 | Dionysius Lardner - Astronomy - 1867 - 642 pages
...Meanwhile it may be considered as demonstrated that it consists of myriads of stars clustered together : " A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold. And pavement stars, as stare to us appear, Seen in the galaxy, that Milky Way, Like to a circling zone powdered with stars."—... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1868 - 632 pages
...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, as stars to thee appear, Seen in the galaxy, that milky way, Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd... | |
 | Edwin Dunkin - 1869 - 380 pages
...poet Milton was not writing pure imaginative thoughts when he explained this celestial girdle as — " 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... | |
 | James Rattray - Australia - 1870 - 266 pages
...bending up her finger into a vertical position, pointed to the Galaxy or Milky Way in the zenith— A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold And pavement...Way Like to a circling zone, powdered with stars. The number in this cluster, he said, is computed to be /about 20,000,000, of which our sun is said... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 352 pages
...through Heav'n, That open'd wide her blazing portals, led 575 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 580 Powder'd... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 508 pages
...seems to have been entertained by Aristotle Avicenna, and Ptolemy." Milton, Par. Lost, VII. 577 : — " 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 Powdered... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 pages
...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, as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1874 - 362 pages
...the road Lies open to the Thunderer's abode." Milton alludes to this in the following linea :— " 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 at» a circling zone, them seeit Powdered... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 pages
...through heaven, That open'd wide her blazing portals, led 675 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 680... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 pages
...through hoav'n, • 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, as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd... | |
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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... 
