 | Electronic journals - 1900 - 614 pages
...fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art. When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! The date of ' Lamia ' is 1820. I do not know that of Campbell's poem. C. LAWRENCE FORD, BA Bath.... | |
 | Stephen Henry Ward - Human beings - 1849 - 248 pages
...have resolved it into simple rays of light, and may perhaps sigh and feel with our poet that — " When science from creation's face Enchantment's veil...lovely visions yield their place To cold, material laws ! " Yet with these material laws what exquisite poetry is there not intertwined. The rainbow enters... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1850 - 374 pages
...teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamed of gems and gold, Hid in thy radiant brow ? 4. When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! 6. And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams 6. When o'er the green undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant"... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1850 - 260 pages
...author of the Pleasures of Hope expressed a similar sentiment in his celebrated Ode to the Rainbow — " When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...visions yield their place To cold material laws.'' Both of these writers seem to be wrong in this particular, the first more especially so. No doubt the... | |
 | Henry Webster Parker - American literature - 1850 - 254 pages
...would have been a waste of breath, to answer such a man in any other words than those of Campbell— " When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...visions yield their place, To cold material laws." MOULTING OF MIND. In all the forms of nature, we see change, progress, transition. The earth itself... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Bible - 1851 - 348 pages
...people in his temple—bound together by the name and presence of God as by a chain of living fire, " When science from creation's face, Enchantment's veil...visions yield their place To cold material laws." True, but not merely lovely but dreadful visions recede before the dawn of science; while the rainbow... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1851 - 372 pages
...teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamed of gems and gold, Hid in thy radiant brow? 4. When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold materfal laws ! • 5. And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams 6. When o'er the green undeluged earth,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...Heaven. Can all that opties teach unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? When Science from Creation's...beams Was woven in the sky. When, o'er the green, undelnged earth, Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold, Hid in thy radiant bow 1 When science from Creation's face, Enchantment's veil...of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undelug'd earth, Heaven's covenant, thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1842 - 322 pages
...face Enchantment's vail withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! 5. And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of...the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams WTas woven in the sky. 6. When, o'er the green, undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant thou didst shine,... | |
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And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. 
