| Albert Gallatin Mackey - 1912 - 508 Seiten
...to this debasing worship of darkness: "O majestic nightl Nature's great ancestor! day's elder borní And fated to survive the transient sun! By mortals and immortals seen with awe!" Freemasonry has restored darkness to its proper place as a state of preparation; the symbol of that... | |
| Albert Gallatin Mackey - 1916 - 504 Seiten
...to this debasing worship of darkness: "O majestic night! Nature's great ancestor! day's elder bom! And fated to survive the transient sun! By mortals and immortals seen with awe!" Freemasonry has restored darkness to its proper place as a state of preparation; the symbol of that... | |
| C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 322 Seiten
...ampler orbs, for new creations, there. ' O Majestic Night! Nature's great ancestor! Day's elder-born, And fated to survive the transient sun! By mortals...heaven throughout, Voluminously pour thy pompous train. * It is chiefly the vastness of the universe that strikes the poet with awe: What speak I more than... | |
| C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 334 Seiten
...ampler orbs, for new creations, there. * O Majestic Night! Nature's great ancestor! Day's elder-born, And fated to survive the transient sun! By mortals...heaven throughout, Voluminously pour thy pompous train. * It is chiefly the vastness of the universe that strikes the poet with awe: What speak I more than... | |
| Albert Adam Perdeck - 1928 - 124 Seiten
...the poem in the gth Night (551 ff.) : O majestic Night! Nature's great ancestor! Day's elder-born! And fated to survive the transient sun! By mortals,...heaven throughout. Voluminously pour thy pompous train. Thy gloomy grandeurs (nature's most august, Inspiring aspect), claim a grateful verse; And, like a... | |
| Albert Adam Perdeck - 1928 - 122 Seiten
...the poem in the 9th Night (551 ff.) : O majestic Night! Nature's great ancestor! Day's elder-born! And fated to survive the transient sun! By mortals,...divine, Thy flowing mantle form; and heaven throughout, 8o Thy gloomy grandeurs (nature's most august, Inspiring aspect), claim a grateful verse; And, like... | |
| 1893 - 688 Seiten
...the spheres To soothe their goddess ? O majestic night ! Nature's great ancestor ! day's eider-born) And fated to survive the transient sun ! By mortals...heaven throughout, Voluminously pour thy pompous train ; Thy gloomy grandeurs — nature's most august, Inspiring aspect ! — claim a grateful verse ; And,... | |
| Henry Davenport Northrup - 1888 - 790 Seiten
...majestic night ! Nature's great ancestor ! day's elder-born ! And fated to survive the transient sun I By mortals and immortals seen with awe ! A starry...heaven throughout, Voluminously pour thy pompous train ; Thy gloomy grandeurs — nature's most august, Inspiring aspect 1 — claim a grateful verse ; And,... | |
| Denison Olmsted - 1840 - 458 Seiten
...1833. LETTER XXVIII. FIXED STARS. ' O, majestic Night ' Nature's great ancestor ! Day's elder born And fated to survive the transient sun ! By mortals...crown thy raven brow adorns, An azure zone thy waist 5 clouds, in heaven's loom Wrought, through varieties of shape and shade, In ample folds of drapery... | |
| Sabbath harp - 1830 - 484 Seiten
...adieu ! EDMBITOK. O nmjfstic night ! Nature's great ancestor ! Day's elder-born ! And fated to survey the transient sun ! By mortals and immortals seen...brow adorns, An azure zone, thy waist ; clouds, in heav'n's loom Wrought through varieties of shape and shade, In ample folds of drapery divine, Thy flowing... | |
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