 Here is firm footing ; here is solid rock ! This can support us ; all is sea besides • Sinks under us ; bestorms, and then devours. His hand the good man fastens on the skies, And bids earth roll, nor feels her idle whirl.  The Essays of "George Eliot." - Page 236by George Eliot - 1883 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Young - 1750 - 350 pages
...us ; all is Sea befides ; Sinks under us ; beftorms, and then devours. His Hand the good Man faftens on the Skies, And bids Earth roll, nor feels her idle Whirl. As when a Wretch, from thick, polluted Air, Darknefs, and Stench, and fuffbcating Damps, And Dungeon... | |
 | Edward Young - 1750 - 416 pages
...us ; all is Sea befides ; Sinks under us ; beftorms, and then devours. His Hand the good Man faftens on the Skies, And bids Earth roll, nor feels her idle Whirl. As when a Wretch, from thick, polluted Air, Darknefs, and Stench, and fuffocating Damps, And Dungeon... | |
 | 1802 - 596 pages
...the approach of dissolution, and hail Death, as a welcome messenger. " His band the good man fastens on the skies, " And bids earth roll, nor feels her idle whirl." Youtre. However, human nature is, at best, but human nature, and cannot but be affected in that momentous... | |
 | William Hutchinson - 1795 - 386 pages
...us; all is sea besides; " Sinks under us; bestorms, and then devours" His hand the good man fastens on the skies, " And bids earth roll, nor feels her idle whirl." Tmn/s Nigtt Tlaugltt. IN the earliest ages, after the deluge, in the nations made known to us, the... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 470 pages
...; all is sea besides; Sinks under us; bestorms, and then devours. 560 His hand the good man fastens on the skies, And bids earth roll, nor feels her idle whirl. As when a wretch, frpm thick polluted air, Darkness and stench, and suffocating damps, And dungeon... | |
 | Edward Young - 1798 - 432 pages
...all is sea besides; Sinks under us; bestorms, and then devours. 56*0 His hand the good Man fastens on the skies, And bids Earth roll, nor feels her idle whirl. As when a wretch, from thick, polluted air, Darkness, and stench, and suffocating damps, And dungeon-horrors,... | |
 | Barnaby (Uncle.) - 1799 - 374 pages
...resources thence, and centring our hopes, desires, and affections there." " His hand the good man fastens on the skies. And bids earth roll, nor feels her idle whirl." "The world was not made for you." If we realize this as we ought to do, it will teach us to remember... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 412 pages
...; all is sea besides • Sinks under us ; bestorms, and then devours. His hand the good man fastens on the skies, And bids earth roll, nor feels her idle whirl. As when a wretch, from thick polluted air, Darkness, and stench, and suffocating damps, And dungeon-horrors,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 416 pages
...us; all is sea besides ; Sinks under us; bestorms, and then devours. His hand the good man fastens on the skies, And bids earth roll, nor feels her idle whirl. As when a wretch, from thick polluted air, Darkness, and stench, and suffocating damps, And dungeon-horrors,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 402 pages
...us ; all is sea besides ; Sinks under us; bestorms, and then devours. His hand the good man fastens on the skies, And bids earth roll, nor feels her idle whirl. As when a wretch, from thick polluted air, Darkness, and stench, and suffocating damps, And dungeon-horrors,... | |
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