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" Still seem as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given, For happy spirits to alight . Betwixt the earth and heaven.  "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 129
1825
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The Celtic Magazine, Volume 2

Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain - 1877 - 502 pages
...hands of the Most High have bended it ; and the poet says with Campbell — Triumphal arch that fills the sky "When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud philosophy To tell me what thou art. The lightning is not merely an electric discharge ; it is a barbed arrow of...
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Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry

Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...his cage with joyous screech, Dropped down, and died-! TO THE RAINBOW. Triumphal arch, that flll'st orious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars ; thy m mo what thon art; Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits...
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Science in Song, Or, Nature in Numbers

William Carey Richards - 1885 - 152 pages
...be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die." And Campbell, in his " Ode to the Rainbow," says, — " Triumphal arch that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To tell me what thou art ; Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given, For happy spirits...
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 pages
...away. ihid. 1 When the stormy winds do hlow. — MAETYN PABEEE: Ye Gentlemen of Enr/lnail. Trinmphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not prond Philosophy To teach me what thon art. TO the Eainhow. A stoic of the woods, — a man withont...
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 pages
...ear melted away. ibid. i When the stormy winds do blow. — MARTYH PARKER: Ye Gentlemen of England. Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach rne what thou art. TO the A stoic of the woods, — a man without a tear. Gertrude of Wyoming. Part...
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Sunday: Reading for the Young

1873 - 846 pages
...addresses the rainbow in a poem from which we choose soatf verses : — ' Triumphal arch, that fill's! the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud philosophy To teach me what tliou art. When o'er the green, nndelnged earth. Heaven's covenant thou didst shine. How came the world's...
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The Cottager in Town and Country, Issue 1

1861 - 520 pages
...that time forth the bond of love and duty was never broken between them. THE RAINBOW. that fill'st tho sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud philosophy To teach mo what thou art. Still scon as to my childhood's sight A midway station given, For happy spirits to...
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The Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 pages
...the whole precipitated mass Unbroken floods and solid torrents pour. Tht Seasons : Summer. THOMSON. Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky, When storms prepare to part ; I a«k not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art. T. CAMPBELL. TREES. One impulse from a vernal...
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Coloured Thinking and Other Studies in Science and Literature

David Fraser Fraser-Harris - 1928 - 288 pages
...illustrate his remarks. Thomas Campbell, however, would seem to have agreed with Keats, for he said — " Triumphal arch that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud philosophy To tell me what thou art." But not alone is a certain kind of poet in opposition to science, the person...
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The Quarterly Christian Spectator, Volume 3

1821 - 684 pages
...that liberty wherewith God hath made me free?" EUBULUS. Junel5, 1821. To the Rainbow. By T. CAMPRELL. appear, ye shall them art. Still seem as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight,...
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