 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 - Pagina 182door Abraham Cowley - 1809Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 290 pagina’s
...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 ;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 414 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 418 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 406 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Wild flowers - 1845 - 110 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | 1821 - 424 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 268 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 246 pagina’s
...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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