 Sit, 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 cherubins ; Such harmony is in immortal souls...  Nature - Page 45edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Sermons, English - 1869 - 350 pages
...words : — " There 's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But while this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it." The expression, then,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 508 pages
...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 cherubins : Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it." And Milton, Hymn on... | |
 | W. J. C. Miller - Mathematics - 1870 - 120 pages
...says ? — " There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it." Now, whatever is the... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Sermons, English - 1870 - 368 pages
...these words : There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young.eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But while this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it. The expression, then,... | |
 | Henry Green - Emblems - 1870 - 638 pages
...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 cherubins ; Such harmony is in immortal souls." And Ferdinand, in the Tempest, act i. sc. 2, 1. 387, vol. ip 20, after listening to Ariel's song, "... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...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 cherubins ; Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. (Enter musicians.)... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - Literary Criticism - 1871 - 554 pages
...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 cherubins ; Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. (Enter musician*.)... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - Readers - 1872 - 168 pages
...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 cherubins ;— Such harmony is in immortal souls ! But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. Come, ho, and wake... | |
 | John Hall Gladstone - 1872 - 244 pages
...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 cherubins : Such harmony is in immortal souls; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it." Faraday, who happened... | |
 | John Hall Gladstone - 1872 - 246 pages
...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 cherubins : Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it." Faraday, who happened... | |
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