Or roll the planets through the boundless sky. Some less refined, beneath the moon's pale light, Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night, Or suck the mists in grosser air below, Or dip their pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on... History of John Bull. Essays. Poetry - Página 115de Jonathan Swift - 1801Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 606 páginas
...employed in various offices, and each hath his office assigned him: Some in the fields of purest aether play, And bask and whiten in the blaze of day ; Some guide the course, &c. Qthly. He hath given his spirits the charge of the several parts of dress; intimating thereby, that... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...and various tasks assign'd By laws eternal to th' nërial kind. Some in the f,elds of purest œther t altars, when the priest Turns Atheist, as did Eli's eons, * of wandering orbe on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky; Some, less refin'd, beneath... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 páginas
...Demons, hear : Ye know the spheres, and various tasks assign 'd By laws eternal to the aerial kind. Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask...whiten in the blaze of day ; Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky ; Some, less refined, beneath... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 páginas
...demons, hear ! Ye know the spheres, and various tasks assign 'd By laws eternal to the aerial kind. Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask...whiten in the blaze of day : Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky: Some, less refined, beneath... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...and various tasks assign'd By laws eternal to th' aerial kind. Some in the fields of purest œther rowd With riehest proffers strove : Among the rest young Edwin eourse of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky ; Some, less refin'd,... | |
| 1826 - 300 páginas
...demons, hear ! Ye know the spheres, and various* tasks assign'd By laws eternal to the aerial kind, Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask...whiten in the blaze of day : Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky: Some, less refin'd, beneath... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 páginas
...Demons, hear; Ye know the spheres, and various tasks assigu'd By laws eternal to the at'rial kind. r success has been great' est who have most endeavoured of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky; Some, less refined, beneath... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 páginas
...demons, hear ! Ye know the spheres, and various tasks assign'd By laws eternal to th' aerial kind. Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask...whiten in the blaze of day : Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky : Some less refin'd, beneath... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 páginas
...rational and more in earnest : — And though it be a two-foot trout, 'Tis with a single hair pull'd out. Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask...whiten in the blaze of day : Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky : 80 Some less refined, beneath... | |
| 1836 - 436 páginas
...Demons, hear ! Ye know the spheres, and various tasks assign'd By laws eternal to th' aereal kind. Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask...whiten in the blaze of day ; Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky ; Some, less refin'd, beneath... | |
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