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" WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere; So rich with jewels hung, that night Doth like an Ethiop bride appear: My soul her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, The Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. For the bright firmament... "
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge - Page 24
1832
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The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship ...

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 pages
...Faust. and W'dkdm Meitter. "NIGHT TEACHETH KNOWLEDGE," When I survey the bright Cœlestiall spheare : So rich with jewels hung, that night Doth like an Ethiop bride арреаге : My souli! her wings doth spread, And heaven-ward flie«, The Almighty's mysteries...
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English Poetry, Volume 40

1910 - 498 pages
...There wants no marble for a tomb Whose breast hath marble been to me. 84 Nox NOCTI INDICAT SCIENTIAM WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere ; So rich...My soul her wings doth spread And heavenward flies, Th' Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volume of the skies. For the bright firmament Shoots...
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The Pageant of English Poetry: Being 1150 Poems and Extracts by 300 Authors

Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 642 pages
...is gone, Judging her the setting sun. W. HABINGTON. 423. WHEN I SURVEY THE BRIGHT CELESTIAL SPHERE WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere ; So rich...silent, but is eloquent In speaking the Creator's nams. 424. No unregarded star Contracts its light Into so small a character, Removed far from our human...
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The Home Book of Verse, American and English ..., Volume 8, Pages 3149-3742

1912 - 616 pages
...deed's achieved, Determined, dared, and done! Christopher Smart [1722-1771] NOX NOCTI INDICAT SCIENTIAM WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere; So rich...unregarded star Contracts its light Into so small a character, Removed far from our human sight, But if we steadfast look We shall discern In it, as in...
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Origin of Architectural Design: Or, The Archaeology of Astronomy

Lee Herbert McCoy - 1912 - 200 pages
...therefrom such wonderful concepts ot divinity and beauty, although crudely applied in art and science. "When I survey the bright Celestial sphere, So rich...mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies." Yet we think that when we have succeeded in arriving at the true meaning or value of religious customs...
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The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - 1912 - 508 pages
...To live with Him, and sing in endless morn of light ! /. Milton CXLVIII NOX NOCTI INDICAT SCIENTIAM When I survey the bright Celestial sphere : So rich with jewels hung, that night 25 Doth like an Ethiop bride appear ; My soul her wings doth spread, And heavenward flies, The Almighty's...
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The Stars and Their Stories: A Book for Young People

1913 - 312 pages
...172 Facing 188. . 194 Facing 234 . 258 259-264 THE STARS AND THEIR STORIES THE VOLUME OF THE SKIES When I survey the bright Celestial sphere, So rich...mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. — WILLIAM HABINGTON. MY STAR All that I know Of a certain star Is, it can throw (Like the angled...
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Lyric Poetry, Volume 2

Ernest Rhys - 1913 - 410 pages
...may have influenced it. There the imagination flashes out of a sombre mind, as in his Starlight— " For the bright firmament Shoots forth no flame So...silent, but is eloquent In speaking the Creator's name." Suckling is a poet who in this gallery of tame pigeons sits apart, with blood upon his gay feathers....
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The Expositor's Dictionary of Poetical Quotations

James Moffatt - 1913 - 252 pages
...SHAKESPEARE. Ps. xix. 1. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork. " My soul her wings doth spread And heavenward flies, The Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volume of the skies. In the bright firmament Shoots forth no flame So silent, but is eloquent In speaking...
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The Religious Poems of Richard Crashaw

Richard Crashaw - 1914 - 136 pages
...sea — 35 The Bridegroom with his bride ! LORD TENNYSON. WHEN I SURVEY THE BRIGHT CELESTIAL SPHERE ^ WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere ; So rich...hung, that Night Doth like an Ethiop bride appear : 86 ADDISON My soul her wings doth spread 5 And heavenward flies, The Almighty's mysteries to read...
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