 | Christianity - 1844 - 634 pages
...space, Sinks half-way o'er it like a wearied bird : It is the mirror of the stars, where all Their hosts within the concave firmament, Gay marching to the...forth, Between grey parallel and leaden breadths, A hcit of hues that stripes thee many a league, Flushed like the rainbow, or the ringdove's neck, And... | |
 | 1831 - 626 pages
...spare Sinks half-way o'er it like a wearied bird. It is the mirror of the stars, where all Their hosts within the concave firmament, Gay marching to the...breadths, A belt of hues that stripes thee many a league, Flush'd like the rainbow, or the ringdove's neck, And giving to the glancing sea-bird's wing The semblance... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1836 - 572 pages
...Sinks half-way o'er it, like a wearied bird : It is the mirror of the stars, where all Their hosts within the concave firmament, Gay marching to the music of the spheres, Can see themselves at once. ' As we have censured this writer for not sufficiently attending to things themselves, but being too... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Bookbinding - 1837 - 328 pages
...space, Sinks half-way o'er it like a wearied bird : It is the mirror of the stars, where all Their hosts within the concave firmament, Gay marching to the...breadths, A belt of hues that stripes thee many a league, Flushed like the rainbow, or the ringdove's neck, And giving to the glancing sea-bird's wing The semblance... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Bookbinding - 1837 - 360 pages
...Sinks half- way o'er it like a wearied bird : It is the mirror of the stars, where all Their hosts within the concave firmament, Gay marching to the...thine. How vividly this moment brightens forth, Between gray parallel and leaden breadths, A belt of hues that stripes thee many a league, Flush'd like the... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...space, Sinks halfway o'er it, like a wearied bird. It is the mirror of the stars, where all Their hosts within the concave firmament, Gay marching to the music of the spheres, Can see themselves at once. CAMPBELL. THE restless inanity of minds, which can neither use, retain, nor even receive any of the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1837 - 332 pages
...space, Sinks half-way o'er it like a wearied bird : It is the mirror of the stars, where all Their hosts within the concave firmament, Gay marching to the music of the spheres, Nor on the stage Of rural landscape are there lights and shades Of more harmonious dance and play than... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...space, Sinks half-way o'er it like a wearied bird : It is the mirror of the stars, where all Their hosts within the concave firmament, Gay marching to the...breadths, A belt of hues that stripes thee many a league, Flushed like the rainbow, or the ringdove's neck, And giving to the glancing sea-bird's wing The semblance... | |
 | 1836 - 564 pages
...Sinks half-way o'er it, like a wearied bird : It is the mirror of the stars, where all Their hosts within the concave firmament, Gay marching to the music of the spheres, Can see themselves at once. ' As we have censured this writer for not sufficiently attending to things themselves, but being too... | |
 | Baptists - 1840 - 316 pages
...space. Sinks halfway o'er it, like a wearied bird : It is the mirror of the stars, where all Their hosts within the concave firmament, Gay marching to the music of the spheres. Can see themselves at once." The south wind, that sighs so solemnly through the tops of the casaurinas, lashes the distant waters... | |
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Earth has not a plain So boundless or so beautiful as thine ; The eagle's vision cannot take it in : The lightning's wing, too weak to sweep its space, Sinks half-way o'er it like a wearied bird : It is the mirror of the stars, where all Their hosts within... 
