 A ray of heavenly light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute; The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds.  Poems - Page 144by William Cowper - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1833 - 300 pages
...vices driven from the regions of light into darkncs« and punishment. mark, with wondering eyes, ' The unambiguous footsteps of the God Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, Ami wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds.' As an insect well known to all, and remarkable for... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pages
...all things what, with stupid gaze Of ignorance, till then she overlook'd, A ray of heavenly light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the...often holds With those fair ministers of light to man, 2 B That fill the skies nightly with silent pomp, Sweet conference. Inquires what strains were they... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...in all things, what with stupid gaze Of ignorance till then she overlooked, A ray of heavenly light gilding all forms Terrestrial, in the vast and the...wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. ALFRED S DISTRIBUTION OF TIME. THE most effectual expedient employed by Alfredibr the encouragement... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1835 - 574 pages
...on every object on which it gazes, — a light " That gilds all forms Terrestrial, in tho vnst nnd the minute ; The unambiguous footsteps of the God,...wing, And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds."* That the Deity, in this sense, as the Creator of the world, and wilier of all those great ends, which... | |
 | Joseph Martin, William Henry Brockenbrough - Virginia - 1835 - 644 pages
...maintained their In the vast and the minute we see The unambitious footsteps of the God Who gives the lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling world. The relative position of the spectator, at this time, and place, in regard to the bridge and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 406 pages
...all things what, with stupid gaze Of ignorance, till then she overlook'd, A ray of heavenly light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the...nightly with silent pomp, Sweet conference. Inquires what strains were they With which Heaven rang, when every star, in haste To gratulate the new-created... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1836 - 206 pages
...gilding ail forms Terrestrial in the vast and the mmute; The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who givt-3 its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne...holds With those fair ministers of light to man, That till the skies nightly with silent pomp, ' Sweet conference. Inquires what strains were they With which... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 404 pages
...wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. Much conversant with heaven, she often holds 815 With those fair ministers of light to man That fill...the skies nightly with silent pomp, Sweet conference ; enquires what strains were they With which heaven rang, when every star, in haste To gratulate the... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1836 - 430 pages
...meets his eye, be it vast or minute, simple or complex, suggests the most exalted conceptions of Him " Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds." All our feelings' and intellectual powers should be devoted to the glory of God, their Author and their... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...stupid gaze27 Of ignorance till then she overlook'd, A ray of heavenly light gilding all forms 810 Terrestrial, in the vast and the minute The unambiguous footsteps of the God OT See nature in some partial narrow shape, And let the Author of the whole escape. Dunciad, iv. 455.... | |
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