in the heavens God had declared his glory, the eager desire to comprehend... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 468 sidor
...light is seen in the east,—it brightens,—the stars fade,—the planets are extinguished,—the eye is fixed in mute astonishment on the growing splendor,...inhabitant. To him " the evening and the morning were the first day." sciousness that in the heavens God had declared his glorj the eager desire to comprehend... | |
| 1875 - 252 sidor
...slowly ascending the heights of heaven, and solemnly sweeping downward in the stillness of the night. A faint streak of rosy light is seen in the east ;...radiance on the young earth and its solitary inhabitant. The curiosity excited on this first solemn night, the consciousness that in the heavens God had declared... | |
| George Lansing Raymond - 1879 - 358 sidor
...The solitary gazer bows, wonders, and adores. emnly sweeping downward in the stillness of the night. A faint streak of rosy light is seen in the east;...radiance on the young earth and its solitary inhabitant. The curiosity excited on this first solemn night, the consciousness that in the heavens God had declared... | |
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