| Hannah More - English literature - 1827 - 598 pages
...whatever is calculated to inspire wonder, or communicate delight. Athens was the pure wellhead of poetry : Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light. It was the theatre ot arms, the cradle of the arts, the school of philosophy, and the parent of eloquence.... | |
| Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...to receive And drink the liquid light, firm to retain Her gather'd heams, great palace now of light. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light, And hence the morning planet gilds her horns ; By tincture or reflection they augment Their small peculiar,... | |
| John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...to receive And drink the liquid light, firm to retain HIT gather'd heams, great palace now of light. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light, And hence the morning planet gilds her horns, I !y tincture or reflection they augment Their small... | |
| Hannah More - English literature - 1830 - 530 pages
...is calculated to inspire wonder, or communicate delight. Athens was the pure well-head of poetry : " Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light." It was the theatre of arms, the cradle of the arts, the school of philosophy, and the parent of eloquence.... | |
| Hannah More - Children - 1830 - 524 pages
...is calculated to inspire wonder, or communicate delight. Athens was the pure well-head of poetry : " Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light." It was the theatre of arms, the cradle of the arts, the school of philosophy, and the parent of eloquence.... | |
| George Barrell Emerson - Women - 1831 - 46 pages
...borrowed only noble and pure thoughts from the ancients? They were nourished with the spirit of antiquity. Hither as to their fountain, other stars, Repairing, in their golden urns draw light. We boast, and not without reason, of our English literature as one of the purest of modern times. Yet... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...drink the liquid light ; firm to retain Her gather 'd beams, great palace now of light. Hither, aa to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light, 365 And hence the morning planet gilds her horns ; By tincture or reflection they augment Their small... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1832 - 330 pages
...borrowed only noble and pure thoughts from the ancients? They were nourished with the spirit of antiquity. Hither as to their fountain, other stars, Repairing, in their golden urns draw light. We boast, and not without reason, of our English literature as one of the purest of modern times. Yet... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1832 - 330 pages
...borrowed only noble and pure thoughts from the ancients? They were nourished with the spirit of antiquity. Hither as to their fountain, other stars, Repairing, in their golden urns draw light. We boast, and not without reason, of our English literature as one of the purest of modern times. Yet... | |
| John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune - Astronomers - 1832 - 314 pages
...this beautiful phenomenon to pass unnoticed. After describing the creation of the Sun, he adds: — « Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light, And hence the morning planet gilds her horns. Galileo also assured himself, at the same time, that... | |
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