| 1854 - 268 pages
...teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? When science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, When o'er the green undeluged earth... | |
| 1854 - 500 pages
...childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. When science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws !' Not that an adherence to the English version of the passage in Job is mere prejudice or fancy —... | |
| 1854 - 604 pages
...Optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow? When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of... | |
| James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1870 - 800 pages
...revealed that a magnetic disturbance had broken out on earth. Campbell wrote the familiar lines — * When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...lovely visions yield their place To cold material lawi!' But imagination cannot surpass the grandeur of the realities of things. Here are four classes... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 pages
...teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, 10 As when I dreamed of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow? When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place 15 To cold material laws! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told... | |
| Gems - 1871 - 280 pages
...teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamed of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws. And yet, fair how, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High Have told, why first thy robe of beams... | |
| William Osborn (schoolmaster) - 1871 - 114 pages
...teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold, Hid in thy radiant bow ? When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told, why first thy robe of... | |
| David Grant (of Aberdeen) - 1871 - 478 pages
...heaven. Can all that Optics teach unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of... | |
| Thomas Turner (F.S.S.) - 1872 - 204 pages
...optics teach unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? When science from creation's face Enchantment's veil...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of... | |
| School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Can all that optics teach unfold Hid in thy radiant bow ? When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws! But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams,... | |
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