 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1842 - 440 pages
...charm'st in faney's idle dream, In reason's philosophic page. That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves...sphere, And guides the planets in their course. TO AN OLD OAK. ROUND thee, alas ! no shadows move, — There once the steel-clad knight reclined, His... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 352 pages
...charm'st in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic page. That very law* which moulds a tear. And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves...sphere, And guides the planets in their course. TO A VOICE THAT HAD BEEN LOST. Vane, quid aff'ectas faciem niihi ponere, pictor ? Aeris et lingua; sum... | |
 | Samuel Wright - 1843 - 74 pages
...aggregations of matter which comprise the architecture of the heavens ! That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source ; That law preserves...earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course ! These simple properties, however, are all the result of combination, or of the relation of parts... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1843 - 490 pages
...still lower temperatures. CHAPTER IV. Capillary Attraction. That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves...a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. ROGERS. CONSIDERED in all its relations and bearings, capillary attraction is one of the most important... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...charm'st in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic page. That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves...a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, the greatest of metaphysical poets, is a native of Cockurmouth,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...charm'st in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic page. That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves...a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, the greatest of metaphysical poets, is a native of Cockermouth,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 772 pages
...charm'st in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic page. That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planeta in their course. WILLIAM WORDSWOKTII. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, the greatest of metaphysical poets,... | |
 | 1841 - 178 pages
...charm'st in fancy's idle dream, In reason's philosophic page. That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves...a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. ROGERS* CANZONET. ON a day (alack the day ! ) Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom, passing... | |
 | 1845 - 610 pages
...continued, by one Almighty hand. It has been beautifully said that — The very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves...a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. And soil is with the still greater marvels of the animated world. The same law, that presides over... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 pages
...charm'st in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic page. That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves...a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. * The law of gravitation. WRITTEN IN A SICK CHAMBER. 1793. THERE, in that bed so closely curtained... | |
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That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. 
