 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 Seiten
...spheres, To soothe their goddess ? 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... | |
 | 1840 - 520 Seiten
...quickly resumes her lengthened sway. . O majestic Night ! Nature's great ancestor ! Day's elder-born ! And fated to survive the transient sun ! By mortals...throughout, Voluminously pour thy pompous train." The MOON changes on the 2d, at eight minutes past four in the afternoon : she sets on the 5th at five... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 Seiten
...FAVOURABLE TO VIRTUE AND MEDITATION. Young. 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. Night is fair Virtue's immemorial friend. The conscious moon, through every distant age, Has held a... | |
 | 1863 - 1198 Seiten
...equalled since the days of Milton : — "O majestic Night! Nature's great ancestor ! Day's elder-bora, And fated to survive the transient sun ! By mortals and immortals seen with awe;" &c., &c. Another great master of blank verse, James Thomson, revered the genius of Milton. Perhaps... | |
 | Edward Young - 1824 - 356 Seiten
...the spheres, To sooth their goddess ? O majestic NIGHT ! Nature's great ancestor ! Day's elder-born ! And fated to survive the transient sun ! By mortals,...shape and shade, In ample folds of drapery divine, Thy'flowing mantle form ; and, heaven throughout, Voluminously pour thy pompous train. Thy gloomy grandeurs... | |
 | Edward Young - 1826 - 318 Seiten
...spheres To sooth their goddess ? O majestic Night ' Nature's great ancestor ! Day's elder-born ' 550 And fated to survive the transient Sun * By mortals...loom Wrought through varieties of shape and shade, 555 In ample folds of drapery divine, Thy flowing mantle form, and, heaven throughout, Voluminously... | |
 | Edward Young - 1826 - 284 Seiten
...elder-born ' 550 And fated to survive the transient Sun ' 'iy mortals and immortals seen with awo ! A starry crown thy raven brow adorns, An azure zone...loom Wrought through varieties of shape and shade, 555 In ample folds of drapery divine, Thy flowing mantle form, and, heaven throughout, Voluminously... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 Seiten
...majestic Night f Vature's great ancestor ! day's elder-born ! \nA fated to survive the transient sun! *y mortals, and immortals, seen with awe .' A starry...adorns. An azure zone, thy waist ; clouds, in Heaven's Foom Vrought through varieties of shape and shade, n ample folds of drapery divine, 'hy flowing mantle... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 Seiten
...? „ Where end ? or how steal music from the spheres To soothe their goddess ? О majestic Night ! re of n Persian împeror, sitting on a superficies, with his legs interwoven under him. pompons train : Thy gloomy grandeur? — Nature's most august, Inspiring aspect ! — claim a grateful... | |
 | 1832 - 498 Seiten
...was wanting to a complete occultation. 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. COMETARY ASTRONOMY. Magnitudes of Comets. The apparent magnitudes of comets not only depend on their... | |
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And fated to survive the transient sun! By mortals and immortals seen with awe! A starry crown thy raven brow adorns, An azure zone thy waist; clouds, in Heaven's loom Wrought through varieties of shape and shade, In ample folds of drapery divine, Thy... 
