 | 1859 - 1128 pages
...eyes have been clarified by that power which enables him to look beyond the visible ; until — ' He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eye-ball pour the day,' high poetry is simply and merely unintelligible." In like manner there is a pre-requisite to the comprehension... | |
 | John Ellis - 1886 - 328 pages
...son. Swift fly the years, and rise the expected morn, O spring to light I auspicious babe, be born. He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day ; *Tis he the obstructed paths of sound shall clear, And bid new music charm the unfolding. ear. The... | |
 | John Ellis - 1886 - 304 pages
...and rise the expected morn, O spring to light I auspicious babe, be born. He from thick films Bhall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day; 'Tis he the obstructed paths of sound shall clear, And bid new music charm the unfolding ear. The dumb... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 pages
...The Saviour comes ! by ancient bards foretold • Hear him, ye deaf, and all ye blind, behold ! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day : 'Tis he the obstructed paths of sound shall clear, And bid new music charm the unfolding ear : The... | |
 | William A. Campbell - 1890 - 514 pages
...way ! The Saviour comes ! by ancient bards foretold : Hear Him, ye deaf: and all ye blind, behold! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day : 'Tis He the obstructed paths of sound shall clear, And bid new music charm the unfolding ear: The... | |
 | Nathaniel Judson Burton - 1888 - 656 pages
...by ancient bards foretold : Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold ! He from thick films will purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eye-ball pour the day." And so the blind people began to see and to foresee. Dimly on their sad horizon broke the faint day.... | |
 | 1889 - 466 pages
...! The Saviour comes ! by ancient bards foretold : Hear Him, ye deaf ! and all ye blind, behold ! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eye-ball pour the day. 'Tis He the obstructed paths of sound shall clear And bid new music charm the unfolding ear : The dumb... | |
 | Robert Ethol Welsh, Frederick George Edwards - 1889 - 378 pages
...was borrowed from Pope's lines on the Messiah : " Hear Him, ye deaf; and, all ye blind, behold: He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day." The hymn — " O happy day that fixed my choice ! " is, in some of the Church of England Hymnals, used... | |
 | 1892 - 448 pages
...of one that was born blind." It has never been in the power of any save ONE " From the thick film to purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day." But what can be done, what, thank God, is being done, is to call forth the self-reliance, the marvellous... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 pages
...way; The Saviour comes ! by ancient bards foretold ! Hear him, ye deaf, and all ye blind, behold ! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day: "Tis he the obstructed paths of sound shall clear, And bid new music charm the unfolding ear : The... | |
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Saviour comes ! by ancient bards foretold ! Hear Him, ye deaf; and all ye blind, behold ! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day: 'Tis he the obstructed paths of sound shall clear, And bid new music charm... 
