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" 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 144
by William Cowper - 1806
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A Guide to English Composition

Ebenezer Coloham Brewer - English language - 1878 - 476 pages
...gaze Of ignorance, till then she overlooked, A ray of heavenly light gilding all forms Terrestial, in the vast and the minute ; The unambiguous footsteps...wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. Devotion ! daughter of astronomy ; An undevout astronomer is mad. True ; all things speak a God ; but...
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Fugitive poetry, 1600-1878, compiled and ed. by J.C. Hutchieson

J C Hutchieson - 1878 - 634 pages
...in the sun, Prompts with remembrance of a present God. COWPER. IN the vast, and the minute, we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God Who gives its...wing, And wheels His throne upon the ROLLING WORLDS. IBID. 156 TO THE SUN. OH, how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms, which Nature to her...
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Wonders and Beauties of the Year: Containing Poetical and Popular ...

Henry Gardiner Adams - Birds - 1878 - 364 pages
...Cowper should exclaim — Cabbage Butterfly. WINGED FLOWERS. $1 ' In the vast and the minute we see The unambiguous footsteps of the GOD, Who gives its...insect's wing, And wheels His throne upon the rolling worido* There is now a buzz, and a boom, and a flutter of gauzy or gaily painted wings on every side...
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The poetical works of William Cowper, ed. by W.M. Rossetti

William Cowper - 1879 - 688 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...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...
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The biblical museum. Old Testament, Volume 6

James Comper Gray - 1879 - 418 pages
...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.« 9—11. (9) be scattered, melt away, disperse. (10) unicorn, or buffalo, Ku. xxiii. 22." For the figure...
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The fatherhood of God

Robert Mitchell (pastor at Manchester.) - God - 1879 - 192 pages
...times to place force or law upon the throne of the universe is only wasted strength. The Almighty " Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds, " is not going to abdicate because of the tumult which a few books or lectures create. He did not lay...
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Suggestive Thoughts on Religious Subjects: A Dictionary of Quotations and ...

Religion - 1881 - 552 pages
...immortality, eternal life." Her. TJr. Allan. ODD— revealed In Creation. In the vast and the minute we see The unambiguous footsteps of the GOD Who gives its...wing, And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds. William Cooper. Wherefore doubt that He who makes the smallest bird His care, And tempers to the new-shorn...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...a superior pow'r to nature. P. Le Tourncur, Athe'st's Tragsdy, Tn the vast, and the minute, we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God Who gives its...wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. Cowper, Task, v. 511. Thou dread souree, Prime, self-existing cause and end of all That iu the scale...
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The Bible Christian magazine, a continuation of the Arminian magazine

Bible Christians - 1882 - 606 pages
...with the all of space, His Now coeval with the all of time."f " In the vast and in the minute we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God Who gives its...wing, And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds." — Cowper. " The power with which all objects teem Invests each atom with a force supreme ; Directs...
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Cyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities of Nature and Art, Science and ...

John Platts - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1882 - 558 pages
...RESPECTING INSECTS. (Continued.) In the vast, and the minute, we *f,t TV unambiguous footsteps of a God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling world*. Cawpn THE APHIS. THIS is an insect which has engaged the attention of naturalists for various...
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