 | John Milton - 1874 - 758 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 580... | |
 | John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 608 pages
...through Heaven, That opened 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 580 Powdered... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Astronomy - 1875 - 766 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 stars to us appear, Seen in the galaxy, that Milkr Way, Like to a circling zone powdered with stars." — MILTOX. The appearance which this mass... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts. Line 463. Indu'd With sanctity of reason. Line sor. 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1903 - 396 pages
...through Heaven, That opened 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 580 Powdered... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...appear'd The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts. Hue 463. Indu'd With sanctity of reason. 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... | |
 | Edward Irving - Animal intelligence - 1904 - 482 pages
...double, treble, and quadruple stars which revolve around their common centres of gravity. THE GALAXY " A broad and ample road whose dust is gold, And pavement stars." — Milton. The largest and most important structure hi the visible Universe is that nebulous haze... | |
 | John Lowry Adams - Milky Way - 1905 - 76 pages
...in fact, it is as Milton describes: — " ' A broad and ample road whose dust is gold, And pavements stars, as stars to us appear : Seen in the Galaxy...Way, Like to a circling zone, powdered with stars.' " What is exactly meant by the term " Milky Way " has here to be considered. Towards the end of the... | |
 | John Milton - 1905 - 398 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... | |
 | Simon Newcomb - Stars - 1906 - 360 pages
...this rule does not apply to the clusters of the galaxy. CHAPTER XVII THE STRUCTURE OF THE MILKY 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 Powdered... | |
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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... 
