 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...Demons, hear ! Ye know the spheres, and various tasks assign'd By laws eternal to the aSrial 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...various tasks assign'd By law eternal to th' aerial kind : Some in the fields of purest aether pla}', And bask and 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... | |
 | Stephen Watkins Clark - 1860 - 324 pages
...forth, 20. ' Thy bounty shines in Autumn vmconfined, And spreads a common feast for all that live." 21. "Some in the fields of purest ether play And bask and whiten in the blaze of day." 82 " On thy fair bosom, waveless stream, The dipping paddle echoes far, And flashes in the moonlight... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...various taska assign'd By law's eternal to tlie ai-rial kind, feome in the fields of purest ether plaj And bask and 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 reSned, beneath... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 pages
...and 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 348 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1863 - 552 pages
...to their occupations. he described them in a very prosaic parody ou Pope's lines on the fairies : " 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 - 1863 - 108 pages
...— 20. Thy BOUNTY SHINES in autumn, uneonfined,* And SPREADS a eommon FEAST for all that live. 21. SOME in the fields of purest ether PLAY, And BASK and WHITEN in the blaze of day. 22. On thy fair bosom, waveless stream, The dipping PADDLE ECHOES far, And FLASHES in the moonlight... | |
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