| Children's stories, English - 1884 - 478 pages
...six the Southern. As children we used to learn the folkwiis' rhyme to fix them in our memory: — The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab...The Virgin and the Scales. The Scorpion, Archer, and She-goat, Tho man who holds the watering-pot, And Fisli with glittering tails. THE SMUGGLER'S GRAVE.... | |
| Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - Readers - 1889 - 358 pages
...them, Hesiod. SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC. ANONYMOUS. THE Ram, the Bull, the Heavenly Twins, The Crab who near the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and He- Goat, The man who bears the Watering-pot, And Fish with glittering tails. THE CALENDAR. ANONYMOUS.... | |
| Canadian Institute of Surveying - 1890 - 502 pages
...showing the fanciful figures devised by the astrologers to represent these constellations, viz.: "The Ram. the Bull, the Heavenly Twins, And next the Crab,...The Virgin and the Scales, The Scorpion, Archer, and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering pot, The Fish wilh glittering tails." The lecturer concluded... | |
| Samuel Briggs, Nathaniel Ames - Almanacs - 1891 - 514 pages
...ihe Yetrs End- j Dr. Watts, of poetic fame, was moved to sing of " The Ram, the Bull, the heav'nly Twins, And next the Crab, the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and Sea-Goat, The Man that holds the Water-Pot, And Fish with glitt'ring Tails." Almanack makers have largely... | |
| Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick - Astronomy - 1892 - 178 pages
...Goat. Aquarius, or the Water Bearer. Pisces, or the Fishes. Or, as the old English almanac says, "The Ram, the Bull, the Heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales. The Scorpi»n. Archer, and He Goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot, And Fish with glittering scales."... | |
| Education - 1892 - 404 pages
...children to remember them in their order around the heavens. The Ram, the Ball, the Пеатеп1у Twins. And next the Crab, the Lion shines. The Virgin and the Scales. The Scorpion, Archer and He Goat. The Man that bears the watering pot And Fieh with glittering tails. Of, as we generally speak... | |
| Irl Roger Hicks - Almanacs, American - 1897 - 444 pages
...the third magnitude. Parts of Hercules and Norma are also shown, Norma being southeast of Lupus. The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins And next the Crab,...Virgin, and the Scales; The Scorpion, Archer, and Sea-goat, The Man that holds the Water-pot, And Fish with glittering tails. Chamber's Astronomy. .... | |
| Questions and answers - 1894 - 446 pages
...Isaac Watts's works are found the rhymes of the zodiacal signs attributed to him, as follows : The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab,...Virgin, and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and Sea-Goat, The Man who holds the Water-Pot, And Fish, with glittering tails. 6. Who was Euphrosynus... | |
| Sir Richard Gregory - Astronomical geography - 1894 - 126 pages
...names of the constellations which happen to lie along the zodiac are, in old English doggerel :— The Ram, the Bull, the Heavenly Twins, And next the Crab,...Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and He-Goat, The Man that bears the watering-pot And Fish with glittering tails. The origin of these names... | |
| George Frederick Chambers - Astronomy - 1895 - 168 pages
...to a high standard of " poetry," are nevertheless very convenient as an aid to the memory : — The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab,...Virgin, and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and Sea-goat, The Man that holds the -water-pot, And Fish with glitt'ring tails. The account just completed... | |
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