 | Thomas Chalmers - 1847 - 426 pages
...presence of that which poetry rejoices to seize upon. " Look thou abroad," says Akenside, " Look thou abroad through nature to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unbroken through the void immense; And sprak. O man, does this capacious scene, With half that kindling... | |
 | E. A. ANSLEY - 1849 - 288 pages
...his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies."—Psalm xviii. 6—11. "Look then abroad through nature, to the range Of...spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense, And speak, O man, does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception,... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1849 - 366 pages
...And sweep the furrowed lines of anxious thought away ! What viewless forms the .rEolian organs play Look then abroad through nature to the range Of planets,...spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense, And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1849 - 650 pages
...together, in the following beautiful pauage of Akenside'i Pleasures cf the Imagination: Look then abtoad through nature to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling, unshaken, thro' the void immense : And speak, O man! does this capacious scene, With half that kindling majesty... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1850 - 368 pages
...And sweep the furrowed lines of anxious thought away! What viewless forms the -d£olian organs play Look then abroad through nature to the range Of planets,....spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense, And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1850 - 654 pages
...compared together, in the following beautiful passage of Akeiiside'i Pleasures of the Imagination: Look then abroad through nature to the range Of planets,...suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling, unshaken, thro 1 the void immense ; And speak, 0 man! does this capacioun scene y With half that kindling majesty... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1851 - 196 pages
...Graces ; here enthroned, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy. Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets,...spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate The strong conception,... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...What viewless forms the jEolian organs play, And sweep the furrowed lines of anxious thought away ! Look then abroad through nature to the range Of planets,...spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense, And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1851 - 480 pages
...the cultivation of the qualities that constitute the perfection and the happiness of our nature. " Look, then, abroad through nature, to the range Of...spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense, And speak, 0 man ! does this capacious scene, With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1851 - 834 pages
...that we turn, even from the sublimest wonders of magnificence which the material universe exhibits. Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets,...spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man, does this capacious scene, With half that kindling majesty, dilate Thy strong conception,... | |
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a few of the constituents of the Physical Sublime which he has compared, in point of effect, with the powers both of the Physical and Moral Sublime combined together in their joint operation :— " Look then abroad through nature, to the range Of planets,... 
