The Story of the Stars: Simply Told for General ReadersD. Appleton, 1895 - 160 páginas |
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The Story of the Stars: Simply Told for General Readers George Frederick Chambers Vista completa - 1895 |
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2nd magnitude Aldebaran Algol Andromeda appears Arcturus Argûs astronomers Auriga binary stars Boötes bright lines bright star brighter brightest star brilliancy called Capella catalogue celestial objects centre century Ceti chapter circle cluster colours comets considered conspicuous stars constellation Coronæ Cygni dark lines displacement distance double stars fact heavens Herculis horizon Huggins Hyades hydrogen idea latitude Libræ light line of sight Lyræ magnitude stars Majoris mass maximum meridian Milky naked eye names nebula night Northern Nova number of stars Observatory observer orbit Orionis pair passing perhaps period Persei planets Pleiades Pole Star Pollux Præsepe proper motion reader recognised regarded Regulus remarkable right ascension Scorpii Secchi seems seen Sir John Herschel Sirius solar South spectra spectroscope spectrum Spica star's stellar Taurus temporary stars tion trapezium Ursa Major variable stars Virginis visible whilst whole words zodiac
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Página 96 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Página 43 - And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Página 97 - I could be well mov'd, if I were as you ; If I could pray to move, prayers would move me : But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd, and resting quality, There is no fellow in the firmament.
Página 99 - Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven, If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you ; for ye are A beauty, and a mystery, and create G In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
Página 40 - Canst thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or canst thou guide the Bear with her train?
Página 129 - 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.
Página 100 - Thro' cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing : My mood is changed, for it fell at a time of year When the face of night is fair on the dewy downs, And the shining daffodil dies, and the Charioteer And starry Gemini hang like glorious crowns Over Orion's grave low down in the west...
Página 9 - Cap. 9, it is enacted that whenever any expression of time occurs in any Act of Parliament, Deed, or any other legal instrument, the time referred to shall, unless it is otherwise specifically stated, be held in the case of Great Britain to be Greenwich mean time, and in the case of Ireland, Dublin mean time.
Página 97 - Doubt thou the stars are fire ; Doubt that the sun doth move ; Doubt truth to be a liar ; But never doubt I love.
Página 98 - How distant some of these nocturnal suns ! So distant (says the sage) 'twere not absurd To doubt if beams, set out at Nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world, Though nothing half so rapid as their flight.