New faculties, or learns at least to employ More worthily the powers she owned before, Discerns in all things what, with stupid gaze Of ignorance, till then she overlooked, A ray of heavenly light gilding all forms Terrestrial, in the vast and the minute,... The Odd Fellows' Quarterly Magazine - Page 4101845Full view - About this book
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...heav'nly light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute; The unambiguous footsteps of the God Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. Much conversant with heav'n, she often holds With those fair ministers of light to man, That fill the... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute ; The unambiguous footsteps of the God Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. Much conversant with heav'n, she often holds With those fair ministers of light to man, That fill the... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute ; The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. Much conversant with heaven, she often holds With those fair ministers of light to man, That fill the... | |
| Edward Mangin - Books and reading - 1808 - 236 pages
...speaking of Deity, he says, with grandeur befitting the awful theme— " The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing. And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds." \ » This great poet's love of freedom also inspires his verse with more than wonted energy; and, in... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute ; The unambiguous footsteps of the God Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. Much conversant with heav'n, she often holds With those fair ministers of light to man, That fill the... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pages
...A ray of heav'nly light, gilding all forms sio The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives it's lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. Much conversant with Heav'n, she often holds With those fair ministers of light to man, That fill the... | |
| William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute ; The unambiguous footsteps of the God Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. Much conversant with heav'n, she often holds With those fair ministers of light to man, That fill the... | |
| 1831 - 492 pages
...overlooked ; — A ray of heavenly light gilding all forms Terrestrial, in the vast and the minute ; The unambiguous footsteps of a God Who gives its lustre...wing, And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds. Coirper. No one cultivates science with half the relish that a christian does. He has the heartwork... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1869 - 636 pages
...it was, he goes on to describe that mind tracing through all nature The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds. He then proceeds to his well-known address to the starry heavens, also too well-known to need quotation,... | |
| William Cowper - 1815 - 338 pages
...forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute ; The unamhiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives it's lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. Much conversant with Heav'n, she often holds With those fair ministers of light to man, That fill the... | |
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