 ... orbs encroach ; Flowers of the sky ! ye too to age must yield, Frail as your silken sisters of the field ! Star after star from Heaven's high arch shall rush, Suns sink on Suns, and systems systems crush, Headlong, extinct, to one dark centre fall,...  Morning studies and evening pastimes - Pagina 8di Spencer Timothy Hall - 1870Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1855 - 646 pagine
...centre fall. Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, And death and night and chaos mingle all; Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form ; Mounts...flame, And soars and shines another and the same." Laplace, however, showed by astronomical calculations, that the acceleration was merely periodic, that... | |
 | James David Forbes - 1856 - 218 pagine
...systems crush, Headlong, extinct, to one dark centre fall, And Death and Night and Chaos mingle all ! 'Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal...flame, And soars and shines, another and the same." 812 CHAP. II., § 2.] PHYSICAL ASTRONOMY — LAGKANGE. quainted. The range of insight which man has... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pagine
...systems crush, Headlong, extinct, to one dark centre fall, And death, and night, and chaos mingle all ! Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal...flame, And soars and shines, another and the same ! DARWIN. LOCH KATRINE. To issue from the glen, No pathway meets the wanderer's ken, Unless he climb... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - 1857 - 362 pagine
..."Mundus alter et idem;" or more probably still, from this passage in Darwin's " Botanic Garden:"— " Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal...flame, And soars and shines another and the same." Then we have the passage in one of Wordsworth's " Sonnets:"— " The feather whence the pen "Was shaped,... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - 1857 - 336 pagine
..."Mundus alter et idem;" or more probably still, from this passage in Darwin's " Botanic Garden :" — " Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal...on wings of flame, And soars and shines another and tlie same.'" Then we have the passage in one of Wordsworth's " Sonnets : " — " The feather whence... | |
 | Thomas Brown, David Welsh - 1860 - 744 pagine
...one dark centre fall, And Death, and Night, and Chaos, mingle all .' Till, o'er the wreck, emeTBinjt from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful...And soars, and shines, — another, and the same."* Such are the benefits resulting from that happiest of all inventions, which we may be said to owe to... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pagine
...systems crush, Headlong, extinct, to one dark centre fall And death, and night, and chaos mingle all ; Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal...flame, And soars and shines, another and the same. LXXX. — SELECT PASSAGES OF DESCRIPTIVE PROSE. THE LAND OP BEULAH. — Bunyan. AFTER this, I beheld... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 pagine
...systems crush, Headlong, extinct, to one dark centre fall, And death and night and chaos mingle all ! — Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal...flame, And soars and shines, another and the same. There is also a fine moral inspiration, as well as the usual rhetorical brilliancy, in the following... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1862 - 432 pagine
...systems crush, Headlong, extinct, to one dark centre fall, And death and night and chaos mingle all ! Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal...flame, And soars and shines, another and the same." Canto iv. line 379. DACBENEY : A Description of Active and Extinct Volcanoes, Earthquakes, &c., by... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 pagine
...systems crush, Headlong, extinct, to one dark centre fall, And death and night and chaos mingle all ! — Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm. Immortal...flame, And soars and shines, another and the same. There is also a fine moral inspiration, as well as the usnal rhetorical brilliancy, in the following... | |
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