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" Meantime, refracted from yon eastern cloud, Bestriding earth, the grand ethereal bow Shoots up immense; and every hue unfolds, In fair proportion, running from the red To where the violet fades into the sky. "
Scientific Dialogues: Intended for the Instruction and Entertainment of ... - Page 166
by Jeremiah Joyce - 1809
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The English Reading Book in Verse: Adapted to Domestic and to School Education

William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 pages
...from the vales, Whence, blending all, the sweeten'd zephyr springs. THE RAINBOW. MEANTIME refracted from yon eastern cloud, Bestriding earth, the grand...fair proportion, running from the red To where the violet fades into the sky. Here, awful, Newton, the dissolving clouds Form, fronting to the sun, thy...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 43

British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...sweeten'd zephyr springs. Meantime, refracted from yon eastern cloud, Bestriding earth, the grand etherial bow Shoots up immense ; and every hue unfolds, In fair proportion running from the red, To where the violet fades into the sky. Here, awful Newton, the dissolving clouds Form, fronting on the Sun, thy...
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The Seasons

James Thomson - 1822 - 174 pages
...sweeten'd zephyr springs. Meantime, refracted from yon eastern cloud, Bestriding earth, the grand etherial bow Shoots up immense ; and every hue unfolds, In fair proportion running from the red To where the violet fades into the sky. Here, awful Newton, the dissolving clouds Form, fronting on the sun, thy...
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The Monitor, Volume 1

1823 - 438 pages
...NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. THE RAINBOW, -Reflected from yon eastern cleu$ Bestriding earth, the grand etherial bow Shoots up immense .' and every hue unfolds^ In...vi'let fades into the sky. Here, awful Newton, the dissolvicg clouds Form, fronting on the sun, thy shadowy prism ; And, to the sage instructed eye, unfold...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...responsive from the vales, Whence, blending all, the swecten'd zephyr springe. Meantime, refracted from yon eastern cloud, Bestriding earth, the grand...fair proportion running from the red. To where the violet fades into the sky. Here, awful Newton, the dissolving clouds Form, fronting on the sun, thy...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...large effusion, o'er the freshened world. Thomson's Seasons — Spring. RAINBOW. Meantime refracted from yon eastern cloud, Bestriding earth, the grand...fair proportion running from the red, To where the violet fades into the sky. Ji«/. REAPERS. Soon as the morning trembles o'er the sky, And, unperceiv'd,...
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Of optics, magnetism, electricity and galvanism

Jeremiah Joyce - 1825 - 354 pages
...a rainbow I Charles. Oh, yes, and very often there are two at the same time, one above the other j the lower one is by far the most brilliant. Tutor....from the red To where the vi'let fades into the sky. Fawful Newton, the dissolving' clouds D, fronting on the sun, thy show'ry prism ; Pto the sage-instructed...
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Le stagioni

James Thomson - 1826 - 438 pages
...zephyr springs. Meantime refracted from yon eastern cloud, Bestriding earth, the grand ethereal how Shoots up immense ; and every hue unfolds, In fair proportion, running from the red, To where the violet fades into the sky. Here, awful NEWTON! the dissolving clouds Form , fronting on the sun , thy...
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The Seasons, and Castle of Indolence: To which is Prefixed the Life of the ...

James Thomson - 1826 - 268 pages
...responsive from the vales, Whence, blending all, the sweeten'd zephyr springs. Meantime, refracted from yon eastern cloud, Bestriding earth, the grand ethereal bow Shoots up immense, and ev'ry- hue unfolds, In fair proportion running from the red, To where the violet fades into the sky....
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Conversations on Common Things: Or, Guide to Knowledge. With Questions. For ...

Dorothea Lynde Dix - 1828 - 304 pages
...may read Thomson's description of the rainbow ; here is the book and place. D. " Meantime, refracted from yon eastern cloud, Bestriding earth, the grand...and every hue unfolds ; In fair proportion running into red, To where the violet fades into the sky." Mother, the two last lines remind me of a passage...
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