 | Edward Young - 1813 - 324 pages
...So distant (says the sage) 'twere not absurd To doubt if beams, set out at Nature's hirth, Are yef arriv'd at this so foreign world, Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever. Who can satiate sight In such a scene ? in... | |
 | Edward Young - 1813 - 380 pages
...distant (says the sage) 'twere not absurd To doubt, if beams, set out at nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever : who can satiate sight In such a scene ? in... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 468 pages
...arriv'd in sight of mortal things. Charles. Was it to this author that Dr. Young alludes in these li nes? How distant some of the nocturnal suns ! So distant,...probably referred to Huygens, an eminent, astronomer, who thew out the idea before Akenside was born. James. And you say the particles of light move in all directions.... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 680 pages
...and having an infinite space to exert itself in ; so that our imagination can set no bounds to it. How distant some of the nocturnal suns! So distant,...world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. Yorse. Charles. "What can be the use oi these fixed stars ? — not to enlighten the earth, for a single... | |
 | Edward Young - 1815 - 332 pages
...where men, and angels, meet, Eat the same manna, mingle earth, and heaven. How distant some of these nocturnal suns ! So distant (says the sage) 'twere...world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever : who can satiate sight In such a scene 1 In... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 388 pages
...So distant, says the sage, 'twece not absurd Gg To <loubt, if beams set out at Nature's birth, *re yet arriv'd at this so foreign world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. Youse. Charles. What can be the use of these fixed stars ? — not to enlighten the earth, for a single... | |
 | Edward Young - 1816 - 390 pages
...distant some of these nocturnal Suns I So distant (says the sage)* 'twere not absurd • Ilugenitu. To doubt, if beams, set out at Nature's birth, Are...world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever; Who can satiate sight In such a scene ? in... | |
 | Edward Young - 1816 - 284 pages
...distant, says the sage,* 'twere not absurd To doubt, if beams, set out at nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever : who can satiate sight la such a scent I in... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 430 pages
...distant says the sage, 'twere not absurd To doubt, if beams, set out at Nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever. Who can satiate sight In such a scene, in... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1817 - 348 pages
...distant, says the sage, 'twere not absurd To doubt, if beams, set out at Nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world ; ^ Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye of awe and, wonder let me roll, And roll for ever. Who can satiate sight In such a scene, in... | |
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How distant some of these nocturnal suns ! So distant (says the sage) 'twere not absurd To doubt, if beams, set out at nature's birth, Are yet arriv'd at this so foreign world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. 
