 | Lux - 1874 - 398 pages
...sweetly but morbidly — "Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in Heaven : We know her woof, her...the haunted air and gnomed mine, Unweave a rainbow," &c., &c., &c. It was a poet of another order who said — ' ' How charming is divine philosophy ! Not... | |
 | Lux - 1874 - 386 pages
...sweetly but morbidly — " Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in Heaven : We know her woof, her...the haunted air and gnomed mine, Unweave a rainbow," &c., &c., &c. It was a poet of another order who said — " How charming is divine philosophy ! Not... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1874 - 622 pages
...mysterious and the romantic — " l)o not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven ; We know her woof, her...angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Kmpty the haunted air and gnomed mine." * The Heart of Africa : Thirty Years' Travels and Adventures... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1874 - 596 pages
...mysterious and the romantic — " Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven ; We know her woof, her texture ; she i* given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1875 - 966 pages
...bitter lines of Keats :— Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven; We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of human things, f * Phoedo, Symposium, Republic. f Lamia. It appears even in the far more catholic genius... | |
 | 1875 - 822 pages
...bitter lines of Keats : — Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven ; We know her woof, her texture ; she is given In the dull catalogue of human things. \ * Phado, Symposium, Republic. f Lamia. It appears even in the far more catholic genius... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1875 - 810 pages
...all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven ; \Ve know her woof, her texture ; she is given In the dull catalogue of human things, f * Pheedo, Symposium, Republic. f Lamia. It appears even in the far more catholic genius... | |
 | Marlborough College (Marlborough, England). Natural History Society - 1877 - 606 pages
...Campbell. trad again — " Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : We know her woof, her...and line, Empty the haunted air and gnomed mine." Keats. — Lamia. Lucretius himself, early in his poem, declares that his intention is to divest actions... | |
 | David Thomas - 1878 - 456 pages
...(Keats) has said, — " . . . Do not all charms fly, At the mere touch of cold Philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : We know her woof, her...angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line." But is there not an awful rainbow still? Is not the rainbow quite as awful to Science and Philosophy... | |
 | David Thomas - 1879 - 448 pages
...Physical science has a tendency to confine our observation to the exteriors of things. " There was an awful rainbow, once in heaven ; We know her woof,...common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings." Yet there is more in the rainbow, after all, than sense knowledge can discover or science fathom. No... | |
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Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : We know her woof, her texture ; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries... 
