Where are the souls to whom the spectacle of starry night is not an eloquent discourse ? Where are those who have not been sometimes arrested in the presence of the bright worlds which hover over our heads, and who have not sought for the key of the great... Astronomers of To-day and Their Work - Page 126by Hector Macpherson - 1905 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
| Camille Flammarion - 1871 - 302 pages
...medite en paix sous ton ombre sacrfe !' DE FONTANES. 0 NIGHT, how sublime is thy language to me! . . . . Where are the souls to whom the spectacle of starry...hours of night are in truth the most beautiful of all our hours, those in which we have the faculty of placing ourselves in intimate communication with great... | |
| Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 pages
...of luminous globes, scattered over immense regions to which the human mind can assign no boundaries. Where are the souls to whom the spectacle of starry...hours of night are in truth the most beautiful of all our hours, those in which we have the faculty of placing ourselves in intimate communication with great... | |
| Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 pages
...of luminous globes, scattered over immense regions to which the human mind can assign no boundaries. Where are the souls to whom the spectacle of starry...hours of night are in truth the most beautiful of all our hours, those in which we have the faculty of placing ourselves in intimate communication with great... | |
| Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 pages
...of luminous globes, scattered over immense regions to which the human mind can assign no boundaries. Where are the souls to whom the spectacle of starry...discourse ? Where are those who have not been sometimes i arrested in the presence of the bright worlds which hover over our heads, and who have not sought... | |
| David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 464 pages
..." 0 nuit! que ton langage est sublime pour moi! " O NIGHT, how sublime is thy language to me! . . . Where are the souls to whom the spectacle of starry...hours of night are in truth the most beautiful of all our hours, those in which we have the faculty of placing ourselves in intimate communication with great... | |
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