The Romance of CometsHarper & brothers, 1926 - 210 síđur |
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according Andromedids astronomers Biela's bright camera Canyon Diablo Caroline Herschel celestial chapter comet-hunter cometary comets and meteors constellation David Gill DAYLIGHT COMET degrees director discovered distance Donati E. E. Barnard earth fact faint family of comets field of view five giant planets Halley's comet haze heavens Herschel horizon JOHN TEBBUTT Jupiter Leonids light mass ment Messier meteor stream meteor system miles millions moon morning naked eye nearest approach nearly nebula Neptune night November nucleus object observed obtained occasion particles passed path perihelion period Perseids photograph taken plate predicted Professor Barnard Professor E. E. Barnard R. A. PROCTOR record regarding remained visible remarkable resembling result Saturn seen September September 12 shooting stars shower skies solar system space splendor streak suggested sun's tail Tebbutt telescope thousand tion train Uranus Ursa Major watch Williams Bay writer Yerkes Observatory
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Síđa 4 - HUNG be the heavens with black , yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky ; And with them scourge the bad revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death ! Henry the fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
Síđa 4 - When beggars die there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Síđa 171 - I could hear from most of the negroes of three plantations, amounting in all to about six or eight hundred. While earnestly listening for the cause, I heard a faint voice near the door calling my name. I arose, and taking my sword, stood at the door. At this moment, I heard the same voice still beseeching...
Síđa 9 - So spake the grisly terror ; and in shape, So speaking, and so threatening, grew ten-fold More dreadful and deform : on the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
Síđa 37 - Th' illustrious stranger passing, terror sheds On gazing nations, from his fiery train Of length enormous ; takes his ample round Through depths of ether; coasts...
Síđa 1 - Amid the radiant orbs, That more than deck, that animate the sky, The life-infusing suns of other worlds; Lo! from the dread immensity of space Returning, with accelerated course, The rushing comet to the Sun descends ; And as he sinks below the shading earth, With awful train projected o'er the Heavens, The guilty nations tremble.
Síđa 10 - The brandish'd sword of GOD before them blaz'd Fierce as a comet ; which with torrid heat, And vapour as the Libyan air adust, Began to parch that temperate clime; whereat In either hand the hast'ning angel caught Our ling'ring parents, and to th' eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. They looking back, all th...
Síđa 171 - The scene was truly awful ; for never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell towards the earth ; east, west, north, and south it was the same.
Síđa 36 - as a sparrow's flight through the hall when you are sitting at meat in winter-tide, with the warm fire lighted on the hearth, but the icy rainstorm without. The sparrow flies in at one door, and tarries for a moment in the light and heat of the hearth-fire, and then flying forth from the other vanishes into the wintry darkness whence it came. So tarries for a moment the life of man in our sight, but what is before it, what after it, we know not. If this new teaching tells us aught certainly of these,...
Síđa 171 - While earnestly listening for the cause I heard a faint voice near the door calling my name. I arose, and, taking my sword, stood at the door. At this moment I heard the same voice still beseeching me to rise, and saying, ' O my God, the world is on fire...