| James Thomson - 1842 - 440 Seiten
...wondrous shapes; hy fearful murmuring crowds Portentous deem'd. Amid the radiant orhs, That more th.m deck, that animate the sky, The life-infusing suns...rushing comet to the sun descends ; And as he sinks helow the shading earth, With awful train projected o'er the heavens, The guilty nations tremhle. But.... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 604 Seiten
...our planet, and that nothing is to be feared respecting its injury or demolition from such a cause. "Lo ! from the dread immensity of space, . Returning with accelerated course, The rushing comet on the sun descends, And as he sinks below the shading earth, The guilty nations tremble. Th' enlighten'd... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 290 Seiten
...our planet, and that nothing is to be feared respecting its injury or demolition from such a cause. " Lo! from the dread immensity of space, Returning with accelerated course, The rushing comet on the sun descends, And as he sinks below the shading earth, The guilty nations tremble. Th' enlighten'd... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 Seiten
...and convince such horrible falsehood. Camber's Companion t« tin- Ttmpk. ACCELERATE. icclvr А С С Lo ! from the dread immensity of space, Returning...accelerated course, The rushing comet to the sun descends ; Am! as he sink» below the shading earth, With awful train projected o'er the heavens, The guilty... | |
| Jeremiah Joyce - 1846 - 456 Seiten
...other worlds; Lo ! from the dtend immensity of space Returning with accelerated conrse The rnshing comet to the sun descends, And, as he sinks below the shading enrth, With nwful train projected o'er the henvens, The guilty uations tremble. SUMMER, 1. 1702. C.... | |
| James Thomson - 1847 - 504 Seiten
...sky ; or horizontal dart, 1701 In wondrous shapes — by fearful murmuring crowds Portentous deem'd. Amid the radiant orbs That more than deck, that animate the sky, Spallanzani, however, found it most brilliant in oxygen gas, and extinguished in hydrogen gas, carbonic... | |
| James Thomson - 1849 - 524 Seiten
...1700 In wondrous shapes: by fearful murmuring crowd* Portentous deom'd. Amid the radiant or°M, Thai more than deck, that animate the sky, The life-infusing...other worlds , Lo ! from the dread immensity of space 1705 Returning, with accelerated course, The rushing comet to the sun descends ; And, as he sinks below... | |
| 1896 - 664 Seiten
...that : — Amid the radiant огЫ That more than deck, that animate the aky, The life-infiiiing «uns of other worlds, Lo ! from the dread immensity of space Returning, with accelerated course, The ruining comet to the eun deccende ; And as be sinks below the «hading earth, With awful train projected... | |
| William Gaspey - 1850 - 96 Seiten
...below began, Above it will be joined again, Loved, lost, lamented Mary Anne ! INVOCATION TO A COMET. Lo! from the dread immensity of space, Returning with...projected o'er the heavens, The guilty nations tremble. THOMSON. PORTENTOUS stranger! whose mysterious course Through realms of unimaginable space A wondrous... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1851 - 854 Seiten
...the sky ; or horizontal dart, In wondrous shapes — by fearful murmuring- erowds Portentous deem'd. Amid the radiant orbs That more than deck, that animate...immensity of space Returning, with accelerated course, The miiling comet to the sun descends ; And as he sinks below the shading earth, With awful train projected... | |
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