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 | Henry Duncan (D.D.) - 1847 - 430 頁
...gravitation, of which it has been beautifully said, — ' The very law which moulds a tear, And makes it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.'t The globular figure of the earth, which is the result of this * Bell's Bridgewater Treatise,... | |
 | 1860 - 1246 頁
...in the came source ; they are alike in nature and allied in does the poet say, — >nd. Truly " The very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source ; Thut law preserves the earth a sphere. And guides the planets iu their eour.se." Nor is this all... | |
 | Josiah Moody Fletcher - 1847 - 148 頁
...sage's and the poet'a theme, In every clime, — in every age ; Thou chann'st in fancy's idle dream In reason's philosophic page. That very law which moulds a tear, And hids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 224 頁
...means of defence. Gleig. I, a solitary student, pretend not to much knowledge of the world. Johnson. That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle...a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. Rogers. He himself came up to the Greek camp, attended by a few horsemen and an interpreter. Thirlwall.... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 頁
...to the application of the same mighty principle to the greatest and the least of things : — " The very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its souce, — That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course." — Rogert.... | |
 | George Harris - 1849 - 540 頁
...thereto again the peculiar density of our planet ! Truly, as well as musically, has the poet sung — That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle...earth a sphere And guides the planets in their course. In like manner, one is lost in astonishment at discovering that the same force which keeps the sun... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 328 頁
...reason, to calculate. Or, as Rogers justly observes : — " That very law which moulds a tear And bidi it trickle from its source, That law preserves the...a sphere, And guides the planets in their course." This law is indispensable for the preservation and existence of the present order of things ; and it... | |
 | 1914 - 668 頁
...Rogers' beautiful 'Lines on a Tear.'" He gave the following as their correct form :— The very liw which moulds a tear. And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth its sphere, And guides the planets in their course. The last verse of ' On a Tear,' p. 181?of the beautifully... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1849 - 650 頁
...bespeak a philosophical accuracy of conception rarely traceable in a poet : — ' The very law that moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source : That law preserve» the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course !' All this, I grant, is not... | |
 | 1849 - 654 頁
...bespeak a philosophical accuracy of conception rarely traceable in a poet :— • The very law that moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source : That law pretenes the earth a tphtre, And guides the planet* in their course !' All this, I grant, is not positive... | |
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