| James Thomson - 1811 - 182 pages
...earth, the grand ethereal bow Shoots np immense, and ev'ry hne nnfolds, In fair proportion rnnning from the red, To where the violet fades into the sky. Here, awfnl Newton, the dissolving clonds Form, fronting on the snn, thy show'ry prism ; And, to the sage-instrncted... | |
| James Thomson - 1813 - 346 pages
...ethereal bow Shoots up immense ; and every hue unfolds, In fair- proportion, running from the red, 205 To where the violet fades into the sky. Here, awful...sage-instructed eye unfold The various twine of light, by thee disclos'd 210 From the white mingling maze. Not so the boy ; He wondering views the bright enchantment... | |
| James Thomson, Samuel Johnson - 1813 - 180 pages
...Bestriding earth, the grand ethereal bow Shoots up immense ; and every hue unfolds^ In fair proportion running from the red, To where the violet fades into...dissolving clouds Form, fronting on the sun, thy showery prisa*; And to the sage -instructed eye unfold The various twine of light, by tbee disclosed From the... | |
| Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 468 pages
...Shoots up immense ; and every hue unfolds, In fair proportion, running from the red To where the vi'let fades into the sky. Here, awful Newton, the dissolving clouds Form, fronting on the sun, thy show'ry prism; And to the sage-instructed eye unfold The various twine of light, by thee disclos'd... | |
| James Thomson - 1816 - 256 pages
...Bestriding earth, the grand ethereal bow Shoots up immense, and ev'ry hue unfolds, In fair proportion running from the red, To where the violet fades into...the dissolving clouds Form, fronting on the sun, thy show'ry prism ; And, to the sage-instructed eye, unfold The various twine of light, by thee disclos'd... | |
| Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 pages
...Bestriding earth, the grand ethereal bow Shoots up immense ; and every hue unfolds, In fair pro|'ortion running from the red, To where the violet fades into...light, by thee disclosed From the white mingling maze. And more copiously still, in his poem to the memory of that divine philosopher : Light itself, which... | |
| James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - 1818 - 316 pages
...Bestriding earth, the grand ethereal bow Shoots up immense ; and every hue unfolds, In fair proportion running from the red, To where the violet fades into...sage-instructed eye unfold The various twine of light, by thee disclos'd From the white mingling maze. Not so the boy ; He wondering views the bright enchantment... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...Bestriding Earth, the grand ethereal bow Shoots up immense ; and every hue unfold^. In fair proportion n Aikin( cloufX-> Form, fronting on the Sun, thy showery prism, And to the sage-instructed eye unfold The various... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...Bestriding earth, the grand etherial bow Shoots up immense ; and every hue unfolds, In fair proportion running from the red, To where the violet fades into...light, by thee disclosed From the white mingling maze. Not so the boy; He wondering views the bright enchantment bend, Delightful, o'er the radiant fields,... | |
| James Thomson - 1822 - 174 pages
...Bestriding earth, the grand etherial bow Shoots up immense ; and every hue unfolds, In fair proportion running from the red To where the violet fades into...sage-instructed eye unfold The various twine of light, by tbee disclosed From the white mingling ma/.e. Not so the boy : He wondering views the bright enchantment... | |
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