 | Edward Young - Fore-edge painting - 1834 - 370 pages
...where men, and angels, meet, Eat the same manna, mingle earth and heaven. How distant some of these nocturnal suns ! So distant (says the sage) 'twere...world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever : who can satiate sight In such a scene ? in... | |
 | Edward Young - Bible - 1839 - 300 pages
...distant, says the sage,* 'twere not absurd To doubt, if beams, set out at nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever: who can satiate sight In such a scene ? in... | |
 | Robert Sears - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 514 pages
...distant, says the sage, 'twere not absurd To doubt that beams set out at Nature's birth Hnd yet arrived at this so foreign world, Though nothing half so rapid as their flight !" The different colors of the stars, as alluded to by the author, is likewise a remarkable phenomenon,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...their distance, has not yet reached our globe, though Btill destined to come within range of the eye. " How distant some of the nocturnal suns ! So distant,...world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight." However marvellous the statement, it is strictly true, that when we gaze upon the heavens, observe... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...(says the sage) 'twere not absurd 122f, To doubt if beams, set out at Nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world, Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever. Who can satiate sight 1230 In such a scene... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...(says the sage) 'twere not absurd 1225 To doubt if beams, set out at Nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world, Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever. Who can satiate sight 1230 In such a scene... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 602 pages
...(says the sage) 'twere not absurd 1225 To doubt if beams, set out at Nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world, Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever. Who can satiate sight 1230 In such a scene... | |
 | Edward Young - Death in literature - 1853 - 368 pages
...distant (says the sage), 'twere not absurd To doubt, if beams, set out at Nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. mo An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever : who can satiate sight In such a scene... | |
 | Edward Young, George Gilfillan - Death in literature - 1853 - 354 pages
...distant (says the sage), 'twere not absurd To doubt, if beams, set out at Nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. ma An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever : who can satiate sight In such a scene... | |
 | Edward Young - 1853 - 382 pages
...distant (says the sage), 'twere not absurd To doubt, if beams, set out at Nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. mo An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever : who can satiate sight In such a scene... | |
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How distant some of these nocturnal suns ! So distant (says the sage) 'twere not absurd To doubt, if beams, set out at nature's birth, Are yet arriv'd at this so foreign world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. 
