 Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun ? or who could find, Whilst fly and leaf and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ? Why do we then shun Death with anxious strife ? If Light...  MILLEDULCIA: A THOUSAND PLEASANT THINGS - Page 2961857Full view - About this book
 | Hiram Mattison - 1856 - 240 pages
...who could find, Whilst fly, and leaf, and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thotf mad'st us blind ? Why do we, then, shun death with anxious strife? If light can thus deceive us, may not life ? 130. The earth and all the other MDEN4L/PE^0HLEu"oir °* planets revolve eastward... | |
 | Mrs. Manning (Charlotte Speir) - 1856 - 464 pages
...sunshine makes us blind, and then sublimely indicates the greater glories hidden from us by life :f " Why do we then shun death with anxious strife ? If light can thus deceive, wherefore not life ?" Kapila's doctrine however was cold and rigid; he makes the soul a passive, uuimpressiblc spectator... | |
 | Mrs. Manning (Charlotte Speir) - 1856 - 464 pages
...blind, and then sublimely indicates the greater glories hidden from us by life :f " Why do we then ahun death with anxious strife ? If light can thus deceive, wherefore not life ?" Kapila' s doctrine however was cold and rigid ; he makes the soul a passive, unimpressible spectator... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 416 pages
...fly, and leaf, and Insect stood reveal'd, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ! Why do wo then shun death, with anxious strife ? If light can...following passage : — Thus Penelope spoke. Then quickly Tclemachus meet'd aloud, Sounding around all the building ; his mother with smiles at her son, said,... | |
 | Mercy Grogan - 1857
...concealed Within thy beams, O Sun, or who could find, Whilst fly, and leaf, and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ?...— If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life ?'" " Oh, that is beautiful ! that is philosophic beauty ! " Esm6 exclaimed when he ceased. " The man... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1857 - 304 pages
...concealed Within thy beams, 0 Sun ! or who could find (Whilst fly, and leaf, and insect stood revealed) That to such countless orbs Thou mad'st us blind ?...death with anxious strife? If Light can thus deceive, why may not Life ? " "Your poets can't come up to that," said Mr. Howard, rather impolitely. Henri... | |
 | 1857 - 348 pages
...concealed Within thy beams, O sun ? or who could find, Whilst fly, and leaf, and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ? Why do we, then, shun death with anxious A WALK IN A CHURCHYARD. RC TRENCH. WE walked within the churchyard bounds, My little boy and I, —... | |
 | 1863
...concealed Within thy beams, 0 Sun? or who could • find, Whilst fly and leaf and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind? Why do we, then, -h,m Death with anxious strife ? If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life?" Mr. Buckle seemed... | |
 | William Mountford - 1858 - 511 pages
...concealed Within thy beams, O Sun ! or who could find, Whilst fly, and leaf, and insect, stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ?...strife? If light can thus deceive, wherefore not life ? J. BLANCO WBITB. MARHAM. PERSONS who have no faith themselves cannot understand in what way those... | |
 | 1858
...could find, Whilst fly, and leaf, and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou would'st us blind? Why do we then shun death with anxious strife...If light can thus deceive, wherefore not life ? THE SOLITARY SUNBEAM, The sunbeams infinitely small, In numbers numberless, Reveal, pervade, illumine all... | |
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