 ... we were never wearied with admiring, every night, the beauty of the southern sky, which, as we advanced towards the south, opened new constellations to our view. We feel an indescribable sensation, when, on approaching the equator, and particularly...  A Visit to Australia and Its Gold Regions - Page 10by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1853 - 202 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 486 pages
...sensation, when, on approaching the equator, and particularly on passing from one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars, which we have contemplated from...separated from his country, than the aspect of an unknown firmament The grouping of the stars of the first magnitude, some scattered nebulae, rivalling in splendor... | |
 | Henry Morris Myers, Philip Van Ness Myers - Honduras - 1871 - 366 pages
...visible in the distance, and a strange, starlit sky above us. "Nothing," truthfully says Humboldt, " awakens in the traveller a livelier remembrance of...separated from his country, than the aspect of an unknown firmament." He beholds a new heaven as well as a new earth. He traces the stars and beautiful constellations... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 466 pages
...from one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars, whieh we have eontemplated from our infaney, progressively sink, and finally disappear. Nothing awakens in the traveller a livelier remembranee of the immense distanee by whieh he is separated from his eountry, than the aspeet of an... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Astronomy - 1892 - 490 pages
...sensation, when, on approaching the equator, and particularly on passing from one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars which we have contemplated from...separated from his country, than the aspect of an unknown firmament. The grouping of the stars of the first magnitude, some scattered nebulae rivalling in splendour... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1893 - 844 pages
...sensation, when, on approaching the equator, and particularly on passing from one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars, which we have contemplated from...separated from his country, than the aspect of an unknown firmament. The grouping of the stars of the first magnitude, some scattered nebulce, rivalling in splendour... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Heaven - 1895 - 870 pages
...sensation, when, oa approaching the equator, and partiallaFly on passing from one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars, which we have contemplated from...the immense distance by which he is separated from hii country, than the aspect of an unknown firmament. The grouping of the stars of the first magnitude,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1904 - 524 pages
...sensation, when, on approaching the equator, and particularly on passing from one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars, which we have contemplated from...separated from his country than the aspect of an unknown firmament. The grouping of the stars of the first magnitude, some scattered nebula?, rivalling in splendor... | |
 | Aaron Sachs - Environmentalism - 2007 - 510 pages
...came to realize how little he would be able to count on during this trip, how little he actually knew. "Nothing awakens in the traveller a livelier remembrance...distance by which he is separated from his country," he noted, "than the aspect of an unknown firmament." As the winds grew calmer and the heat more oppressive,... | |
 | Aaron Sachs - History - 2007 - 516 pages
...came to realize how little he would be able to count on during this trip, how little he actually knew. "Nothing awakens in the traveller a livelier remembrance...distance by which he is separated from his country," he noted, "than the aspect of an unknown firmament." As the winds grew calmer and the heat more oppressive,... | |
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