 ... should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 447edited by - 1806Full view - About this book
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 508 pages
...refresh themselves with and dissolve herself ; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motious, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way,...doth run his unwearied course, should as it were, through a languishing faintness, begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from... | |
 | W. Spalding - English literature - 1867 - 446 pages
...have; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions,...prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant dotb run his unwearied course, should, as it were, through a languishing faintness, begin to stand... | |
 | Frederick Swartz Jewell - English language - 1867 - 276 pages
...have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads, should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions,...irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it may happen ; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course,... | |
 | English Association - English literature - 1924 - 156 pages
...volubility ' in Hooker is among the earliest in English, where the word has the primary Latin sense ; ' If celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions,...and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way sis it might happen ...' (EP I, iii. 2). Bacon uses 'voluble' in the Latin sense (Advancement of Learning,... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 198 pages
...'little world of man' as an individual and as a 'body politic' - should imitate the macrocosm: if the celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions...volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen . . . what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve? See we not plainly that... | |
 | English periodicals - 1924 - 978 pages
...if Celestial Spheres tiould forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn tiemselves as it might happen ; if the Prince of the Lights of Heaven, jvhich now as a Gyant doth run his unwearied course, should, as it were, by a languishing faintness... | |
 | Richard Hooker, John Keble, Richard William Church - 626 pages
...have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions,...heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course3, should as it were through a languishing faintncss begin to stand and to rest himself; if the... | |
 | George Every, Richard Harries, Bishop Kallistos Ware - Devotional calendars - 1984 - 276 pages
...have; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions,...doth run his unwearied course, should, as it were, through a languishing f'aintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from... | |
 | William C. Saslaw - Science - 1987 - 516 pages
...closer: If the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions,...turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prime of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were... | |
 | Anne Drury Hall - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 217 pages
...selfe: if celestiall spheres should forget their wonted motions and by irregular volubilitie, turne themselves any way as it might happen: if the prince of the lightes of heaven which now as a Giant doth runne his unwearied course, should as it were through a... | |
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