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2nd magnitude Aldebaran Algol Andromeda angle appear Arcturus Argûs astronomers Auriga binary stars Boötes bright lines bright star brighter brightest star brilliancy called Capella catalogue celestial objects centre century Ceti Cetus chapter chromosphere circle cluster colours comets considered conspicuous stars constellations Cygni displacement distance double stars earth fact Geminorum heavens Herculis Huggins Hyades hydrogen idea instruments interval latitude Libræ light Lyræ mass meridian Milky naked eye names nebula night Nova number of stars Observatory observer Ophiuchus orbit Orion pairs of stars parallax passing perhaps period Persei planets Pleiades Pole Star Pollux position proper motion recognised regarded Regulus remarkable right ascension Scorpii Secchi seconds of arc seems seen Sir John Herschel Sirius solar spectra spectroscope spectrum Spica star's stellar telescope temporary stars tion Ursa Major Ursa Majoris variable stars Virginis visible whilst words zodiac
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Page 78 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Page 35 - And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Page 85 - The Pleiads, Hyads, with the northern team; And great Orion's more refulgent beam; To which, around the axle of the sky, The Bear, revolving, points his golden eye, Still shines exalted on th' ethereal plain, Nor bathes his blazing forehead in the main.
Page 32 - Canst thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or canst thou guide the Bear with her train?
Page 79 - Doubt thou the stars are fire ; Doubt that the sun doth move ; Doubt truth to be a liar ; But never doubt I love.
Page 111 - To God's eternal house direct the way; A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly, as a circling zone, thou seest Powder'd with stars.
Page 81 - Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
Page 82 - Thro' cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing : My mood is changed, for it fell at a time of year When the face of night is fair on the dewy downs, And the shining daffodil dies, and the Charioteer And starry Gemini hang like glorious crowns Over Orion's grave low down in the west...
Page 116 - ... a stratum, of which the thickness is small, in comparison with its length and breadth ; and in which the earth occupies a place somewhere about the middle of its thickness, and near the point where it subdivides into two principal laminae, inclined at a small angle to each other.
Page 82 - Chaldean shepherds, ranging trackless fields, Beneath the concave of unclouded skies Spread like a sea, in boundless solitude, Looked on the polar star, as on a guide And guardian of their course, that never closed His steadfast eye.