Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers: System of the heavens as revealed by Lord Rosse's telescopes. Modern superstition. Coleridge and opium-eating. Temperance movement. On war. The last days of Immanuel KantTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 |
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... growth , one is inclined to regard them as the plumes of a sultan . Dressed he is , therefore , as well as armed . And finally comes Lord Rosse , that glorifies him with the jewellery of stars : he is now 20 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS.
... growth , one is inclined to regard them as the plumes of a sultan . Dressed he is , therefore , as well as armed . And finally comes Lord Rosse , that glorifies him with the jewellery of stars : he is now 20 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS.
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Thomas De Quincey. him with the jewellery of stars : he is now a vision ' to dream of , not to tell : ' he is ready for the worship of those that are tormented in sleep : and the stages of his solemn uncovering by astronomy , first by ...
Thomas De Quincey. him with the jewellery of stars : he is now a vision ' to dream of , not to tell : ' he is ready for the worship of those that are tormented in sleep : and the stages of his solemn uncovering by astronomy , first by ...
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... stars . Sup- pose a world at the distance x , which distance is so great as to make the manifestation of that world weak , milky , nebular . Now let the secret power that wields these awful orbs , push this world back to a double ...
... stars . Sup- pose a world at the distance x , which distance is so great as to make the manifestation of that world weak , milky , nebular . Now let the secret power that wields these awful orbs , push this world back to a double ...
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... stars they were , and stars he forced them to own themselves . Why should any decent world wear an alias ? There was nothing , you know , to be ashamed of in being an honest cluster of stars . Indeed , they seemed to be sensible of this ...
... stars they were , and stars he forced them to own themselves . Why should any decent world wear an alias ? There was nothing , you know , to be ashamed of in being an honest cluster of stars . Indeed , they seemed to be sensible of this ...
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Thomas De Quincey. that were stars ; and another that were not stars , nor ever were meant to be stars . Yet that was prema ture he found at last , that , though not raised to the peerage of stars , finally they would be so they were the ...
Thomas De Quincey. that were stars ; and another that were not stars , nor ever were meant to be stars . Yet that was prema ture he found at last , that , though not raised to the peerage of stars , finally they would be so they were the ...
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Page 145 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike the' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 184 - Those shocks of passion to prepare That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.
Page 42 - ... insurmountable, height was swallowed up in depth unfathomable. Suddenly, as thus they rode from infinite to infinite, suddenly, as thus they tilted over abysmal worlds, a mighty cry arose that systems more mysterious, that worlds more billowy, other heights and other depths, were coming, were nearing, were at hand.
Page 151 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Page 161 - The most remarkable instance of a combined movement in society which history, perhaps, will be summoned to notice, is that which, in our day, has applied itself to the abatement of intemperance. Two vast movements are hurrying into action by velocities continually accelerated, — the great revolutionary movement from political causes, concurring with the great physical movement in...
Page 42 - Angel, I will go no farther. For the spirit of man aches with this infinity. Insufferable is the glory of God. Let me lie down in the grave from the persecutions of the infinite ; for end, I see, there is none.
Page 20 - Where armies lie encamp'd, come flying, lured With scent of living carcasses design'd For death, the following day, in bloody fight : So scented the grim feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
Page 40 - God called up from dreams a man into the vestibule of heaven, saying, — "Come thou hither, and see the glory of my house." And to the servants that stood around his throne he said, — "Take him, and undress him from his robes of flesh : cleanse hia vision, and put a new breath into his nostrils : only touch not with any change his human heart — the heart that weeps and trembles.
Page 40 - And to the servants that stood around his throne he said, — "Take him, and undress him from his robes of flesh : cleanse hia vision, and put a new breath into his nostrils : only touch not with any change his human heart — the heart that weeps and trembles." It was done ; and, with a mighty angel for his guide, the man stood ready for his infinite voyage ; and from the terraces of heaven, without sound or farewell, at once they wheeled away into endless space. Sometimes with the solemn flight...
Page 41 - With, in were stairs that scaled the eternities above, that descended to the eternities below : above was below, below was above, to the man stripped of gravitating body : depth was swallowed up in height insurmountable, height was swallowed up in depth unfathomable.