 | 1807 - 552 pages
...patines of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims : Such harmony is in immortal souls. The introductory chapter contains an ingenious and eloquent, but rather too elaborate History of Man.... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1811 - 456 pages
...pattens of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold.st, But in Цз motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims: Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. Лм V. Scene I. Dr.... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1864 - 598 pages
...still higher to the angelic harmony of heaven : — " See, Jessica ! look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold ! There's not the smallest orb that thou beholdest But in its station like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins." Descending... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...gold ; There 's not the smallest orb which thou beBut in his motion like an angel sings, [hold'st, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims : Such harmony is in immortal souls; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. — Come, bo, and wake... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 pages
...nine-infolded spheres; so that " There's not the smallest orb which thou bchold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims: Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay, Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it." Poetry is the language... | |
 | University of Glasgow - College prose, English - 1836
...alludes, when he says, tc There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young.eyed cherubims, Such harmony is in immortal souls." That " silent spectacle," in the language of Wordsworth, " the gleam, the shadow, and the peace supreme,"... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...Venice, act v. sc. 1. ' There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims : Such harmony is in immortal sounds ! But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it.' Shakesp.... | |
 | 1833 - 984 pages
...patines of bright gold ! There's not the smallest orb which thou bchold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims : Such harmony is in immortal souls." Bohan had sat down to indulge his feelings for a few moments, and to rest himself after a long journey,... | |
 | Theology - 1838 - 1074 pages
...reciprocity and benevolence. "There's not an orb, which tliou behold'st But in his motion, like an angel sings Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims: Such harmony is in immortal souls, But while this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it." : ba striking analogy... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1838 - 1076 pages
...reciprocity and universal benevolence. "There's not nn orb, which thou behold'at But in his motion, like an angel sings Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims: Such harmony is in immortal souls, But while this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it." 4. There is a striking... | |
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Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims : Such harmony is in immortal souls ;... 
