 | John Milton - 1870 - 352 pages
...through Heav'n, That open'd wide her blazing portals, led 575 To God's eternal house direct the way, A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold And pavement...as stars to thee appear, Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest 580 Powder'd with stars. And now on Earth the... | |
 | James Rattray - Australia - 1870 - 266 pages
...bending up her finger into a vertical position, pointed to the Galaxy or Milky Way in the zenith— A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold And pavement stars, as stars to us appear, Seen in the Galaxy, that Milky Way Like to a circling zone, powdered with stars. The number... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 pages
...He through heaven, That open'd wide her blazing portals, led To God's eternal house direct the way, A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement...stars, as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars. And now on earth the seventh... | |
 | John Milton - 1905 - 398 pages
...He through Heaven, That open'd wide her blazing portals, led To God's eternal house direct the way ; A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement...stars, as stars to thee appear Seen in the Galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars. PARADISE LOST, BOOK VII.... | |
 | Simon Newcomb - Stars - 1906 - 360 pages
...this rule does not apply to the clusters of the galaxy. CHAPTER XVII THE STRUCTURE OF THE MILKY WAY A broad and ample road whose dust is gold. And pavement...stars, as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powdered with stars.—MILTON. THE most salient... | |
 | Fiona Macleod, William Sharp - Natural history - 1906 - 374 pages
...became part of our literature after it passed golden from the mint of Milton (paraphrasing Ovid) — " Broad and ample road whose dust is gold, And pavement...stars, as stars to thee appear Seen in the Galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powdered with stars. . . ." It is rarely now... | |
 | Thomas Emmet Dewey - English poetry - 1907 - 204 pages
...beams of the watery moon." That was a vision. The mighty Milton looked at the Milky Way and called it "A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold And pavement stars." That was a vision. The soaring Shelley scanned the firmament and said: POETRY IN BONO. "Heavens ebon... | |
 | Hector Macpherson - Astronomy - 1908 - 176 pages
...works. Wordsworth calls it "Heaven's broad causeway paved with stars," and Milton refers to it as " A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold And pavement...stars to thee appear, — Seen in the Galaxy, that Milky Way, Which nightly, as a circling zone, thou seest, Powdered with stars." Study of the Galaxy.... | |
 | Astronomy - 1908 - 506 pages
...He through heaven, That opened wide its blazing portals, led To God's eternal house direct the way A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold And pavement stars.' " It was the privilege of the writer of this article to correspond with Prof. Young during the latter... | |
 | Astronomy - 1908 - 500 pages
...He through heaven, That opened wide its blazing portals, led To God-s eternal house direct the way A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold And pavement stars.-" It was the privilege of the writer of this article to correspond with Prof. Young during the latter... | |
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To God's eternal house direct the way, A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars. 
