TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art — Still seem as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. The American Whig Review - Page 1861846Full view - About this book
| Alexander Bain - English language - 1887 - 298 pages
...scope for the exhibition of poetic qualities. Triumphal arch that fill'st the sky, When storms prepare to part ! I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art. The two first lines contain an image of neutral sublimity, referring to one of the grandest objects... | |
| John Kennedy - English language - 1890 - 304 pages
...oriole.— Read. Is't not enough, thou hast suborn'd these women To accuse this worthy man.— Shakespeare. Can all that Optics teach, unfold Thy form to please...when I dreamt of gems and gold , Hid in thy radiant bowl— Campbell. (The Rainbow.) Nymph, in thy orizons Be all my sins remembered.— Shakespeare. Studies... | |
| John Kennedy - English language - 1890 - 314 pages
...surely Pi° greatness is a ripening,— nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.— Shakespeare. Still seem as to my childhood's sight A midway station...happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. — CampoeO. (Tim Itnmlxi.i ' Thou Fancy her magical pinions spread wide, And bade .the young dreamer... | |
| Rev. James Wells - Bible - 1891 - 302 pages
...covenant of love. As Campbell puts it— " Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art. And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams... | |
| Comparative linguistics - 1894 - 500 pages
...Ada Byron. London: C. Fleming, No. 26, Haymarket 1835. Das titelblatt enthält ausserdem das motto: „Can all that optics teach, unfold Thy form to please...I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow? Dies jetzt gewiss seltene schriftchen, welches der aufmerksamkeit Elze's ebenso entgangen zu sein scheint,... | |
| Sheldon and Company - English language - 1895 - 384 pages
...light Of other days around me. — MOORE. 13. Triumphal Arch that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art. — CAMPBELL. 14. I am monarch of all I survey, LESSON CX. THE MODES OF VERBS. 1. James writes a letter.... | |
| Mary Frances Hyde - English language - 1895 - 246 pages
...down and closed his eyes. — SOUTHEY. 9. Triumphant arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art. — CAMPBELL. 10. He that only rules by terror Doeth grievous wrong. — TENNYSON. n. We judge ourselves... | |
| Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...thou shall be my ruling star ? THE RAINBOW. TRIUMPHAL arch that fill'st the sky, When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud philosophy To teach me what...Betwixt the earth and heaven. Can all that optics teach, nnlbld Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamed of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant brow ? When... | |
| Ralston Health Club - Food - 1896 - 186 pages
...I. (SOCIAL DIVISION) THE SPAN OF LIFE. ^TRIUMPHAL arch, that flll'st the sky '&' When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art. Thomax Campbell. ' Let us make ourseloes members of a nei» and belter race."— SAa/iesbury. ["LWAYS... | |
| Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...sky. t. BYRON— Don Juan. Canto I. St. 122. Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare oth the greater glory dim the le j. CAMPBELL — To the Rainbow. Over her hung a canopy of state, Not of rich tissue, nor of spangled... | |
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