| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English poetry - 1777 - 156 pages
...delighted awe Approach your burning confines. Seiz'd in thought, On fancy's wild and roving wing I fail, From the green borders of the peopled earth, And the pale moon, her duteous fair attendant ; From folitary Mars ; from the vaft orb Of Jupiter, whofe huge gigantic bulk Dances in ether like the lighteft... | |
| Thomas Percival - 1781 - 330 pages
...fcience is thus opened to our view! — Seiz'd in thought, On fancy's wild and roving wing I fail, From the green borders of the peopled earth, And the pale moon, her duteous fair attendant; From folitary Mars; from the vaft orb Of Jupiter, whofe huge gigantic bulk Dances in ether like the lighteft... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...delighted awe Approach your burning confines. SeizVl in On fancy's wild and roving wing I fail [thought, folkary Mars ; from the vaft orb Of Jupiter, whofe huge gigantic bulk Dances in ether like the lighted... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1792 - 442 pages
...delighted awe Approach your burning confines. Seiz'd in thought, On fancy's wild and roving wing I fail, From the green borders of the peopled earth, And the pale moon, her duteous fair attendant; From folitary Mars ; from the vaft orb Of Jupiter, whofe huge gigantic bulk Dances in ether like the lighteft... | |
| James Roach - English poetry - 1794 - 268 pages
...delighted awe Approach your burning confines. Seiz'd in thought, On fancy's wild and roving wing I fail From the green borders of the peopled earth,. And the pale moon, her duteous fair attendant ; From folitary Mars ; from the vaft orb Of Jupiter, wbofe huge gigantic bulk Dancas Dances in ether like... | |
| John Wesley - Biography - 1794 - 738 pages
...awe Approach your burning confines. Seiz'd in thought, On fancy's wild and roving' wing I fail Prom the green borders of the peopled earth, And the pale Moon, her duteous fair attendant ; From folitary Mars ; from the vaft orb Of Jupiter, whofe huge gigantic bulk Dances in ether like the lighteft... | |
| 1798 - 432 pages
...elegance of her compofitions : . ......... ... Seiz'd in thought, On fancy's wild and roving wing I fail, From the green borders of the peopled Earth, And the pale Moon, her duteous fair attendant ; From Colitary Mars ; from the vail orb Of Jupiter, whofe huge gigantic bulk, Dances in ether like the lighreft... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...Approach your'aurning confines!— — Seiz'd in Oatmcy't wild and roving wing I fail [thought. From tbe green borders of the peopled earth, And the pale moon, her duteous fair attendant ' From foUtsry Man; from the vaft orb Ofjupittr, whole huge gigantic bulk Dances in ether like the lighteit... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...fancy's wild and roving wing I sail [thought. From the green borders of the peopleu earth, And tlie hulk Dances in ether like the lightest leaf ; To the dim verge, the suburbs of the system, Where cheerless... | |
| William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - Education - 1815 - 598 pages
...it is only by comparison that our accomplished poetess, Mrs. Barbauld, speaks of his situation, as the dim verge, the suburbs of the system, Where cheerless Saturn, 'midst his wat'ry moons, Girt with a lucid zone, majestic sits. When Saturn is examined with a good telescope,... | |
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