 | Harriet A. Olcott - American fiction - 1856 - 466 pages
...Venus is looking to-night. Can you see her ' horns,' through your foolish tears ? Milton says : • 'Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light, And hence the morning planet gilds her horns.* In what constellation do you class yourself ? If I were... | |
 | James Hervey - 1856 - 396 pages
...* Judg. vi. 23. f Jer- xxiii. 6. J 1 Cor. i. 30. Alluding to those truly poetical lines in Milton : Hither, as to their fountain other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light. to withdraw till the more refulgent partner of her sway renders her presence unnecessary. In a word,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...exaggerated. The national intellect is continually recurring to them for renovation and increase of power : " As to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light." They are a perpetual preservative against false teste and false notions. Their great author is the... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 pages
...to receive And drink the liquid light; firm to retain Her gather'd beams, 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,... | |
 | Thomas Kelly Cheyne - Bible - 1892 - 416 pages
...holy men, thfc saints and doctors and poets who came after them, could not help borrowing from them. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing in their golden urns draw light. but revive the tradition of the first great Christian thinkers when he dignified the noblest classic... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 406 pages
...receive And drink the liquid light, firm to retain Her gathered beams, — 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,... | |
 | Thomas Kelly Cheyne - Bible - 1892 - 418 pages
...holy men, the saints and doctors and poets who came after them, could not help borrowing from them. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing in their golden urns draw li but revive the tradition of the first great Christian thinkers when he dignified the noblest classic... | |
 | Ernest Ingersoll - Washington (D.C.) - 1893 - 314 pages
...knowledge, and belief of truth is the sovereign good of human nature.— Bacon. Above the figure of Poetry, Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw \\ght.-Milton. Above the figure of Law, Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her voice... | |
 | W. T. B. Martin, T. E. S. T. - Instinct - 1894 - 536 pages
...glittering gold." * '. " King John," act iii. sc. 1. Fetishism — Evolution Defined. 309 And Milton : — " Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light." * How grandly silent is his reign — how free from confusion! To the ignorant, his power might well... | |
 | James Edward Walker - Astronomy - 1894 - 240 pages
...to receive And drink the liquid light ; firm to retain Her gather'd beams, 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.'29 The atmosphere of Venus, from the gradually deepening... | |
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In the sun's orb, made porous to receive And drink the liquid light ; firm to retain Her gather'd beams, great palace now of light. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light... 
