The eternal regions: lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amaranth, and gold; Immortal amaranth, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began... The North American Review - Page 506edited by - 1840Full view - About this book
| Geography - 1867 - 964 pages
...filled The eternal regions ; — lowly reverent. Towards either throne they bow ; and to the ground, With solemn adoration, down they cast Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold. — Then crowned again, their golden harps they took, Harps ever tuned, — that, glittering by their... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...Hosannas fill'd Th' eternal regions : lowly reverent Tow'rds either throne they bow, and to the ground 350 With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold; Immortal amaranth ; a flow'r which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom ; but... | |
| Elizabeth Kent - Botany - 1823 - 498 pages
...Amaranth, when speaking of the multitude of angels assembled before the Deity: • " to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amaranth and gold ; Immortal amaranth, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom, but... | |
| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...Amaranth, when speaking of the multitude of angels assembled before the Deity:— • To the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with Amaranth and gold; Immortal Amaranth, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom, but soon... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...hosannas filled The eternal regions: lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amaranth, and gold; Immortal amaranth, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon... | |
| John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...hosannas fill'd Th' eternal regions. Lowly re\srent Towards either throne they how, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold ; Immortal amaranth ! a flower which once i Ji Paradise, fast hy tho tree of life, Began to hloom ;... | |
| Henry Phillips - Floriculture - 1829 - 442 pages
...forming the diadem of angels, and the plant itself seems immortalized by the power of his majestic pen : With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with Amaranth and gold ; Immortal Amaranth, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom, but... | |
| Frederic Shoberl - Flower language - 1835 - 406 pages
...made the emblem of immortality. It is mentioned by Milton as forming the diadem of the angels : — With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold — Immortal Amaranth, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom, but... | |
| Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...of the poets. And first Milton makes the angels lay down their crowns of amaranths. " To the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amaranth and gold : Immortal amaranth ! a flower which once In paradise fast by the tree of life Began to bloom, but... | |
| Catharine Harbeson Waterman - Flower language - 1839 - 284 pages
...description of the court of heaven, mentions the amaranth as being inwoven in the diadems of angels — With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold; Immortal amaranth, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon... | |
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