 WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in...  Darwin, Divinity, And The Dance Of The Cosmos: An Ecological Christianity - Page 23by Bruce Sanguin - 256 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Joseph Smith Auerbach - 1914 - 344 pages
...spirit if not the letter of poetry in these lines from the "Leaves of Grass": When I heard the learned astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged...astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lectureroom, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wandered... | |
 | Burt Estes Howard - Sermons, American - 1914 - 152 pages
...are fed with them till our soul is sick, and we feel as did Whitman : — " When I heard the learned astronomer, When the proofs, the figures were ranged...astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising, and gliding out, I wandered... | |
 | William Timothy Call - 1914 - 78 pages
...photographic effect, disclosing a common feeling that any one might suppose peculiar to oneself. When I heard the learn'd astronomer; When the proofs, the figures,...columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured... | |
 | William Timothy Call - 1914 - 72 pages
...When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I,...astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander'd... | |
 | Nature - 1914 - 424 pages
...is the soul's haven to have felt. George Meredith WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN D ASTRONOMER WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer; When the proofs, the figures,...columns before me ; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them ; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured... | |
 | Nature - 1914 - 428 pages
...When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me ; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams. to add, divide, and measure them ; When...astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired ano sick ; Till rising and gliding out, I wander'd... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - American literature - 1915 - 480 pages
...why. Such a paragraph is worth a chapter of analysis, and so also is a poem like this : When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures,...astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander'... | |
 | William Louis Poteat - Religion and science - 1915 - 168 pages
...by dissecting it. The feeling is finely delineated more recently by Walt Whitman: — When I heard the learn'd astronomer; When the proofs, the figures,...astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room; How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out, I wandered... | |
 | Walt Whitman - United States - 1916 - 388 pages
...have its main purport in what will yet be supplied. WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures,...astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander'd... | |
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