 Fierce as his clime, uncultured as his plains, A soil where virtue's fairest flowers might shoot, And trees of science bend with glorious fruit; Sees in his soul, involved with thickest night, An emanation of eternal light, Ordained, 'midst sinking worlds,...  Remarks During a Journey Through North America in the Years 1819, 1820, and ... - Page 161by Adam Hodgson - 1823 - 335 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1812 - 850 pages
...glorious fruit ; Sees in his soul, involved with thickest night, An emanation of eternal light, Ordain'd, 'midst sinking worlds, his dust to fire, And shine for ever when the stars expire. Is he not Man, though knowledge never shed Her quickening beams on his neglected head ? Is he not Man,... | |
 | James Montgomery - English poetry - 1810 - 218 pages
...glorious fruit ; Sees in his soul, involved with thickest night, An emanation of eternal light, Ordain'd, midst sinking worlds, his dust to fire, And shine for ever when the stars expire. Is he not Man, though knowledge never shed Her quickening beams on his neglected head ? Is he not Man,... | |
 | English literature - 1810 - 1018 pages
...glorious fruit ; Sees in his soul, involv'd in thickest night, An emanation of eternal light, Ordain'd, midst sinking worlds, his dust to fire And shine for ever when the «t«s expire. U he not man, though sweet religion's voice> Ne'er bade the mourner in his God rejoice1?... | |
 | History - 1812 - 822 pages
...glorious fruit ; Sees in his soul, involved with thickest night, An emanation of eternal light, Ordam'd, 'midst sinking worlds, his dust to fire. And shine for ever when the stars expire. Is he not Mm, though knowledge never shed Her quickening beams on his neglected head ? Is he not Man,... | |
 | Adam Hodgson - Canada - 1824 - 442 pages
...virtue's fairest flowers might shoot, And trees of science bend with glorious fruit; O " Sees in his soul, involved in thickest night, " An emanation of...fire, " And shine for ever when the stars expire." An extensive Slave-trade is carried on between these regions and those western parts of the States... | |
 | 1824 - 452 pages
...glorious fruit, Sees in his soul, involved with thickest night, An emanation of eternal light, Ordain'd midst sinking worlds his dust to fire, And shine for ever when the stars expire. The poets have almost invariably been on the side of humanity ; and Rogers, in his " Pleasures of Memory,"... | |
 | James Montgomery - English poetry - 1825 - 232 pages
...flowers might shoot, And trees of science bend with glorious fruit, Sees in his soul, involved with thickest night, An emanation of eternal light, Ordained,...'midst sinking worlds, his dust to fire, And shine forever when the stars expire. Is he not MAW, though knowledge never shed Her quickening beams on his... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1825 - 1096 pages
...glorious fruit ; Sees in bis soul, involved with thickest night, An emanation of eternal light, Ordain'd 'midst sinking worlds, his dust to fire, And shine for ever when the stars expire. Is he not Man, though knowledge never shed Her quick'ning beams on his neglected head? Is he not Man,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...glorious fruit; Sees in his soul, involved with thickest night, An emanation of eternal light, Ordain'd, 'midst sinking worlds, his dust to fire, And shine for ever when the stars expire. Is he not nut«, though knowledge never shed Her quickening Iteams on his neglected head f Is he not... | |
 | Scotland - 1833 - 1056 pages
...glorious fruit ; Sees in his soul, involv'd with thickest night, An emanation of eternal light, Ordain'd, midst sinking worlds, his dust to fire, And shine for ever when the stars expire." There is much strong writing in the other Books ; but they are often rather rhetorical than poetical;... | |
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