 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1847 - 454 pages
...There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still choiring to the young-eyed cherubim. Such harmony is in immortal...But, while this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly clow it in, we cannot hear it." The ancients pretend to say that the idea of this music originated... | |
 | English literature - 1848 - 314 pages
...How sweet the moonlight sleeps npon this bank ! — Sit, Jessica : look how the floor of heaven la thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's...sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim." Certainly it is the time of music, for nature seems herself to be living by the pulsations of a tranquil... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - Readers - 1847 - 502 pages
...patinps 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 us in, we cannot hear it. Enter Musicians. Come, ho, and wake Diana with a hymn ; With sweetest... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 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. Such harmony is in immortal souls." It was the tendency in general of the Attic mind to study with ardour, morals, politics, and religion,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 364 pages
...and despise those abodes There is not a single star which thou beholdest But in its motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim....But while this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it" Merchant of Venice. * " If minds in general are not made to be strongly... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...patincs of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb which thou buhold'st, But in his motion like an e living souls ; ye birds That singing up to Heav'n gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. Come, ho, and wake... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 716 pages
...thou behold'st But, in his motion, like OD 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 it in, we cannot hear it" It may be, that the laws of the material universe, gravitation itself,... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 pages
...:— " There's not the smallest orb that ihon behold'st, But In his motion like an angel sings, Mil! 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."— (i¥.) Newton further... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica: 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. MUSIC. 1 am never merry,... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica ; 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. Come, ho! and wake... | |
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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,... 
