The gallery of nature: a tour through creation, المجلد 281860 |
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... to cross to Burgundy ; And , in my company , my brother Gloster : Who from my cabin tempted me to walk Upon the hatches ; thence we look'd toward England , And cited up a thousand heavy times , During the wars of York and Lancaster ...
... to cross to Burgundy ; And , in my company , my brother Gloster : Who from my cabin tempted me to walk Upon the hatches ; thence we look'd toward England , And cited up a thousand heavy times , During the wars of York and Lancaster ...
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
ancient appearance Aratus astronomical atmosphere bodies cause celestial centre clouds coast colour comet constellation dark diameter direction disk distance double star earth east eclipse ecliptic elevation equator Eratosthenes exhibits extent fall feet Flamstead globe heat heavens height hemisphere Hipparchus horizon hundred hyæna immense inhabitants interval island Jupiter Keppler lake land latitude light lunar magnitude mass millions of miles moon motion mountains naked eye nearly night northern northern hemisphere object Observatory observed occur ocean orbit owing parallax passing perihelion period phenomena plain planets pole present Ptolemy rain regions remarkable revolution rise river rock rotation round satellites Saturn seen shore Sir John Herschel snow solar southern space spot square miles stars stream supposed surface telescope temperature terrestrial thousand tropic of Cancer tropical Tycho Brahe Uranus valley vapour vast velocity Venus visible volcanic wind winter
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 683 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
الصفحة 546 - 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; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
الصفحة 72 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
الصفحة 565 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
الصفحة 716 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
الصفحة 320 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
الصفحة 256 - And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter : therefore the name of it was called Marah.
الصفحة 203 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God ! — let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer ! and let the ice-plains echo, God ! God!
الصفحة 686 - Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream.
الصفحة 5 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears— soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony...