 | 1815 - 560 pages
...head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. Here are the planets rolling round the moon; here is the pole gilt and glowing with stars; here are... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Astronomy - 1838 - 426 pages
...; Then shine the vales ; the rocks in prospect rise ; A flood of glory bursts from all the skies. % The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light." Without the light of the moon, the inhabitants of thepolaf regions would be for weeks and months immersed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthns with their rays: The long reflections... | |
 | 536 pages
...head ; T hen shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. POPE. WHEN the sacred historian speaks of the luminaries of our system, or rather of our earth, as... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in. prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud II ion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1841 - 486 pages
...head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light." Pope's Homer. 16 LA r orbit would make the earth appear to revolve from west to east ; and as these... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks In prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.— I'OI-E. As when around the clear bright moon, the stars Shine in full splendour, and the winds are... | |
 | James Mursell Phillippo - Jamaica - 1843 - 548 pages
...head : Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light." With proper attention to dress and diet, with temperance in the use of food, fruit, and wholesome beverage... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pages
...head ; Thin shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and Ыевз the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimm'ring Xanthus... | |
 | Edward Jesse - Country life - 1844 - 456 pages
...head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise ; A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. A huge Oak, dry and dead Still clad with reliques of its trophies old, Lifting to heaven its aged,... | |
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O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight. Eye the blue vault, and... 
