First the flaming Red Sprung vivid forth ; the tawny Orange next ; And next delicious Yellow ; by whose side Fell the kind beams of all-refreshing Green : Then the pure Blue, that swells autumnal skies, Ethereal... Essays in Astronomy - Page 4421900 - 536 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Henry Smyth - 1864 - 108 pages
...theme, we will submit a reprint, with increment, of the Vllth Chapter of the — SPECULUM HARTWELLIANUM. First the flaming red Sprung vivid forth ; the tawny...the pure blue that swells autumnal skies, Ethereal play'd; and then of sadder hue, Emerg'd the deepen'd indigo, as when The heavy-skirted evening droops... | |
| James Thomson - 1868 - 416 pages
...Collecting every ray into his kind, 100 To the charm'd eye educ'd the gorgeous train Of parent colours. First the flaming Red Sprung vivid forth ; the tawny...the pure Blue, that swells autumnal skies, Ethereal play'd ; and then, of sadder hue, Emerg'd the deepen'd Indico, as when The heavy-skirted evening droops... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1872 - 406 pages
...find perhaps no apter account than the well-known lines of Thomson : — First the flaming red Sprang vivid forth ; the tawny orange next, And next delicious...the pure blue that swells autumnal skies, Ethereal play'd ; and then, of sadder hue Emerged the deeper indigo (as when The heavy-skirted evening droops... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1872 - 396 pages
...find perhaps no apter account than the well-known lines of Thomson : — First the flaming red Sprang vivid forth ; the tawny orange next, And next delicious...the pure blue that swells autumnal skies, Ethereal play'd ; and then, of sadder hue Emerged the deeper indigo (as when The heavy-skirted evening droops... | |
| James Thomson - 1873 - 760 pages
...Collecting every ray into his kind, iw To the charm'd eye educ'd the gorgeous train Of parent colours. First the flaming Red Sprung vivid forth ; the tawny...the pure Blue, that swells autumnal skies, Ethereal play'd ; and then, of sadder hue, Emerg'd the deepen'd Indigo, as when The heavy-skirted evening droops... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1875 - 408 pages
...find perhaps no apter account than the well-known lines of Thomson: — First the flaming red Sprang vivid forth ; the tawny orange next, And next delicious...Ethereal played ; and then, of sadder hue Emerged the deeper indigo (as when The heavy-skirted evening droops with frost), While the last gleamings of refracted... | |
| Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pages
...thirst ? Tieck. PRISMATIC COLOURS. THE gorgeous train Of parent colours. First the flaming Red Sprang vivid forth ; the tawny Orange next ; And next delicious...heavy-skirted evening droops with frost ; While the last gleaming of refracted light Died in the fainting Violet away. Thomson, Lines to the Memory of Sir Isaac... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1881 - 380 pages
...account than the well-known lines of Thomson : — First the flaming red Sprang vivid forth ; the tavray orange next, And next delicious yellow; by whose side...Ethereal played ; and then, of sadder hue Emerged the deeper indigo (as when The heavy-skirted evening droops with frost), While the last gloamings of refracted... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1889 - 296 pages
...world. Many things are colored, but the rainbow seems to be color itself. " First the flaming red Sprang vivid forth; the tawny orange next, And next delicious...the pure blue that swells autumnal skies, Ethereal play'd; and then, of sadder hue Emerged the deeper indigo (as when The heavy-skirted evening droops... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 306 pages
...world. Many things are colored, but the rainbow seems to be color itself. " First the flaming red Sprang vivid forth ; the tawny orange next, And next delicious...the pure blue that swells autumnal skies, Ethereal play'd ; and then, of sadder hue Emerged the deeper indigo (as when The heavy-skirted evening droops... | |
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