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" That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. "
The Pleasures of Memory - Page 117
by Samuel Rogers - 1793 - 124 pages
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. A Wish. That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere And guides the planets in their course. To a Tear. *...
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The Lovers' Dictionary: A Poetical Treasury of Lovers' Thoughts, Fancies ...

J. H. - English poetry - 1867 - 860 pages
...poet's theme In every clime, in every age, Thou charm 'st in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic page. That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. Samuel Rogers....
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Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Specimens of Vers de ...

Frederick Locker-Lampson - Anthologies - 1867 - 376 pages
...theme, In every clime, in every age ; Thou charm'st in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic page. That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. Samuel Rogers,...
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The art of teaching young minds to observe and think

John Gill (of the Normal college, Cheltenham.) - 1872 - 170 pages
...account for it ? Notice also dew drops, globules of water, shot. What form do they take ? How is this ? " That very law which moulds a tear, . And bids it trickle from its source— That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course." 4. Attraction...
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Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...theme, In every clime, in every age ; Thou charm' st in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic isclose, No sunbeam enters, and no zephyr blows, He treads, nnemulous source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. Samuel Rogers.—...
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Thanksgiving: Memories of the Day: Helps to the Habit

William Adams - Thanksgiving Day - 1873 - 392 pages
...a thousand tunes to pearls and diamonds ? Did not Rogers give us a fine thought when he wrote — " That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course." Has not the...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...before." — Notes and Que, ries, T,d Ser. xp 404, and cf. Seneca, Epist. 63. 16. [Rogers continued. That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere And guides the planets in their course. To a Tear. She...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...theme, In every clime, in every age ; Thou charm'st in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic page. That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. SAMUEL ROGERS...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...sees no more, Loved and still loves, — not dead, but gone before,2 — He gathers round him. Ibid. That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere And guides the planets in their course. To a Tear. She...
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The National quarterly review, ed. by E.I. Sears

Edward Isidore Sears - 1875 - 418 pages
...should, perhaps, be ashamed of our emotion in taking leave, thus hurriedly, of our departed friend, but " That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from ita source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their coarse." APPENDIX...
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