 | Edward Young - 1853 - 368 pages
...enormous weight ? Who bid brute matter's restive lump assume 1470 Asserting its indisputable right 1473 To dance, would form an universe of dust : Has matter...none ? Then whence these glorious forms And boundless flights, from shapeless, and reposed ? Has matter more than motion ? Has it thought, Judgment, and... | |
 | William Chambers - 1853 - 858 pages
...foreign to the smallest gra.n. Phot through vast masses of enormous weight? Who bad» brute matter1« restive lump assume Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly ? (las matter innate motion? then each atom, Asserting its indisputable right To dance, would lorm... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...nothing greater yet allow'd than man. Who motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot through vast masses of enormous weight ? Who bid brute matter's restive...Asserting its indisputable right To dance, would form a universe of dust. Has matter none ? then whence these glorious forms And boundless flights, from... | |
 | 1888 - 862 pages
...nothing greater yet allow'd than man, Who motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot through vast masses of enormous weight? Who bid brute matter's restive...assume Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly? II us matter innate motion? Then each atom, Asserting its indisputable right To dance, would form an... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1854 - 184 pages
...that created them " in the beginning."* " He hangeth the earth on nothing." — Bible. Twas He — " Who bid brute matter's restive lump assume Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly." — Young. * The Earth :e not a perfect sphere, but an oblate spheroid, an orauge-shaped ball, flattened... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 520 pages
...nothing greater yet allow'd, than man. Who, motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot thro' vast masses of enormous weight ? Who bid brute matter's restive...? Then whence these glorious forms, And boundless flights, from shapeless, and reposed?" Contrast this with Tennyson's poem, certainly one of the noblest... | |
 | P. C. H. - 1856 - 84 pages
...greater yet allowed by man. Who motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot through vast masses-of enormous weight ? Who bid brute matter's restive lump...? then whence these glorious forms, And boundless nights, from shapeless and repos'd ? • Has matter more than motion ? Has it thought, Judgment, and... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...greater yet allow'd than man. — AVho motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot through vast masses of enormous weight? Who bid brute matter's restive...dance, would form an universe of dust : Has matter none ? Than whence these glorious forms And boundless nights, from shapeless, and repos'd? Has matter more... | |
 | Edward Young - 1856 - 536 pages
...his Philosophy of the Human Mind, vol. iii. 434-6. Who bid brute matter's restive lump assume 1470 Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly ? Has...Has matter none ? Then whence these glorious forms 1475 And boundless flights, from shapeless, and reposed ? Has matter more than motion ? Has it thought,... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...greater, yet allowed than man. — Who motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot through vast masses of enormous weight ? Who bid brute matter's restive lump assume Such various forms, and gave it wiugs to fly 1 Has matter innate motion ? Then each atom, Asserting its indisputable right To dance,... | |
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Shot through vast masses of enormous weight ? Who bid brute matter's restive lump assume Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly ? Has matter innate motion ? then each atom, Asserting its indisputable right To dance, would form an universe of dust... 
