 | Edward Everett - Education - 1840 - 440 pages
...thou behold'st But, in his motion, like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed chernbins, Such harmony is in immortal souls : But, while this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it." It may be, that the laws of the material universe, gravitation itself,... | |
 | Fitch Waterman Taylor - Columbia (Frigate) - 1840 - 396 pages
...patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb, which thoubehold'st, But in his motion, like an angel, sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim : Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it." But as I turn from... | |
 | Frederick Coombs - Phrenology - 1841 - 178 pages
...and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Ipv'd one ; look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's...cherubim ; Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But. whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. " Whose baule-fielda... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1841 - 344 pages
...patterns 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 cherubim....But, while this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear iV This idea is in some measure sanctioned by the Hebrew Scriptures : "... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...Venice, act v. : — " There's not the smallest orb that thou IKhold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim; Such harmony is in immortal souls ! But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear." (N.; Newton further says,... | |
 | Fitch Waterman Taylor - Voyages around the world - 1842 - 668 pages
...no other muse has sung. What can surpass the lines I copy here? " Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold ; There's...cherubim : Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it." But as I turn from... | |
 | William Bradford Homer, Edwards Amasa Park - Congregational churches - 1842 - 430 pages
...such heavenly food. " There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim ; Such harmony is in immortal souls, But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it." " There is," says... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1843 - 608 pages
...most sublime passage, perhaps, in Shakspeare : — " Sit, Jessica : look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold ; There's...immortal souls ; But, while this muddy vesture of decay Does grossly close us in, we cannot hear it." | 12. " The world is full of living spirits," he proceeds... | |
 | Fitch Waterman Taylor - Voyages around the world - 1843 - 676 pages
...and no othermuse hassung. What can surpass the lines Icopyhere? " Look, how the floor of heaven IB thick inlaid with patines of bright gold ; There's...cherubim : Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it" But as I turn from... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - Art - 1843 - 612 pages
...in a familiar passage : There's not the smallest orb which thou beholdest But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim : Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Polh grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. though for the " dying... | |
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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 cherubim: Such harmony is in immortal souls; . But,... 
