 | Henry David Thoreau - 1803 - 492 pages
...day overspread with the veil of night for the same reason as the cages of birds are darkened, viz.: that we may the more readily apprehend the higher...into smoke and mist stand about us in the night as light and flames; even as the column which fluctuates above the crater of Vesuvius, in the daytime... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1839 - 374 pages
...The Voice of the Wind.] * " Among the many congenial ideas she found in the writ, ings of Richter, the following passage relating to Night was singularly...of cloud, but by night a pillar of fire.'" f " Oh ! many a voice is thine, thou Wind ! full many a voice is thine, From every scene thy wing o'ersweeps,... | |
 | Harriet Mary Browne Owen - 1839 - 312 pages
...Quarterly Review for June, 1830. * "Among the many congenial ideas she found in the writings of Richter, the following passage relating to Night was singularly...which fluctuates above the crater of Vesuvius, in the day time appears a pillar of cloud, but by night a pillar of fire.' " The sight and sound of the sea... | |
 | Miss Browne - 1839 - 314 pages
...lights and flames, even as the column which fluctuates above the crater of Vesuvius, in the day time appears a pillar of cloud, but by night a pillar of fire.' " The sight and sound of the sea were always connected in her mind with melancholy associations ; with... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1840 - 378 pages
...Quarterly Review for June, 1830. 1 "Among the many congenial ideas she found in the writings of Richter, the following passage relating to Night was singularly...which fluctuates above the crater of Vesuvius, in the day time appears a pillar of cloud, but by night a pillar of fire.' " The sight and sound of the sea... | |
 | Harriet Mary Browne - 1840 - 302 pages
...Quarterly Review for June, 1830. '"Among the many congenial ideas she found in the writings of Richter, the following passage relating to Night was singularly...which fluctuates above the crater of Vesuvius, in the day time appears a pillar of cloud, but by night a pillar of fire.' " • The sight and sound of the... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 392 pages
...Quarterly Review for June, 1830. * "Among the many congenial ideas she found in the writings of Richter, the following passage relating to Night was singularly...which fluctuates above the crater of Vesuvius, in the day time appears a pillar of cloud, but by night a pillar of fire.' " The sight and sound of the sea... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 368 pages
...Quarterly Review for June, 1830. 1 "Among the many congenial ideas she found in the writings of Richter, the following passage relating to Night was singularly...which fluctuates above the crater of Vesuvius, in the day time appears a pillar of cloud, but by night a pillar of fire.' " The sight and sound of the sea... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 pages
...day overspread with the veil оГ night, for the same reason that the cages of birds are darkened, so that we may the more readily apprehend the higher harmonies of thought in the hush and stillness of darkness. Ideas, which the day converts into smoke and mist, during the night stand about... | |
 | 1844 - 836 pages
...day overspread with the veil of night, for the same reason that the cages of birds are darkened, so that we may the more readily apprehend the higher harmonies of thought in the hush and stillness of darkness. Ideas, which the day converts into smoke and mist, during the night stand about... | |
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The earth is every day overspread with the veil of night for the same reason as the cages of birds are darkened — viz. that we may the more readily apprehend the higher harmonies of thought in the hush and quiet of darkness. Thoughts which day turns... 
