 | Balfour Stewart - 1875 - 244 pages
...gods the poet speaks when he says — " For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are...flaming towns, and sinking ships and praying hands." The ancient Roman poet Lucretius, in his well-known poem " De Rerum Natura," has beautifully interpreted... | |
 | Balfour Stewart - 1875 - 270 pages
...gods the poet speaks when he says — " For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are...flaming towns, and sinking ships and praying hands." The ancient Eoman poet Lucretius, in his well-known poem " De Eerum Natura," has beautifully interpreted... | |
 | Balfour Stewart, Peter Guthrie Tait - Cosmology - 1875 - 280 pages
...gods the poet speaks when he says — " For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurl'd Par below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly...flaming towns, and sinking ships and praying hands." The ancient Roman poet Lucretius, in his well-known poem " De Rerum Natura," has beautifully interpreted... | |
 | Balfour Stewart, Peter Guthrie Tait - History - 1875 - 228 pages
...nectar, and the hoats are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Bound their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world...flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands." The ancient Roman poet Lucretius, in his well-known poem " De Rerum Natura," has beautifully interpreted... | |
 | Balfour Stewart - Immortality - 1875 - 236 pages
...gods the poet speaks when he says — " For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden howses, girdled with the gleaming world Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Bonnd their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking over... | |
 | Balfour Stewart, Peter Guthrie Tait - Cosmology - 1875 - 274 pages
...such gods the poet speaks when he says — " For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are huiTd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Eound their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world Where they smile in secret, looking over... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 pages
...their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming...and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centered in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong, Like a tale of... | |
 | Balfour Stewart, Peter Guthrie Tait - Immortality - 1876 - 232 pages
...their nectar, and the boats are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming...flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands." The ancient Boman poet Lucretius, in his well-known "poem " De Rerum Natura," has beautifully interpreted... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Chartism - 1876 - 436 pages
...and the clouds are lightly curled * Bound their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world. There they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight...and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hand*. But they smile, they find a music, centred in a doleful song, Steaming up, a lamentation, and... | |
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Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying... 
