Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday: Garden Delights which are Here Displayed in Every Truth and are Moreover Regarded as Emblems |
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Ahaz ancient armillary sphere astrolabe badge beautiful bloom brass called carved Castle century chapter charm Church circle clepsydra clock color compass cross Cross-dial curious decoration delight device dial-face dial-maker dialling draw Earl Emblem England Sun-dial English engraved exquisite facing figures flowers four German given Glamis Castle gnomon Henry VIII horizontal dial horologies Horologium hour lines inches in diameter inscription interest King latitude Lewis Evans light Little Burgundy London marked meridian Moss Roses Museum never noon-mark Northamptonshire pedestal Pennsylvania petals pillar Pillar-dial pink plant plate pocket-dial portable dials quadrant Queen Ring-dial Rosa Rosicrucians says Schissler Scotland Seat seen shadow shape shown silver stands stone sun-dial sun-dial mottoes symbol tell thing THOU thought tion trees Tulip Van Cortlandt Manor verses vertical dial White Rose Window-dial wonderful words Wroxton Abbey York zodiac
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Page 3 - Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years. And let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth ; and it was so.
Page 49 - AWAKE! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight : And Lo ! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
Page 113 - Would I were dead! if God's good will were so; For what is in this world but grief and woe? O God! methinks, it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish up the year, How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 381 - And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees ? And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees : nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
Page 280 - O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain! Somewhere, surely, afar, In the sounding labour-house vast Of being, is practised that strength, Zealous, beneficent, firm!
Page 315 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose : And here I prophesy ; — This brawl to-day Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 410 - Speed, die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow.
Page 381 - And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken ; 8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward.
Page 112 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 246 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...