 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 802 sidor
...Ccclestiall spheare : So rich with jewels nun;, that night Deth like an Ethiop bride appeaie : My soule her wings doth spread, And heaven-ward flies. The...large volumes of the skies. For the bright firmament Shootcs forth no flame So silent, but is eloquent In speaking the Creator's name. No unregarded star... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 440 sidor
...The Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. For the bright firmament Shootes forth no flame So silent, but is eloquent In speaking the Creator's name. No unregarded star Contraets its light Into so small a eharaeter, Remov'd far from our humane sight : But if we stedfast... | |
 | 1854 - 1112 sidor
...; Loud as night's thunder Ascends the glad psalm. — QJP CELESTIAL OBJECTS. AUGUST, 1854. :1 W«EM I survey the bright Celestial sphere, So rich with...mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. CELESTIAL OJUKCTS. " For the bright firmament Shoots forth no flame, So client, but is eloquent In... | |
 | 1837 - 540 sidor
...Penseroso" section, we gather a poem often quoted from, but seldom seen : — THE MI\ Mir rt OF HABINGTON. " When I survey the bright Celestial sphere So rich...unregarded star Contracts its light Into so small a character Removed far from hnman sight, " But if we steadfast look, We shall discern In it, as in some... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 sidor
...piers, and the ocean engulfed numberless ships and sailors, with an immense amount of property. NIGHT. When I survey the bright Celestial sphere : So rich...night Doth like an Ethiop bride appear : My soul her wing doth spread. And heaven-ward fliee, The Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volume of the... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - 1836 - 436 sidor
...lost in death's cold night, Who will remember, now I write ? " NIGHT SHOWETH KNOWLEDGE."— DAVID. WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere, So rich...unregarded star Contracts its light Into so small a character, Remov'd far from our human sight; But if we steadfast look We shall discern In it, as in... | |
 | Giles Fletcher - 1836 - 442 sidor
...lost in death's cold night, Who will remember, now I write ? " NIGHT SHOWETH KNOWLEDGE."— DAVID. WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere, So rich...unregarded star Contracts its light Into so small a character, Remov'd far from our human sight; But if we steadfast look We shall discern In it, as in... | |
 | Chandler Robbins Gilman - 1836 - 296 sidor
...those faintly blushing rays were most beautiful. I thought of those sweet lines of old Habingdon : " When I survey the bright Celestial sphere, So rich...bride appear ; My soul her wings doth spread, And upward flies, Th' Almighty mysteries to read In the large volume of the skies." Then came recollections... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 sidor
...noisome grave. Like a disabled pitcher of no use. — Blair. LESSON LXXXI. The Firmament. — HABINOTON. WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere ; So rich...unregarded star Contracts its light Into so small a character Removed far from our human sight ; But, if we steadfast look We shall discern In it, as in... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 sidor
...For both dissolve to air, if Thou Thy influence but withdraw. NOX NOCTI INDICAT SCIENTIAM.— DAVID. WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere, So rich...soul her wings doth spread, And heavenward flies, Th' Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volume of the skies. For the bright firmament Shoots... | |
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WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere; So rich with jewels hung, that night Doth like an Ethiop bride appear: My soul her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, The Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. For the bright firmament... 
