"Empyreal" Quotes from Famous Books
... sing thy force, Or who describe the swiftness of thy course? Soaring through air to find the bright abode, Th' empyreal palace of the thund'ring God, We on thy pinions can surpass the wind, And leave the rolling universe behind: From star to star the mental opticks rove, Measure the skies, and range the realms above. There in one view ... — An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African • Thomas Clarkson
... sailors spring to shore, Two oceans safely past; So happy souls, when life is o'er, Plunge in this empyreal vast. ... — The Christian Year • Rev. John Keble
... over London's naked nose, Women and men; The world is all beneath his ken; He sits above the ball, He seems on Mount Olympus' top, Among the gods, by Jupiter! and lets drop His eyes from the empyreal clouds On mortal crowds. ... — Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury |