 | Thomas Parnell - Irish poetry - 1866 - 324 pages
...Providence's sway : His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul is lost. So when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm nature's...answering colours glow : But if a stone the gentle scene divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken sun,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...Providence's sway ; His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenor of his soul is lost. So, when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm nature's...grow, And skies beneath with answering colours glow ; 90 But, if a stone the gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And glimmering... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...Providence's sway : 10 oa His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul is lost : So, when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm nature's...breast, Down bend the banks, the trees depending grow, 15 And skies beneath with answering colours glow : But if a stone the gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling... | |
 | Leopold Hartley Grindon - Emblems - 1869 - 112 pages
...circles, which, nevertheless, in a few moments disappear. " So when a smooth expanse receives impressed Calm nature's image on its watery breast, Down bend...answering colours glow. But if a stone the gentle scene divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side ; And glimmering fragments of a broken sun,... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1872 - 174 pages
...prospect boast, And all the tenor of his soul is lost. So, when a smooth expanse receives imprest Cafm nature's image on its watery breast, Down bend the...skies beneath with answering colours glow: But, if a storm the gentle sea divide, Swift ruffing circles curl on every side; And glimmering fragments of... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Indiana - 1872 - 382 pages
...Providence's sway\ 5. f " So, when a smooth expanse receives impressed ICalm nature's image on its wat'ry' breast', Down bend the banks', the trees depending grow', And skies beneath with answering colors glow' : But if a stone the gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side ; And... | |
 | Thomas Wright - Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) - 1872 - 568 pages
...Providence's sway : His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul was lost : So when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm nature's image on its wat'ry breast, Down bend the banks, the trees depending grow, And skies beneath with answering colours... | |
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 pages
...Providence's sway ; His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul is lost. So, when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm Nature's image on its wat'ry breast, Down bend the banks, the trees depending grow, And skies beneath with answering colours... | |
 | Thomas Parnell - 1874 - 72 pages
...Providence's sway : 10 His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul is lost. So when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm Nature's image on its watery breast, A life so saintly, and Iran- the employment of his life, quillity so peaceful, would have except when... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
...Providence's sway : His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenor of his soul is lost. So when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm Nature's...trees depending grow, And skies beneath with answering colors glow : But if a stone the gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And... | |
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Seem'd heaven itself, till one suggestion rose; That vice should triumph, virtue vice obey, This sprung some doubt of Providence's sway: His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul is lost. 
