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" How distant some of these nocturnal suns ! So distant (says the sage) 'twere not absurd To doubt if beams, set out at Nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world, Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. "
Of optics, magnetism, electricity, & galvanism - Page 11
by Jeremiah Joyce - 1815
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 87-88

John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 470 pages
...where men and angels meet, Eat the same manna, mingle earth and heav'u. >z3£ How distant some of these nocturnal suns ! So distant, (says the sage) 'twere...Nature's birth, Are yet arriv'd at this so foreign world, Tho' nothing half so rapid as their flight, 1130 An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for...
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The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts, Volume 3

Edward Young - 1802 - 418 pages
...where men, and angels, meet, Eat the same Manna, mingle earth, and heaven. How distant some of these nocturnal suns ! So distant (says the sage) 'twere not absurd To doubt, if beams, set out at Natures birth, Are yet arriv'd at this so foreign world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight....
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Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality

Edward Young - 1802 - 416 pages
...where men, and angels, meet, Eat the same Manna, mingle earth, and heaven. How distant some of these nocturnal suns ! So distant (says the sage) 'twere not absurd To doubt, if beams, set out at \a/urc'n birth, Are yet arriv'd at this so foreign world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight....
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The Poetical Works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young: With the Life of ..., Volume 2

Edward Young - English poetry - 1805 - 228 pages
...this where men and angels meet, Eat the same manna, mingle earth and heav'n. How distant some of these nocturnal suns ! So distant, (says the sage) 'twere...Nature's birth, Are yet arriv'd at this so foreign world, Tho' nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever....
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The Poetical Works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young: With the Life of ..., Volume 2

Edward Young - English poetry - 1805 - 232 pages
...mingle earth and heuv'n. How distant some of these nocturnal suns ! So distant, (says the sage) 'twej-e not absurd To doubt if beams, set out at Nature's birth, Are yet arriv'd at this so foreign world, Tho" nothing half so rapid us their flight. An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever....
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The Complaint, Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

Edward Young - 1805 - 284 pages
...angels mett, Eat the same manna, mingle earth and heav'n. How distant tome ofthese nocturnal suns! 0 distant (says the sage,*) 'twere not absurd To doubt, if beams, set out at nature's birth, Lre yet arrivM at this so foreign world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. Ln eye of awe...
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Night Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality

Edward Young - English poetry - 1810 - 278 pages
...where men, and angels, meet, Eat the same manna, mingle earth, and heav'n, How distant some of these nocturnal suns ! So distant (says the sage*) 'twere...nature's birth, Are yet arriv'd at this so foreign world ; Tho' nothing half so vapid as their flight. An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 13

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 558 pages
...the plan ! A hanquet, this, where men and angels meet, Eat the same manna, mingle Earth and Heaven. How distant some of the nocturnal suns! So distant (says the sage), 't were not ahsurd To douht, if heams, set out at Nature's hirth, Arc yet arriv'd at this so foreign...
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The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts

Edward Young - 1813 - 380 pages
...this, where men and angels meet, Eat the same manna, mingle earth and heaven. How distant some of these nocturnal suns ! So distant (says the sage) 'twere...doubt, if beams, set out at nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye of awe and...
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The poetical works of Edward Young. Collated with the best eds.: by T. Park

Edward Young - English poetry - 1813 - 324 pages
...this, where men and angels meet, Eat the same manna, mingle earth and Heaven. How distant some of these nocturnal suns ! So distant (says the sage) 'twere not absurd To doubt if beams, set out at Nature's hirth, Are yef arriv'd at this so foreign world, Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye...
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