 ... to the music of its melodies, And sparkle in its brightness. Earth is veiled And mantled with its beauty; and the walls, That close the universe with crystal in, Are eloquent with voices, that proclaim The unseen glories of immensity, In harmonies,...  Clio - Page 79by James Gates Percival - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - Elocution - 1878 - 422 pages
...proclaim The unseen glories of immensity, In harmonies, too perfect, and too high, For aught but beings of celestial mould, And speak to man in one eternal...power. The year leads round the seasons in a choir Forever charming, and forever new, Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay, The mournful, and the... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - 1878 - 426 pages
...proclaim The unseen glories of immensity, In harmonies, too perfect, and too high, For aught but beings of celestial mould, And speak to man in one eternal...power. The year leads round the seasons in a choir Forever charming, and forever new, Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. The mournful, and the... | |
 | Isaac Newton Carleton - 1878 - 140 pages
...proclaim The unseen glories of immensity, In harmonies, too perfect, and too high For aught but beings of celestial mould, And speak to man, in one eternal hymn, — Unfading beauty, and unyielding power. Joe. G. Perriral, Coon., 1795-1S56. 22. Memory. They are poor That have lost nothing; they are poorer... | |
 | Garden - Nature study - 1882 - 530 pages
...of JJaiure as Ǥeasona (Change. " The world leads round the seasons in a choir, For ever changing, and for ever new, Blending the grand, the beautiful,...gay, The mournful and the tender, in one strain." PERCIVAL. T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW. EDINBURGH ; AND NEW YORK. 1882. To the enlightened eye... | |
 | California - 1880 - 596 pages
...proclaim The unseen glories of immensity, In harmonies too perfect and too high For aught but beings of celestial mould. And speak to man in one eternal hymn. Unfading beauty and unyielding power." Who knows what poetry is, knows as well what it is not; and, in our opinion, no poet among us has drawn... | |
 | Joseph Richard Bradway - Poetry - 1885 - 52 pages
...proclaim The unseen glories of immensity In harmonies too perfect and too high For aught but things of celestial mould; And speak to man in one eternal hymn Unfading beauty and unyielding power. Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets, and the more We feel of poesy do we become... | |
 | Criticism - 1859 - 1128 pages
...glories of immensity, In harmonies, too perfect, and too high For aught but beings of celestial mold, And speak to man, in one eternal hymn, Unfading beauty and unyielding power. That in the passages above quoted we have an illustration of Percival's own views on the subject of... | |
 | George Boyle - American poetry - 1886 - 318 pages
...proclaim The unseen glories of immensity In harmonies too perfect and too high For aught but beings of celestial mould, And speak to man in one eternal hymn Unfading beauty and unyielding power. Mr. Percival died in 1857. George Morris. General Morris (born, according to Griswold, in New York,... | |
 | Charles Northend - Maxims - 1890 - 224 pages
...proclaim The unseen glories of immensity, In harmonies, too perfect, and too high For aught but beings of celestial mould, And speak to man, in one eternal hymn,— Unfading beauty, and unyielding power. Jos. a. Perdval, Conn., 1795-186*. 22. Memory. They are poor That have lost nothing; they are poorer... | |
 | John Vance Cheney - American poetry - 1895 - 466 pages
...proclaim The unseen glories of immensity, In harmonies too perfect and too high For aught but beings of celestial mould, And speak to man in one eternal hymn, Unfading beauty and unyielding power." The world of poetry is peculiarly Percival's own ; but there, too, a miss is as good as a mile, and his... | |
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