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... bright are not so distant as the fainter ones . On a clear night we see about 3000 stars at once , but they are almost innumerable in reality . Even the number visible with telescopes is beyond all counting ; roughly speaking , with a ...
... bright are not so distant as the fainter ones . On a clear night we see about 3000 stars at once , but they are almost innumerable in reality . Even the number visible with telescopes is beyond all counting ; roughly speaking , with a ...
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... Bright patches in the sky like a shining mist of definite size are called nebulae , whether they are large or small , or resolvable into stars by telescopes or not . The telescope of Lord Rosse has resolved a great many nebulae into ...
... Bright patches in the sky like a shining mist of definite size are called nebulae , whether they are large or small , or resolvable into stars by telescopes or not . The telescope of Lord Rosse has resolved a great many nebulae into ...
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... bright , like the Pole star , or a Centauri , are said to be of the 2nd , and so on to the sixth . The se divisions however are quite arbitrary . The stars appear always in the same relative positions . This fact was known to the ...
... bright , like the Pole star , or a Centauri , are said to be of the 2nd , and so on to the sixth . The se divisions however are quite arbitrary . The stars appear always in the same relative positions . This fact was known to the ...
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... bright green stems surrounded by coronals of richly verdant leaves , and sur- mounted in May by beautiful little clusters of blossom . The small flowers , white , or slightly tinged with pink , seem firm and compact as if cut out of wax ...
... bright green stems surrounded by coronals of richly verdant leaves , and sur- mounted in May by beautiful little clusters of blossom . The small flowers , white , or slightly tinged with pink , seem firm and compact as if cut out of wax ...
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... bright green leaves of the Garlic or Ramsons , ( Allium ursinum ) , which at a first glance may be mistaken for the foliage of the Lily - of - the - Valley ; but the strong odour of the plant will soon remind you of the presence of ...
... bright green leaves of the Garlic or Ramsons , ( Allium ursinum ) , which at a first glance may be mistaken for the foliage of the Lily - of - the - Valley ; but the strong odour of the plant will soon remind you of the presence of ...
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Page 14 - Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture: she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line. Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
Page 9 - A well there is in the west country, And a clearer one never was seen ; There is not a wife in the west country But has heard of the well of St. Keyne.
Page 11 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page xi - Slawata, a Bohemian Baron, had letters to present to her ; and she, after pulling off her Glove, gave him her right Hand to kiss, sparkling with Rings and Jewels, a Mark of particular Favour : Wherever she turned her Face, as she was going along, everybody fell down on their knees.
Page x - Her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it, till they marry ; and she had on a necklace, of exceeding fine jewels ; her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor low; her air was 1 He probably means rushes. stately ; her manner of speaking mild and obliging.
Page x - English fashion, strewed with hay, through which the queen commonly passes in her way to chapel. At the door stood a gentleman dressed in velvet, with a gold chain, whose office was to introduce to the queen any person of distinction that came to wait on her. It was Sunday, when there is usually the greatest attendance of nobility. In the same hall were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, a great number of...
Page xi - Then came two others, one with the rod again, the other with a salt-cellar, a plate, and bread ; when they had kneeled, as the others had done, and placed what was brought upon the table, they too retired, with the same ceremonies performed by the first. At last came an unmarried lady, (we...
Page xi - When they had waited there a little while the Yeomen of the Guard entered, bare-headed, clothed in scarlet, with a golden rose upon their backs, bringing in at each turn a course of...
Page 23 - ... them; and that these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Page xi - A gentleman entered the room bearing a rod, and along with him another who had a table-cloth, which, after they had both kneeled three times with the utmost veneration, he spread upon the table, and, after kneeling again, they both retired. Then came two others, one with the rod again, the other with a...