The Wonders of the HeavensJohn Cassell, 1852 - 144 страници |
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Страница 90 - runs thus :—" There are celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the Sun, and another glory of the Moon, and another glory of the stars ; star differeth from star in glory." To which verdict, we, for our part, understanding
Страница 37 - the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music, Creep in our ears ;—soft stillness and the night Becomes the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica; look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patterns of bright gold
Страница 89 - has set them in the firmament of heaven, to give light upon their earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness : and God has seen that it was good. It
Страница 37 - all the ground, As when the Moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light: When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene, Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars
Страница 89 - Thus saith Jehovah, that created the heavens ; God himself that formed the Earth and made it: he hath established it; he created it not in vain ; he formed it to be inhabited. I am Jehovah, and there is none else.
Страница 13 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my month hath kissed my hand ; * This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For
Страница 12 - Thou sun of this great world, both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater; sound his praise Iu thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st! Moon, that now meet'st the orient
Страница 44 - and paletots continually. The poet will not therefore need to say to the cuckoo, ' Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee ; we'd make with joyful wing, our annual visit round the globe, companions of the spring !' for at the proper season he will find railways advertising cheap trains to
Страница 100 - Yet thou hast made him but a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over all the works of thy hands ; thou hast
Страница 20 - Whether the sun, predominant in heaven, Rise on the earth, or earth rise on the sun ; He from the east his flaming road begin, Or she from the west her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.