 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 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...awful, Newton, the dissolving clouds Form, fronting to the sun, thy showery prism, And to the sage-instructed eye, unfold The various twine of light, by... | |
 | 1813 - 998 pages
...Bestriding earth, the grand ethexifcl bow Shoots up immense, and every hue nnfoldsj In fair proportion running from the red, To where the violet fades into the sky." — THOMSON. It I> a very beautiful appearance generally known by the appelbtjon of the Rainbow or... | |
 | James Thomson - 1824 - 256 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 benii, Delightful, o'er the radiant fields,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 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...fronting on the sun, thy showery prism ; And, to the sage instructed eye, unfold The various twino of light, by thee disclosed From the white mingling maze.... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 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 the sky. Ji«/. REAPERS. Soon as the morning trembles o'er the sky, And, unperceiv'd, unfolds the spreading... | |
 | James Thomson - 1826 - 438 pages
...Bestriding earth, the grand ethereal how 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 hoy ; He wondering views the brigt enchantment bend... | |
 | James Thomson - 1826 - 176 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...unfold The various twine of light, by thee disclosed 210 From the white mingling maze. Not so the boy : He wondering views the brigl£ enchantment bend,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1826 - 268 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... | |
 | 1828 - 588 pages
...Bestriding earth, the grand ethereal how Shoots up immense, and every hue unfolds, In fair proportion running from the red, To where the violet fades into the sky. The above lines give a beautiful description of an April shower. Many animals seem to know of the approach... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 pages
...every place ; The face of nature wu no more »urrey, All glares alike, without distinction gay. Pope. Here, awful Newton, the dissolving clouds Form, fronting on the sun, thy showery prim. Thomson. If oyster-shells were thrown into a common fire and calcined for about half an hour,... | |
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Meantime, refracted from yon eastern cloud, 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 the sky. 
