Nightly wanderings in the gardens of the sky [revised from contrib. to papers, The People's friend]. |
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abode of living Aldebarran ancients Andromeda animal appear Arcturus astronomers atmosphere Auriga axis Bear beautiful Bernice's Hair betwixt bodies Boötes bright star Canis Major Canis Minor Capella Cassiopeia celestial comets constellations creatures Crux Australis diameter distance earth east fact farther Gemini globe heavens horizon hour hundred immense inhabitants James Nicholson Jupiter known Leo Minor less Libra light and heat magnitude Mars mass matter Mercury meridian meteors midnight miles millions months moon move nearer nearest Neptune night northern number of stars occupied orbit Orion owing pass Pegasus Perseus phenomena photosphere planets Pleiades Plough polar Pole-star position present principal stars R. A. Proctor revolving rising round satellite Saturn Scorpio season seen Sirius solar system solid southern space sphere splendour spots stars forming sun's supposed surface tail Taurus telescope thousand Uranus Ursa Major vapour Vega Venus visible zenith Zodiac ΙΟ
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Page 24 - But hail thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view, O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended...
Page 70 - When I behold this goodly frame, this World Of Heaven and Earth consisting, and compute Their magnitudes ; this Earth, a spot, a grain, An atom, with the firmament compared...
Page 38 - Aries the Ram, Taurus the Bull, Gemini the Twins, Cancer the Crab, Leo the Lion, Virgo the Virgin, Libra the Balance, Scorpio the Scorpion, Sagittarius the Archer, Capricornus the Goat, Aquarius the Waterbearer, and Pisces the Fishes...
Page 70 - Their distance argues, and their swift return Diurnal), merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot, One day and night ; in all their vast survey Useless besides ; reasoning I oft admire, How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions...
Page 69 - Th' Eternal, to prevent such horrid fray,-. Hung forth in Heav'n his golden scales, yet seen Betwixt Astrea and the Scorpion sign, Wherein all things created first he weigh'd, The pendulous round earth with...
Page 11 - Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Page 27 - So sung The glorious train ascending : He through heaven, That open'd wide her blazing portals, led To God's eternal house direct the way, A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars...
Page 62 - End is there none'" the angel solemnly demanded : "Is there indeed no end, and is this the sorrow that kills you?" But no voice answered that he might answer himself. Then the angel threw up his glorious hands toward the heaven of heavens, saying, " End is there none to the universe of God ! Lo, also there is no beginning !
Page 43 - Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
Page 62 - Within were stairs that scaled *.he eternities below; above was below, below was above, to the man stripped of gravitating body: depth was swallowed up in height insurmountable, height was swallowed up in depth unfathomable. Suddenly, as thus they rode from infinite to infinite, suddenly, as thus they...