 That day, as other solemn days, they spent In song and dance about the sacred hill ; Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere Of planets, and of fix'd, in all her wheels Resembles nearest, mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most,...  Mechanism of the Heavens - Page xvby Mary Somerville - 1831 - 621 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1844 - 454 pages
...still, still so, and own No other function " — and in the " Paradise Lost," " Mystical dance ! — -Mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular, Then most, when most irregular they seem." Der Philosophische Egoist, p. 110. Something of the same thought with that of this poem occurs in Faust:... | |
 | Samuel Noble - 1845 - 564 pages
...and dance ubout the sacred hill ; Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere Of planets, and of 6xed, in all her wheels, Resembles nearest ; mazes intricate,...yet regular Then most, when most irregular they seem : And in their motions, Harmony divine Bo smooths her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted."•... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pages
...night, summer and winter, will continue their vicissitudes while the system endures, or is undisturbed by foreign causes. " Yonder starry sphere Of planets...stability of our system was established by La Grange : " a discovery," says Professor Playfair, " that must render the name forever memorable in science,... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pages
...night, summer and winter, will continue their vicissitudes while the system endures, or is undisturbed by foreign causes. " Yonder starry sphere . ' Of planets...of fix'd, in all her wheels Resembles nearest mazes iatricate, Ecceatric, iatervolved, yet regular, Then most, when most irregular they seem." The stability... | |
 | 1846 - 698 pages
...song and dance about the sacred hill ; Mystical dance, which yonder sphere, Of planets and of fixed, in all her wheels, Resembles nearest, mazes intricate. Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular The most when most irregular they seem ; And in their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...they spent In song and dance, about the sacred hill ; Mystical dance, which yonder starty sphere 620 Of planets and of fix'd, in all her wheels, Resembles...regular, Then most, when most irregular they seem ; And, in their motions, harmony divine 625 So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 366 pages
...dance about the sacred hill ; Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere, Of planets and of fixed, in all her wheels, Resembles nearest, mazes intricate. Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular The most when most irregular they seem ; And in their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 360 pages
...dance about the sacred hill ; Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere, Of planets and of fixed, in all her wheels, Resembles nearest, mazes intricate. Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular The most when most irregular they seem ; And in their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...they spent In song and dance about the sacred hill ; Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere 625 Of planets, and of fix'd, in all her wheels Resembles...yet regular Then most, when most irregular they seem ; And in their motions harmony divine 630 (For we have also our evening and our morn, We ours for change... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...day, as other solemn days, they spent In song and dance, about the sacred hill ; Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere Of planets and of fix'd, in all her wheels, Resembles nearest, mazes intricate, Eccentrie, intervolved, yet regular, Then most, when most irregular they seem ; And, in their motions,... | |
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