| 1875 - 860 pages
...revealing one continuous and sublime activity — creation. Regions of lucid matter taking forms, Urushes of fire, hazy gleams, Clusters and beds of worlds, and bee-like swarms Of suns, and starry streams. And this is but a system. At distances which defy our telescopes others illumine trackless space. We... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897 - 346 pages
...Were shuddering with silent stars, she olomb, And as with optic glasses, her keen eyes Pierced through the mystic dome. Regions of lucid matter taking forms,...Of suns and starry streams. She saw the snowy poles of moonless Mars ; That marvellous round of milky light Below Orion ; and those double stars Whereof... | |
| 1859 - 690 pages
...the four quadrangles rose an immense tower — Hither, when all the deep unsounded skies Shuddered with silent stars, she clomb, And as with optic glasses...suns, and starry streams. She saw the snowy poles of moonless Mars, That marvellous round of milky light Below Orion, and those double stars Whereof... | |
| George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1863 - 806 pages
...unsounded sties Shuddered with silent stars, she clomb, And as with optic glasses her keen eyes Piereed thro' the mystic dome, Regions of lucid matter taking...Clusters and beds of worlds, and bee-like swarms Of snns, and starry streams. She saw the snowy poles of moonless Mars, That marvellous round of milky... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1866 - 828 pages
...stars, she clomb, And as with optic glasses her keen eyes Pierced through the mystic dome, "Régions of lucid matter taking forms, Brushes of fire, hazy...suns, and starry streams. " She saw the snowy poles of moonless Mars, That marvellous round of milky light Below Orion, and those double stars Whereof... | |
| 1870 - 588 pages
...with optic glasses. her keen eyes Pierced thro' the mystic dome. Regions of lucid matter taking forma, Brushes of fire, hazy gleams, Clusters and beds of...Of suns and starry streams. She saw the snowy poles of moonless Mars, That marvellous round of milky light Below Orion, and those double stars Whereof... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1872 - 456 pages
...skies Shuddered with -iU-iu stars, she clomb, And as with optic glasses her keen eyes Pierced through the mystic dome, Regions of lucid matter taking forms,...Clusters and beds of worlds, and bee-like swarms Of sunn, and marry stream*. She saw the snowy poles of moonless Man, That marvellous round of milky light... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1872 - 456 pages
...she clomb. And as with optic glasses her kecn eyes Pierced through the myatlc dome, Regions of ludd matter taking forms. Brushes of fire, hazy gleams, Clusters and beds of worlds, and bce-llke swarms Of tuns, and starry streams. She saw the snowy poles of moonless Mara, That marvellous... | |
| 1874 - 618 pages
...inconceivable flights, challenging the outmost nebulœ for their meaning, urging the willing mind through "Regions of lucid matter taking forms, Brushes of...worlds, and beelike swarms Of suns, and starry streams," is one of the most entrancing exercises of the highest and most cultured minds. But it is not only... | |
| 1877 - 564 pages
...skies Shuddered with silent stars, she clomb, And as with optic glasses her keen eyes Pierced through the mystic dome, Regions of lucid matter taking forms,...suns, and starry streams : She saw the snowy poles of moonless Mars, That marvellous round of milky light Below Orion, and those double stars Whereof... | |
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