| Leo Hartley Grindon - Figures of speech - 1851 - 258 pages
...patines of bright gold ! There's not the smallest orb which thou behold 'st Bnt 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 round, we cannot hear it.' (Merchant of Venice, v. 5.) Milton alludes to it on several occasions.... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...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 it in, we can not hear it. Come, ho, and wake Diana with a hymn : With sweetest touches pierce... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1851 - 636 pages
...patiues of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou beholds't, But in its motion like an angel sings. Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim, Such harmony is in immortal souls." Never was there a man who understood the mute language of inanimate nature, of stream, and tree, and... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1853 - 770 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. • «««•'°°... | |
| Church work with the poor - 1853 - 1002 pages
...fiteratett. glsíronomg. NOTICES FOR NOVEMBER, 1853. ВТ G. С. " See how the floor of Heaven I« thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's...cherubim : Such harmony is in immortal souls, But tr hile this muddy vesture of defay Doth grossly close il in, ve cannot hear it." SMAKSPÏÀEE. ТПЕЛЕ... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1853 - 690 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. (Shakespeare; Merchant... | |
| 1853 - 640 pages
...not ascend — to what exquisite harmonies may it not reach ! " * * * Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold ; There's...young-eyed cherubim ; Such harmony is in immortal souls ; Hut while this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it."f Mr. Morell discusses... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...HARMONY OF THE SPHERES. 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 it in, we cannot hear it. MV v. 1. HATRED. Were... | |
| Thomas Robert Jolliffe - 1854 - 294 pages
...jewels of bright gold ! " There 's not the smallest star that thou behold'st, " But in his orbit 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 taste it." MERCHANT OP VENICE. Tuesday, 28th. — A favourable breeze sprang... | |
| John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, James Hogg - 1854 - 512 pages
...never-wearied stars. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, But in its motion I ike 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 Shepherd. I'm sure that... | |
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