| Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 Seiten
...awful pause ! prophetic of her end. O majestic Night ! Nature's great ancestor ! Day's elder-born ! 10 And fated to survive the transient sun ! By mortals...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, 16 Thy... | |
| 1832 - 424 Seiten
...melancholy scene ! Oh majestic night! Nature's great ancestor — day's elder born, And fated to survive Ibe transient sun By mortals and immortals seen with awe; A starry crown thy raven brow adorns. An azure lone thy waist. Clouds In heav'n's loom. Wronght throngh varieties of shape and shade, In ample folds... | |
| 1832 - 428 Seiten
...scene ! Oh majestic night! Nature's great ancestor — day's elder torn, And fated to survive ih« transient sun By mortals and immortals seen with awe; A starry crown n > taven brow adorns, An azure gone thy waist. Clouds In heavVs loom, Wrought through varieties of... | |
| Edward Young - 1834 - 370 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,...seen with awe ! A starry crown thy raven brow adorns, VOL. I. K An azure zone thy waist; clouds, in heaven's loom Wrought through varieties of shape and... | |
| Edward Young - 1839 - 300 Seiten
...remains?—Much ! much ! a mighty debt [thine; O majestic night! Nature's great ancestor! Day's elder born ! 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... | |
| Edward Young - 1839 - 324 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 and immortals seen with aive ! A starry crown thy raven brow adoms, An azure zone, thy waist ; clouds, in heav'n's loom Wrought... | |
| 1840 - 652 Seiten
...Mus. Bac. (Alto, 2 Tenors, and Bass.) 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. Stars teach as well as shine. At Nature's birth Thus their commission ran, — " Be kind to man." Where... | |
| Denison Olmsted - 1841 - 486 Seiten
...1833. LETTER XXVIII. FIXED STARS. 1 O, majestic Night ' Nature's great ancestor ! Day's elder born, And fated to survive the transient sun ! By mortals...seen with awe ! A starry crown thy raven brow adorns, • Aa azure zone thy waist ; clouds, in heaven's loom Wrought, through varieties of shape and shade,... | |
| Denison Olmsted - 1842 - 474 Seiten
...LETTER XXVIII. FIXED STARS. -" O, in, 1 11 . i ii- 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." — Young. SINCE the solar system is but one among a myriad of worlds which astronomy unfolds, it may... | |
| Scotland free church, gen. assembly - 1847 - 554 Seiten
...£30. ENGLISH LITERATURE AND GRAMMAR. О majestic night ! Nature's great ancestor ! Day's elder born ! And fated to survive the transient sun ! By mortals and immortals seen with awe ! A starry crown tliy raven brow adorns, An azure zone thy waist; clouds, in heaven's loom Wrought through varieties... | |
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