 | Thomas Gray - Book jackets - 1885 - 164 pages
...meteor, streaming to the wind." Dryden describes the same phenomenon in three vigorous lines : — 'The seeming Stars fall headlong from the skies, And...Night With sweeping Glories and long Trails of Light.' 1. 27. Vocal no more, ie with echoes. The sense of vocal here is not the primary one of ' pertaining... | |
 | Samuel Kinns - Bible and astronomy - 1885 - 578 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 Home in the reign of Tullus Hostilius,... | |
 | Samuel Kinns - Bible and geology - 1887 - 862 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 Dwight Whitney - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1891 - 258 pages
...To move with a long reach ; move with a prolonged sliding or trailing motion: as, a sweeping stroke. The seeming stars fall headlong from the skies; And,...night With sweeping glories, and long trails of light, Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, L 604. 4. To pass systematically over a surface in search of something;... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 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.... | |
 | Weather - 1898 - 266 pages
...oft. hefore tempestuous winds arise, Tht teeming stars fall headlong from the skies, And, snooting through the darkness, gild the night With sweeping glories and long trails of light ; ffcnf And chaff with eddy winds is whirled around. And dancing leavex are lifted from the ground... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1909 - 1112 pages
...before tempest'ous winds arise, The seeming stars fall headlong from the skies, And, shooting thro' the darkness, gild the night With sweeping glories, and long trails of light; And chaff with eddy-winds is whirl'd around, And dancing leaves are lifted from the ground; And floating... | |
 | John Stephen Vaughan - Bible - 1922 - 304 pages
...when Virgil, in the "Georgics," Book I., writes : 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, etc. ; nobody makes any complaint. Or when Macgillivray assures us that " he found... | |
 | Daniel Webster Hering - Common fallacies - 1924 - 324 pages
...watery strand, And, mounting upward with erected flight, Gain on the skies and soar above the sight. And oft, before tempestuous winds arise, The seeming...night With sweeping glories, and long trails of light; And chaff with eddy-winds is whirled around, And dancing leaves are lifted from the ground; And floating... | |
 | English periodicals - 1926 - 1014 pages
...meteoric apparition. Virgil refers to shooting stars as the forerunners of unsettled weather as follows : And oft, before tempestuous winds arise, The seeming...darkness, gild the night With sweeping glories and long trains of light. This idea, however, does not appear to be well supported. I have sometimes noticed... | |
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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... 
