 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...the skies. And now, rejoicing in the prosperous gales, With beating heart Ulysses spreads his sails : d the wide circumference around. ' Whatever spirit, careless of his charg ever-watchful eyes. There view'd the Pleiads, and the Northern Team, And great Orion's more refulgent... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...the skies. And now, rejoicing in the prosperous gales, With heating heart Ulysses spreads his sails : My fancy form'd th« of angelic kind, Some emanation of the All-heauteous ever-watchful eyes. There view'd the Pleiads, and the Northern Team, And great Orinn's more refulgent... | |
 | John Aikin, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - Children's stories, English - 1839 - 398 pages
...I remember the lines in Pope's translation. Fa. Repeat them, then. Ch. " Placed at the helm he sat, and mark'd the skies, Nor closed in sleep his ever- watchful eyes ; There view'd the Pleiades, and the Northern Team, And great Orion's more effulgent beam, To. which,... | |
 | 1840 - 588 pages
...avTov <rrpetp(Tcu, Kal 'Apiiwa SoKtve»Ofjl $' tfipopAs ian \otTpuv 'ClKiavoiu. — Odyis. 1. 1. 270. Placed at the helm he sate, and mark'd the skies, Nor closed in sleep his ever watchful eyes. There view'd the Pleiads, and the Northern Team, And great Orion's more refulgent beam, To which, around... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1850 - 344 pages
...That It was practised by the Greeks, as early as the time of the Trojan war, that is, ahoot 1200 years BC, we learn from Homer: for he says of Ulysses, when...and mark'd the skies, Nor closed in sleep his ever watchfol eyes." It is rational to soppose that the stars were first osed as a goide to travellers by... | |
 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1853 - 398 pages
...skies. And, now, rejoicing in the prosperous gales, With beating heart Ulysses spreads his sails : 'y Placed at the helm he sate, and mark'd the skies, Nor closed in sleep his ever-watchful eyes. There view'd the Pleiads, and the Northern Team, And great Orion's more refulgent... | |
 | 1858 - 782 pages
...age, is clear from Homer's description of the voyage of Ulysses : — " Placed at the helm, he sat, and mark'd the skies, Nor closed in sleep his ever- watchful eyes. There view'd the Pleiads and the Northern Team, And great Orion's more refulgent beam ; To which, around... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1873 - 360 pages
...practiced by the Greeks, as early as the time of the Trojan war, that is, about 1200 year. B. ('., we learn from Homer; for he says of Ulysses, when...safe and sure method of directing their course by iand. And we find, according to Diodorus Siculus, that travellers in the sandy plains of Arabia were... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Constellations - 1873 - 358 pages
...That it wus practiced by the Greeks, as early as the time of the Trojan war, that is, about 1200 year. BC, we learn from Homer ; for he says of Ulysses,...the stars were first used as a guide to travellers Ly land, for we can scarcely imagine that men would venture themselves upon the sea by night, before... | |
 | Homerus - 1874 - 394 pages
...the skies. And now, rejoicing in the prosperous gales, With beating heart Ulysses spreads his sails : Placed at the helm he sate, and mark'd the skies, Nor closed in sleep his ever-watchful eyes. There view'd the Pleiads, and the Northern Team, And great Orion's more refulgent... | |
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Nor closed in sleep his ever-watchful eyes. There view'd the Pleiads, and the Northern Team, And great Orion's more refulgent beam, To which, around the axle of the sky, The Bear, revolving, points his golden eye : Who shines exalted on the ethereal plain,... 
