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" Or roll the planets through the boundless sky. Some less refined, beneath the moon's pale light, Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night, Or suck the mists in grosser air below, Or dip their pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on... "
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself ... - Page 294
by Alexander Pope - 1824
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir, Critical ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...spheres, and various tasks assign'd By laws eternal to the aerial kind. Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask and whiten in the blaze of day : Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky : so Some, less refined, beneath...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir, Critical ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...spheres, and various tasks assign'd By laws eternal to the aerial kind. Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask and whiten in the blaze of day : Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky : so Some, less refined, beneath...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...spheres, and various tasks assign'd By laws eternal to the aSrial kind. Some in the fields of purest ether play, , And bask and whiten in the blaze of day ; Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky. Some, less refined, beneath...
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Works ...

Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...various tasks assign'd By law eternal to th' aerial kind : Some in the fields of purest aether pla}', And bask and whiten in the blaze of day; Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky ; Some, less refin'd, beneath...
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Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author

Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...various taska assign'd By law's eternal to tlie ai-rial kind, feome in the fields of purest ether plaj And bask and whiten in the blaze of day \ Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky ; Some, less reSned, beneath...
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A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English ..., Volume 2

George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 pages
...spheres and various tasks assigned By laws eternal to the aerial kind. Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask and whiten in the blaze of day ; Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky ; Some, less refined, beneath...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 36

Henry Allon - 1862 - 512 pages
...their occupations, ho described them in a Tery prosaic parody on Pope's lines on the fairies : — ' Some in the fields of purest tether play, And bask...whiten in the blaze of day ; Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky ; Some, less refined, beneath...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...spheres, and various tasks assign'd By laws eternal to the aerial kind. Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask and whiten in the blaze of day; Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky: Some, less refined, beneath...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1863 - 348 pages
...spheres, and various tasks assign'd By laws eternal to th' aerial kind. Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask and whiten in the blaze of day : Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky : Some, less refin'd, beneath...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 58

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1863 - 552 pages
...them in a very prosaic parody ou Pope's lines on the fairies : " Some in the fields of purest ether play, And bask and whiten in the blaze of day ; Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky ; Some, less refined, beneath...
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