 | Literary gleanings - 1848 - 250 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. Mrs. Child. OH sympathy! sweet is thy sigh to spirits that hiddenly bleed— The tear of a pitiful... | |
 | Josiah Moody Fletcher - 1848 - 146 pages
...charm'tit 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. BOGEBS. The Moon. THE moon is sailing o'er the sfcy, But lonely all, as if she pined For somewhat of... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...the least of things :— " The very law» which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its souce,— That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course."—Rogert. In 1667, Newton, having laid the foundation of his great, work, The Mathematical... | |
 | George Harris - 1849 - 540 pages
...our planet ! Truly, as well as musically, has the poet sung — 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. In like manner, one is lost in astonishment at discovering that the same force which keeps the sun... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 328 pages
...reason, to calculate. Or, as Rogers justly observes : — " That very law which moulds a tear And bidi it trickle from its source, That law preserves the...a sphere, And guides the planets in their course." This law is indispensable for the preservation and existence of the present order of things ; and it... | |
 | 1849 - 654 pages
...accuracy of conception rarely traceable in a poet : — ' The тегу law that moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source : That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planet» in their course !' All this, I grant, is not positive evidence, but it removes, at least,... | |
 | Frederick Moses - 1849 - 164 pages
...to be equal at equal distances. It appears to be that principle or inherent property of matter which preserves the earth a sphere, and guides the planets in their course, and which, on being violently disturbed, restores the equilibrium at any cost. It produces lightning... | |
 | 1850 - 454 pages
...impress us with a sense of sublimity. " That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from iu source — That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course." We anticipate no chilling of innate fervor, but upon the contrary a brighter incandescence of poetic... | |
 | John Epps - 1850 - 346 pages
...attraction grew, As nearer to each other borne ? And he adds— The very law that moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source. That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guide the planets in their course. He thus recognizes in the language of poetic beauty that the law... | |
 | Edward Bascome - 1851 - 270 pages
...completed, the same ends will be accomplished by the same agency : " 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." We further know that all organized matter, whether animal or vegetable, possesses the materials of... | |
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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. 
