 | 1858 - 546 halaman
...to part, I ask not prond philosophy To tell me what thou art. Still seen ai to my children's Bight A midway station given, For happy spirits to alight,...earth and heaven. Can all that optics teach unfold Tby form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in tby radiant bow ? When science from... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 halaman
...never to be forgotten." The beautiful stanzas of Campbell on the Rainbow, beginning, " Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky, When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud philosophy To tell me what thou art" — 281 poem on the same subject by Henry Vaughan, who flourished about the... | |
 | 1860 - 508 halaman
...such a bridge over a fall ; and the idea that the rainbow was the bridge of spirits, is old enough. " Still seem as to my childhood's sight A midway station...happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven." The Norse gods rode over the bridge, Bif-raust, from earth to heaven ; and their bridge was the rainbow... | |
 | Samuel Ware Fisher - 1860 - 570 halaman
...earth through all time, speaking peace and good will to men, the pledge of mercy. " Triumphant arch ! that fill'st the sky, When storms prepare to part ; I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me where thou art ! " When o'er the green, undeluged earth, — Heaven's covenant, — thou didst shine,... | |
 | World alliance of reformed Churches - 1877 - 400 halaman
...one pull to drag up the Congregationalist to his lofty eminence? Presbytery was the meeting-point — "a midway station given for happy spirits to alight betwixt the earth and heaven." The idea thus humorously presented by one whose name must be ever sacred in an assemblage like this,... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain - 1877 - 502 halaman
...hands of the Most High have bended it ; and the poet says with Campbell — Triumphal arch that fills the sky "When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud philosophy To tell me what thou art. The lightning is not merely an electric discharge ; it is a barbed arrow of... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 halaman
...odours from the spicy shore Of ARABIE the blest. — MILTON, Paradise Lost. Arch— Trinmphal ARCH that fill'st the sky, When storms prepare to part...ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art. THOMAS CAMPBELL, To the Rainbow. Arguing. — In ARGUING, too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en... | |
 | Laurel - 1879 - 438 halaman
...wings of cherubim, Who say, "We've finish'd here." To the Ha By THOMAS CAMPBELL. »-pRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky •*- When storms prepare to...ask not proud philosophy To teach me what thou art. To the Rainbow. 175 Still seem as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits... | |
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TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art. Still seem as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given — For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. 
