 The rising vapours catch the silver light ; Thence fancy measures, as they parting fly, Which first will throw its shadow on the eye, Passing the source of light ; and thence away, Succeeded quick by brighter still than they.  The Farmer's Boy;: A Rural Poem - Page xlby Robert Bloomfield - 1806 - 99 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Bloomfield - 1800 - 374 pages
...28. And so I think certainly is that., "Till Folly's wages, wounds and thorns, they reap. III. 3?. But the most remarkable of all, and where I had no...above these wafted clouds are seen (In a remoter sky yet more serene) Others, detach'd in ranges through the air, Spotless as snow, and countless as they're... | |
 | Robert Bloomfield - Pastoral poetry, English - 1802 - 186 pages
...iii. 28. And so I think certainly is that, 'Till Folly's wages, wounds and thorns, they reap, III. 37. But the most remarkable of all, and where I had no expectation of finding a similitude, is in neat the close of the Winter. Far yet above these wafted clouds are seen (In a remoter sky yet more... | |
 | Robert Bloomfield - 1803 - 188 pages
...28. — And so I think certainly is that, Till Folly's wages, wounds and thorns, they reap. III. 37. But the most remarkable of all, and where I had no...finding a similitude, is in near the close of the Waiter. For yet above these wafted clouds are seen (In a remoter sky yet more serene) Others, detach'd... | |
 | Robert Bloomfield - 1803 - 192 pages
...I think certainly is that, 'Till Folly'« wages, wounds and thorns, they reap. I". 37 But the moft remarkable of all, and where I had no expectation of finding a similitude, is in, n««r the close of the W,nter. Far yet above these w«fted clouds are icea (In a remoter sky yet more... | |
 | Physics - 1803 - 922 pages
...following passage is beautifully descriptive of the appearance of this modification by moonlight : For yet above these wafted clouds are seen (In a remoter sky, still more serene) Others, detached in ranges through the air, Spotless as snow, and countless as they're fair; Scatter'd immensely... | |
 | Robert Bloomfield - 1815 - 166 pages
...Prov. iii. 28.—And so I think certainly is that, Till folly's wages, wounds and thorns, they reap. But the most remarkable of all, and where I had no expectation of finding a similitude, is near the close of the Jointer. Far yet above these wafted clouds are seen (In a remoter sky, still... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 pages
...eye, Passing the source of light ; and thence away, Succeeded quick by brighter still than they. For yet above these wafted clouds are seen (In a remoter sky, still more serene) Others, detached in ranges thro' the air, Sootiest at snow, and countless as they're fair ; Scattered immense!;/... | |
 | Classical philology - 1819 - 406 pages
...velcirrostratiaccipienda; sunt. Decirrocumulis vulgo oviculis in Germania dictis noster Bloomfield habet locum. " Far yet above these wafted clouds are seen, In a remoter sky still more serene, . Others detached in ranges through the air, Spotless as snow and countless as they're fair; Scattered immensely... | |
 | Classical philology - 1819 - 404 pages
...accipiendae sunt. De cirrocunmlis vulgo oviculis in Germania dictis noster Bloomfield liabet locum. " Far yet above these wafted clouds are seen, In a remoter sky still more serene, Others detached in ranges through the air, Spotless as snow and countless as they're fair; Scattered immensely... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1822 - 440 pages
...beautiful appearance of these clouds, with a moonlight evening, has been aptly described by Bloomfield: Far yet above these wafted clouds are seen, • $ In a remoter sky, still more serene, Others detached in ranges through the air, Spotless as snow, and countless as they 're fair; Scattered immensely... | |
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