Tales about the sun, moon, and stars |
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Common terms and phrases
appear astronomers atmosphere attraction axis believe belong bodies bright called cause centre changes CHAP clouds comet dark David Brewster disc discovered distance earth eclipse equal face fall figure fixed stars four further globe head heat heaven Herschel horizon hundred increase influences Jupiter larger least less light little readers look magnitude mass matter means Mercury meteors miles millions minute month moon motion mountains move naked eye nature nearer nebules night November objects observed opening orbit PARLEY passes period picture planets present represented respect rise round the sun seen shining shooting side single Sir John Sir William Solar System sometimes space spots sun's supposed surface talk telescope tell things thought thousand tion told turn visible volcanoes whole
Popular passages
Page 16 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page xiii - 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 lightest leaf...
Page 26 - ... a degree of brightness about as strong as that with which such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight.
Page 257 - 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.
Page 359 - Centauri and the Cross ; while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and is in comparison hardly traceable.
Page 20 - ... below, seem to bid defiance to the laws of gravitation. Around the base of these frightful eminences, are strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems to have detached from their parent mass ; and when we examine the rents and ravines which accompany the over-hanging cliffs, we expect every moment that they are to be torn from their base, and that the process of destructive separation which we had only contemplated in its effects, is about to be exhibited before us in tremendous...
Page 359 - ... almost vacant parts of its general mass, and that eccentrically, so as to be much nearer to the parts about the Cross than to that diametrically opposed to it.
Page 20 - ... spring from their rugged flanks, and threatening the valleys below, seem to bid defiance to the laws of gravitation. Around the base of these frightful eminences, are strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems to have detached from their parent mass ; and when we examine the rents and ravines which accompany the over-hanging cliffs, we expect every moment that they are to be torn from their base, and that the process of destructive separation which we had...
Page 360 - ... other objects are scattered. Some of the objects in it are of very singular and incomprehensible forms ; the chief one, especially (30...
Page 163 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Tales about the sun, moon, and stars |
| Author | Peter Parley (pseud.) |
| Edition | 2 |
| Published | 1837 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 16 Oct 2006 |
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