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" Seized in thought, On Fancy's wild and roving wing I sail, From the green borders of the peopled earth, And the pale moon, her duteous, fair attendant ; From solitary Mars ; from the vast orb Of Jupiter, whose huge gigantic bulk Dances in ether like the... "
Tales about the sun, moon, and stars - Page ix
by Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1862
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...[thought. From the green borders of the peopleu earth, And tlie pale moon, her duteous fair attendant ! e y- hulk Dances in ether like the lightest leaf ; To the dim verge, the suburbs of the system, Where cheerless...
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Systematic Education: Or Elementary Instruction in the Various ..., Volume 2

William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - 1815 - 598 pages
...it is only by comparison that our accomplished poetess, Mrs. Barbauld, speaks of his situation, as the dim verge, the suburbs of the system, Where cheerless Saturn, 'midst his wat'ry moons, Girt with a lucid zone, majestic sits. When Saturn is examined with a good telescope,...
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Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and ...

1817 - 314 pages
...I sail From the green borders of the peopled Earth, And the pale Moon, her duteous fair attendant! From solitary Mars; from the vast orb Of Jupiter,...leaf; To the dim verge, the suburbs of the system, AVhere cheerless Saturn "midst his wat'ry moons, Girt with a lucid zone, in gloomy pomp, Sits like...
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The Contemplative Philosopher: Or, Short Essays on the Various ..., Volume 1

Richard Lobb - 1817 - 430 pages
...vn. Reflections on the Solar System. 69 plished poetess, Mrs. Barbauld, speaks of his situation as The dim verge, the suburbs of the system Where cheerless...Saturn, midst his watery moons, Girt with a lucid zone, majestic sits. When Saturn is examined by a good telescope, he appears to be of a spheroidal form,...
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Poems [signed A.L. Aikin.]. To which is added, An epistle to S ..., Issue 294

Anna Laetitia Barbauld - 1820 - 136 pages
...Mars ; from the vast orb Ol' Jupiter, whose huge gigantic bulk Dances in ether like the lightest loaf; To the dim verge, the suburbs of the system, Where cheerless Saturn 'midst his wat'ry moons Girt with a lucid zone, in gloomy pomp, Sits like an exiled monarch : fearless thence...
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An introduction to geography and astronomy, by the use of the globes and ...

Edward Bruce (bookseller.) - 1821 - 418 pages
...sail, ' From the green borders of the peopled EARTH, 1 And the pale MOON, her duteous fair attendant, ' From solitary MARS, from the vast orb ' Of JUPITER,...verge, the suburbs of the system, * Where cheerless SATORN, midst his watery moons, * Girt with a livid zone, majestic sits, 1 In gloomy grandeur, like...
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 6

1842 - 622 pages
...I sail From the green borders of the peopled Earth, And the pale Moon, her duteous fair attendant ; From solitary Mars, — from the vast orb Of Jupiter,...verge, the suburbs of the system, Where cheerless Herschel, 'mid his watery moons, Majestic Bits." THE SUN rises on the 1st at Greenwich and London at...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...her duteous fair attendant; From solitary Mars ; from the vast orb Of Jupiter, whose huge gigantick bulk Dances in ether like the lightest leaf; To the...Saturn 'midst his watery moons Girt with a lucid zone, in gloomy pomp, Leston 181.] FIRST CLASS BOOK. 416 Sits like an exiled monarch : fearless thence I...
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...I sail, From the green borders of the peopled earth, And the pale Moon, her duteous fair attendant; From solitary Mars; from the vast orb Of Jupiter whose...Saturn, 'midst his watery Moons, Girt with a lucid zone, majestic sits In gloomy grandeur, like an exiled queen Amongst her weeping handmaids: fearless thence...
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...I sail From the green borders of the peopled earth, And the pale moon, her duteous fair attendant-; From solitary Mars ; from the vast orb Of Jupiter,...of the system, Where cheerless Saturn, 'midst his wat'ry moons, Girt wi-th a lucid zone, in gloomy pomp, Sits like an exil'd- monarch. Fearless thence...
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