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... beautiful twinkling , and appear more brilliant than they are to the naked eye . The higher of the bright and steady - lighted stars , is called Jupiter ; the name of the other is Venus , and it will set very soon . Try to remember what ...
... beautiful twinkling , and appear more brilliant than they are to the naked eye . The higher of the bright and steady - lighted stars , is called Jupiter ; the name of the other is Venus , and it will set very soon . Try to remember what ...
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... acquainted with the stars , I felt an apprehension incon- ceivable to those who love a sedentary life : I could not bear to renounce the idea of beholding the beautiful constellations near the southern pole , and I 34 EXTRACT FROM.
... acquainted with the stars , I felt an apprehension incon- ceivable to those who love a sedentary life : I could not bear to renounce the idea of beholding the beautiful constellations near the southern pole , and I 34 EXTRACT FROM.
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First steps. the beautiful constellations near the southern pole , and I could never raise my eyes towards the starry vault without thinking of the Cross of the south . The pleasure which we felt on first dis- covering this beautiful ...
First steps. the beautiful constellations near the southern pole , and I could never raise my eyes towards the starry vault without thinking of the Cross of the south . The pleasure which we felt on first dis- covering this beautiful ...
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First steps. and I often recollect with pleasure those beautiful lines which a French poet is said to have spoken extempore on a fine starlight night : - " Tous ces vastes pays d'azur et de lumiere Tirés du sein du vide , et formés sans ...
First steps. and I often recollect with pleasure those beautiful lines which a French poet is said to have spoken extempore on a fine starlight night : - " Tous ces vastes pays d'azur et de lumiere Tirés du sein du vide , et formés sans ...
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... you speak of a very beautiful comet that appeared some years ago . MOTHER . I dare say you do . It was in the year 1811 , about the beginning of September ; and the same comet continued to be visible till near the end of COMETS . 77.
... you speak of a very beautiful comet that appeared some years ago . MOTHER . I dare say you do . It was in the year 1811 , about the beginning of September ; and the same comet continued to be visible till near the end of COMETS . 77.
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Page 233 - Oxford ! one of which fell with him, Unwilling to outlive the good that did it ; The other, though unfinish'd, yet so famous, So excellent in art, and still so rising, That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue. His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him ; For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little : And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, — he died fearing God.
Page 75 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Page 53 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 232 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
Page 35 - Aries (the Ram), Taurus (the Bull) Gemini (the Twins), Cancer (the Crab), Leo (the Lion), Virgo (the Virgin), Libra (the Scales), Scorpio (the Scorpion), Sagittarius (the Archer), Capricornus (the Goat), Aquarius (the Water-bearer), and Pisces (the Fishes).
Page 44 - ... upon it, and crushed it all to pieces ; which so provoked my father, that he was almost ready to beat the man, and discouraged me so much that I never attempted to make such another machine again, especially as I was thoroughly convinced I could never make one that would be of any real use.
Page 19 - These then, though unbeheld in deep of night, Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none That heav'n would want spectators, GOD want praise: Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep...
Page 46 - I was sent for by other ladies in the country, and began to think myself growing very rich by the money I got for such drawings ; out of which I had the pleasure of occasionally supplying the wants of my poor father.
Page 233 - So went to bed ; where eagerly his sickness Pursu'd him still : and, three nights after this, About the hour of eight, (which he himself Foretold should be his last,) full of repentance, Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows, He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.
Page 41 - I was in pursuit only of these matters, and I was rather too young and weak for hard labour, he put me out to a neighbour to keep sheep, which I continued to do for some years ; and in that time I began to study the stars in the night.