 Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting...  Littell's Living Age - Page 2881854Full view - About this book
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...educated in Spain, but wrote English very imperfectly until he was turned of thirty. TO NIGHT. Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report...lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue 1 Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame Hesperus with... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 288 pages
...sonnet which the poet pronounces " the finest and most grandly-conceived in our language." 2 Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee, from report...lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? 3 Yet, 'neath a current of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1852 - 456 pages
...impatient for the sky, and wrestle* with the earthly worm that folds us in. . " Mysterious Night ! when onr first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard...Hesperus with the host of heaven came , And lo, Creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun ?... | |
 | James Flint - 1852 - 324 pages
...and unimagined happiness, I subjoin a well-known sonnet of the late Joseph Blanco White. " Mysterious night! when our first parent knew Thee from report...frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'Heath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the... | |
 | William Mountford - 1852 - 542 pages
...but only to know the more blessedly that God is the Father of us spirits. CHAPTER XIII. Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee from report...lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue 7 Yet, 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting name, Hesperus... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 588 pages
...heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue 1 Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in...setting flame Hesperus with the host of Heaven came And, lot creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...let me use the language of a great mind : * "Mysterious Night.! when oar first parent knew Thee by report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble...lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue 1 Yet 'ueath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...let me use the language of a great mind : * "Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee by report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble...this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and bine ! Yet 'neath a enrtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...let me use the language of a great mind : * " Mysterious Night ! when oar first parent knew Thee by report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious eanopy of light and blue 1 Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 580 pages
...heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue 7 Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting name , Hesperus with the host of Heaven came And, lo ! creation widened in man's view. Who could have... | |
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