Lunar Science: Ancient and ModernS. Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Company, 1886 - 89 pages |
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admiration ALPINE Anaxagoras Anaxi ancients appear astronomer beauty Berosus Book of Joshua called celestial cloth gilt clouds CO.'S LIST Crown 8vo dark Demy 8vo Divine earth ecliptic Edition Empedocles entomologist Eratosthenes Flower-lore full moon globe glory Goddess excellently bright Greeks harvest moon heaven heaven's gate heavenly bodies Hebrews Heraclitus horizon Illustrated infinite inhabitants Joshua libration light lunar mass measure months moon when birds moon's distance moon's motions mountains Nasmyth and Carpenter nature night night unto night node Norman Lockyer ocean orange parallax Parmenides Persian planet poetic PROF Pythagoras revolution rise round the earth Sanskrit says seas shadow shine silver sings Soahili SONNENSCHEIN & CO.'S spheres sublime sun and moon surface SWAN SONNENSCHEIN tail Talmud telescope terrestrial thee thou thought the moon tion twelve moons vapour W. F. KIRBY Brit whole woodcuts Xenophanes yojana YOUNG COLLECTOR'S HANDBOOK
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Page 44 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess, excellently bright! Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose: Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess, excellently bright!
Page 5 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 38 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray 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...
Page 77 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 57 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries ? Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case ; I read it in thy looks ; thy languisht grace To me, that feel the like, thy state descries...
Page 51 - mong oldest trees Feel palpitations when thou lookest in : O Moon ! old boughs lisp forth a holier din The while they feel thine airy fellowship. Thou dost bless everywhere, with silver lip Kissing dead things to life.
Page 45 - TO THE MOON ART thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth...
Page 17 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night — Sunset divides the sky with her — a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be Melted to one vast Iris of the West, Where the day joins the past Eternity; While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island...
Page 8 - DAUGHTER of heaven, fair art thou! the silence of thy face is pleasant! Thou comest forth in loveliness. The stars attend thy blue course in the east. The clouds rejoice in thy presence, O moon!