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" If we could open and intend our eye, We all, like Moses, should espy Ev'n in a bush the radiant Deity. But we despise these his inferior ways (Though no less full of miracle and praise) : Upon the flowers of heaven we gaze ; The stars of earth no wonder... "
The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse - Page 182
by Abraham Cowley - 1809
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The Works of Abraham Cowley, Volume 3

Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 290 pages
...the Creator's real poetry, Than when we with attention look Upon the third day's volume of the book ? If we could open and intend our eye, We all, like...Though these perhaps do, more than they, The life pf mankind sway. Although no part of mighty nature be More stor'd with beauty, power, and mystery ;...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...the Creator's real poetry, Than when we with attention look Upon the third day's volume of the book ? If we could open and intend our eye, We all, like...inferior ways (Though no less full of miracle and praise) s Upon the flowers of Heaven we gaze; The stars of Earth no wonder in us raise, 7 Matth. vi. 2<). Though...
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The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Moral and political ...

Richard Hurd - 1811 - 414 pages
...Creator's real poetry ; Than when we with attention look Upon the third day's volume of the hook ? If we could open and intend our eye, We all, like...Moses, .should espy, Ev'n in a Bush, the radiant Deity. Infinite are the uses, continued he, which DIAI.OO«» would result from this method of applying experiment...
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The works of Richard Hurd, Volume 3

Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 418 pages
...Creator's real poetry ; Than when we with attention look Upon the third day's volume of the book ? If we could open and intend our eye, We all, like...Moses, should espy, Ev'n in a Bush, the radiant Deity. Infinite are the uses, continued he, which Duioau« . ii. would result from this method of applying...
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The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Moral and political ...

Richard Hurd - 1811 - 406 pages
...Creator.s real poetry ; Than when we with attention look Upon the third day.s volume of the book ? If we could open and intend our eye, We all, like Moses, should espy, JEv.n in a Bush, the radiant Deity. , ' Infinite are the uses, continued he, which 11. would result...
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Wild flowers and their teachings

Wild flowers - 1845 - 110 pages
...flowers of Nature. SOUTHEY. WHERE do we finer strokes and colours see Of the Creator's real Poetry ? But we despise these His inferior ways, (Though no...Though these perhaps do more than they The life of man sway. WHITE STONECROP. WHERE men who've braved the cannon's roar, Are pale with speechless dread,...
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The British Prose Writers...: Cowley's essays. Shenstone's essays

1821 - 424 pages
...physic; the former, to sustain man's life, and the latter, to guard it against disease and sickness. If we could open and intend our eye, We all, like...miracle and praise) : Upon the flowers of heaven we gaze 5 The stars of earth * no wonder in us raise, Though these perhaps do more than they The life of mankind...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...276. In a hair as heart ;] How much superior to a conceit of Cowley, addressed to J. Evelyne, Esq. " If we could open and intend our eye, We all, like Moses, should espy, E'en in a Bush, the radiant Deity !" Very sublime is the idea of the Great First Cause in a fragment...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 268 pages
...the Creator's real poetry, Than when we with attention look Upon the third day's volume of the book ? If we could open and intend our eye, We all, like Moses, should espy Even in a bush the radiant Deity. But we despise these his inferior ways (Though no less full of miracle...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 246 pages
...the Creator's real poetry, Than when we with attention look Upon the third day's volume of the book ? If we could open and intend our eye, We all, like Moses, should espy .Even in a bush the radiant Deity. But we despise these his inferior ways (Though no less full of miracle...
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