 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...first book of the Georgics, mentions the shooting stars as prognosticating weather changes : — " And oft, before tempestuous winds arise, The seeming...darkness, gild the night With sweeping glories and long trains of light." Various hypotheses have been framed to explain the nature and origin of these remarkable... | |
 | Home tutor - 1862 - 532 pages
...a change of weather : — "And oft, before tempestuous winds arise, The seeming s'ars fall swiftly from the skies, And shooting through the darkness, gild the night With sweeping glories, and long trains of light." But what are they, and whence do they proceed ? Obscurity rests upol this question,... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1867 - 588 pages
...connects an unusual display aloft with atmospheric commotions below, as their common precursor : — " And oft, before tempestuous winds arise, The seeming...darkness, gild the night With sweeping glories and long trains of light." Homer compares the hasty passage of the goddess from the peaks of Olympus to break... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1873 - 336 pages
...old Anchises; and mentions the phenomenon, when frequent, as a prognostic of stormy weather : — " And oft, before tempestuous winds arise, The seeming...darkness, gild the night With sweeping glories and long trains of light." Modern observations show that these and other objects of the same class — the shooting... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...celestial bliss, Thou tread'st with seraphims the vast abyss. DRYDEN. Before tempestuous wings arise, Stars shooting through the darkness gild the night With sweeping glories and long trails of light. DRYDEN. Fair Leda's twins, in time to stars decreed, One fought on foot, one curb'd the fiery steed.... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - United States - 1876 - 686 pages
...midnight heavens, and win the trophies of science, while the stars blaze and the planets burn I — "And oft, before tempestuous winds arise, The seeming...the night With sweeping glories and long trails of light."1 GRACE ANNA LEWIS, another descendant of the Quakers, is to be numbered with our women-scientists.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...celestial bliss, Thou tread'st with seraphims the vast abyss. DRYDEN. Before tempestuous wings arise, Stars shooting through the darkness gild the night With sweeping glories and long trails of light. DRYDEN. Fair Leda's twins, in time to stars decreed, One fought on foot, one curb'd the fiery sleed.... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - United States - 1882 - 746 pages
...scan the midnight heavens, and win the trophies of science, while stars blaze and planets burn ! — "And oft, before tempestuous winds arise, The seeming...the night With sweeping glories and long trails of light."3 GRACE ANNA LEWIS, another descendant of the Quakers, is to be numbered with our women-scientists.... | |
 | Samuel Kinns - Bible and geology - 1883 - 556 pages
...stars as prognosticating weather changes : — " And oft, before tempestuous winds arise, The teeming stars fall headlong from the skies, And, shooting...darkness, gild the night With sweeping glories and long trains of light.'. Livy relates that a shower of stones fell at Rome in the reign of Tullus Hostilius,... | |
 | William Roper (Fellow of the Meteorological Society.) - 1883 - 50 pages
...full moon, Once in seven years is once too soon. And, oft before tempestuous winds arise, The teeming stars fall headlong from the skies, And shooting through...darkness gild the night With sweeping glories and long trains of light. — Dryden's Virgil. Much twinkling of the stars foretells bad weather. Numerous falling... | |
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And oft, before tempestuous winds arise, The seeming stars fall headlong from the skies, And, shooting through the darkness, gild the night With sweeping glories, and long trails of light... 
