 | English sacred lyrics - 1884 - 296 pàgines
...strong, if wise, if all do smart, WILLIAM HABINGTON. XXXIX. born 1605. NOX NOCTI INDICAT SCIENTIAM. WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere, So rich...speaking the Creator's name. No unregarded star Contracts iis light Into so small a character, Removed far from our human sight, But if we steadfast look, We... | |
 | Ellen Crofts - 1884 - 394 pàgines
...a fervent and orthodox Catholic, wrote poems filled with the calm of a deep and poetic mysticism. " When I survey the bright Celestial sphere, So rich...silent, but is eloquent In speaking the Creator's name. " Equally beautiful are some of the poems of VAUGHAN, also calmer and quieter expressions of a soul... | |
 | 1885 - 608 pàgines
...of just men made perfect. (Heb. xii. 23.) OUR EVENING OUTLOOK. XVI. WHAT THE HEAVENS ARE TELLING. ' When I survey the bright Celestial sphere, So rich...soul her wings doth spread, And heavenward flies, TV Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies, For the bright firmament Shoots... | |
 | Joseph Hirst Lupton - 1888 - 194 pàgines
...that night Doth like an ^thiop bride appeare, My soul her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, Th' Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. For the bright firmament Shootes forth no flame So silent, but is eloquent In speaking the Creator's name. No unregarded star... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1889 - 394 pàgines
...inure Those that succeed. There is no cure Nor antidote but tears LXXVI NOX NOCTI INDICAT SCIENTIAM WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere; So rich...Night Doth like an Ethiop bride appear: My soul her wrings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, The Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volumes of... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1890 - 976 pàgines
...heavenward flies, The Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volume of the skies. For the briglit firmament Shoots forth no flame So silent but is eloquent...unregarded star Contracts its light Into so small character, Removed far from our human sight. But if we steadfast look, We shall discern In it, as in... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1891 - 408 pàgines
...unite, To live with Him, and sing in endless morn of light ! /. Milton ffOX NOCTI INDICA T SCIENTIAL. When I survey the bright Celestial sphere : So rich...heaven-ward flies, The Almighty's mysteries to read ]n the large volumes of the skies. For the bright firmament Shoots forth no flame So silent, but is... | |
 | 1891 - 432 pàgines
...quotation from the psalter : " Nox nocti indicat scientiam : " Night unto night showeth knowledge. " When I survey the bright Celestial sphere, So rich with jewels hung, that night Doth like an .5Jthiop bride appear ; My soul her wings doth spread And heavenward flies, Th' Almighty's mysteries... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1892 - 360 pàgines
...falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. (112) WILLIAM HABINGTON. Nox nocti indicat scientiam. WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere : So rich...flies, The Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volume of the skies. For the bright firmament Shoots forth no flame So silent, but is eloquent In speaking... | |
 | Charles John Abbey - 1892 - 460 pàgines
...admirable in purity and dignity of thought. The following is headed : — Xox nocti indicqt Scientiam. When I survey the bright Celestial sphere, — So rich with jewels hung, that night Doth like an yEthiop bride appear, — My soul her wings doth spread, And heavenward flies, Th' Almighty's mysteries... | |
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WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere; So rich with jewels hung, that night Doth like an Ethiop bride appear: My soul her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, The Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. For the bright firmament... 
