 To God's eternal house direct the way; A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear, Seen in the galaxy, that milky way, Which nightly, as a circling zone, thou seest Powder'd with stars.  The Guide to Knowledge - Page 36edited by - 1833Full view - About this book
 | George Frederick Chambers - 1895 - 192 pages
...sufficiently shown by Milton's well-known description of it {Paradise Lost, bk. vii. v. 577-81) as — " A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear,— Seen in the Galaxy, that Milky Way Which nightly, as a circling zone, thou... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1895 - 552 pages
...open to the Thunderer's abode." And Milton, in his " Paradise Lost," alludes to it in these lines : " A broad and ample road whose dust is gold, And pavement stars, as stars to us appear ; Seen in the galaxy that Milky Way, Like to a circling zone powdered with stars."... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1896 - 302 pages
...flow'r." " Now Morn her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl." " A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way, Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest... | |
 | Stephen Humphreys Villiers Gurteen - 1896 - 536 pages
...Universe and leading down through the \ ten Spheres to Earth ;\ or as Milton describes it later on, A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear Seen in the Galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pages
...MILTON. Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries Officious ; but to thee, earth's habitant. MILTON. A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear, Seen in the galaxy. MILTON. Unmuffle, ye faint stars; and thou, pale moon,... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea. e. BULWEB-LYTTON — When Stars are in the Quiet Skies. HALL — GREGORY'S Life of Hall. /. MILTON— Parading Lout. Bk. VII. L. 577. And made the stars, And set them in the firmament of heav'n,... | |
 | 1898 - 1146 pages
...to time, and the soil enriched and kept free from weeds, it is an epitome, a compendium of beauty. A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear, Seen in the galaxy. It brings forth out of its treasures things new and old,... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1900 - 516 pages
...of rhetoric frequently throb with sublimity. Thus, the Milky Way is spoken of as the royal highway to heaven : — " A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars." When Death and Satan meet, Milton wishes the horror of the scene to manifest something of the sublime.... | |
 | Simon Newcomb - 1901 - 362 pages
...this rule does not apply to the clusters of the galaxy. CHAPTER XVII THE STRUCTURE OF THE MILKY WAY A broad and ample road whose dust is gold. And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest... | |
 | Simon Newcomb - 1901 - 368 pages
...this rule does not apply to the clusters of the galaxy. CHAPTER XVII THE STRUCTURE OF THE MILKY WAY A broad and ample road whose dust is gold. And pavement stars, as stars to tl1ee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest... | |
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