 Still seem as to my childhood's sight A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. Can all that optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? When Science...  The British Critic: A New Review - 547. oldalSzerkesztette: - 1823Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Charles Mackay - 1850 - 260 oldal
...author of the Pleasures of Hope expressed a similar sentiment in his celebrated Ode to the Rainbow — " When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...visions yield their place To cold material laws.'' Both of these writers seem to be wrong in this particular, the first more especially so. No doubt the... | |
 | Henry Webster Parker - 1850 - 254 oldal
...would have been a waste of breath, to answer such a man in any other words than those of Campbell— " When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...visions yield their place, To cold material laws." MOULTING OF MIND. In all the forms of nature, we see change, progress, transition. The earth itself... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1851 - 348 oldal
...people in his temple—bound together by the name and presence of God as by a chain of living fire, " When science from creation's face, Enchantment's veil...visions yield their place To cold material laws." True, but not merely lovely but dreadful visions recede before the dawn of science; while the rainbow... | |
 | Salem Town - 1851 - 372 oldal
...teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamed of gems and gold, Hid in thy radiant brow? 4. When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold materfal laws ! • 5. And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams 6. When o'er the green undeluged earth,... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 oldal
...For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. Can all that optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold, Hid in thy radiant bow 1 When science from Creation's face, Enchantment's veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their... | |
 | Benjamin Moran - 1853 - 446 oldal
...my Sunday School days the story of the Shepherd of Salisbury Plain. Campbell somewhere says: — " When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...visions yield their place To cold material laws!" And the sentiment applies to other things not scientific; for how much do those objects suffer from contact... | |
 | John Drew - 1853 - 386 oldal
...feeling diminished by the increase of scientific knowledge. The poet in some cases might truly say, " When science from creation's face Enchantment's veil...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws !" But his words will not apply to the discoveries of asB tronomy : these afford ample scope for the... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 oldal
...world no more, So, by the blood which Christ has shed, He will our souls restore. George Gascoignc. When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...cold material laws! And yet, fair bow, no fabling beams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. When... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 396 oldal
...the earth and heaven. Can all that Optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamed of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? When Science...veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place And yet, Mr bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams... | |
 | 1854 - 500 oldal
...childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. When science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws !' Not that an adherence to the English version of the passage in Job is mere prejudice or fancy —... | |
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