 TO THE RAINBOW. TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art — Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and...  The Practical Teacher - Página 481883Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - 606 páginas
...author of the Pleasures of Hope has expressed a similar sentiment in his celebrated Ode to the Rainbow: When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws. Both of these writers are wrong in this particular, the first more especially so. No doubt the prose... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...To teach me what thou art ; — Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight, Betwixt the earth and heaven....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 withdraws, What... | |
 | 1847 - 396 páginas
...thinking it true, that he alludes to it in a beautiful poem of his, caljed the " Rainbow." He says — . " Can all that optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow !" You may have observed, Mary, that the rainbow is never to be seen on... | |
 | 1846 - 730 páginas
...philosophy To teach me what thou art — Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight, Betwixt the earth and heaven....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 withdraws, What... | |
 | 1846 - 436 páginas
...thou art. 242 TO THE RAINBOW. Still seem as to my childhood's sight, — A midway station given, For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven....Optics 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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 páginas
...childhood's sight, A midway station given, For happy spirits to alight, Betwixt the earth and heaven. 3. Can all that optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamed of gems and gold, Hid in thy radiant bow ? 4. When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 páginas
...philosophy To teach me what thou art. Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven....form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow 1 When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil withdraws, What... | |
 | Garland - 1847 - 104 páginas
...childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. all that optics teach unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamed of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? Where Science from creation's face Enchfrhtment's... | |
 | Stephen W. q (Stephen Watkins) Clark - 1847 - 242 páginas
...the Subject or Object of an Auxiliary Sentence, it should be placed next its Antecedent. EXAMPLEs. " Can all THAT optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so." •' The grave, THAT never spoke before Hath found, at length, a tongue to chide." Hom.—To this rule... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1848 - 652 páginas
...their original simplicity, are as religious in their tendency as they are beautiful in their character. When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws I And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of... | |
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