 Or roll the planets through the boundless sky. 80 Some less refined, beneath the moon's pale light Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night, Or suck the mists in grosser air below, Or dip their pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests...  The Modern Language Review - Page 791912Full view - About this book
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1851 - 340 pages
...demons, hear ! . Ye know the spheres, and various tasks assigned By laws eternal to the aerial kind : Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask...whiten in the blaze of day ; Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky ; Some, less refined, beneath... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1851 - 348 pages
...demons, hear! Ye know the spheres, and various tasks assigned By laws eternal to the aerial kind : Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask...whiten in the blaze of day; Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky; Some, less refined, beneath... | |
 | Stephen Watkins Clark - 1851 - 204 pages
...And bitterly thought of the morrow." 22. " The nations gazed and wondered much, and praised." 23. " Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask and whiten in the blaze of day." 24. " Avarice and ambition are insatiable and restless." 25. " Hope and fear are the bane of human... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...Demons, hear ! Ye know the spheres, and various tasks assign'd By laws eternal to th' ae'real kind. Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask...whiten in the blaze of day; Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky ; Some, less refin'd, beneath... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1852 - 508 pages
...formulas compel them to reveal the mysteries of nature, experiment might be discarded as superfluous : Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask...whiten in the blaze of day. Some, guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky. Some, less refined, beneath... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1853 - 542 pages
...alternately as usual, one short and one long. The following couplet affords an example of each kind. Some in the fields of purest ether play, and bask and whiten In the blaze 61' day. It is a great imperfection in English verse, that it excludes the bulk of polysyllables, which... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 pages
...demons, hear ! Ye know the spheres, and various tasks assign'd By laws eternal to th' aerial kind. Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask...whiten in the blaze of day : Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky : Some, less refin'd, beneath... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...and demons hear ! Ye know the spheres, and various tasks assign'd By laws eternal to the aerial kind. Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask...whiten in the blaze of day : Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky : so Some, less refined, beneath... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...and demons hear ! Ye know the spheres, and various tasks assign'd By laws eternal to the aerial kind. Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask...whiten in the blaze of day : Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky : so Some, less refined, beneath... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...and Demons, hear! Ye know the spheres, and various tasks assign'd By laws eternal to the aerial kind. Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask...whiten in the blaze of day; Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky: Some, less refined, beneath... | |
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