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The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. Forever singing, as they shine, The hand that made us is divine. - Joseph Addison, Ode--The Spacious Firmament on High Beyond the stars--what? Is it the beginning or end you see? For beyond the stars--what? - Anonymous What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies? - Philip James Bailey, Festus (sc. Everywhere) Surely the stars are images of love. - Philip James Bailey, Festus (sc. Garden and Bower by the Sea) The stars, Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields Of heaven. - Philip James Bailey, Festus (sc. Heaven) We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. - Bible, I Peter (ch. I, v. 19-20) Canst thou bind, the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? - Bible, Job (ch. XXXVIII, v. 31) Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? - Bible, Job (ch. XXXVIII, v. 32) Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? - Bible, Job (ch. XXXVIII, v. 6-7) They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. - Bible, Judges (ch. V, v. 20) The sad and solemn night Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires; The glorious host of light Walk the dark hemisphere till she retires; All through her silent watches, gliding slow, Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go. - William Cullen Bryant, Hymn to the North Star When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me then thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, When Stars are in the Quiet Skies The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary occasion to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity. - Edmund Burke, On the Sublime and the Beautiful--Magnificence A grisly meteor on his face. - Samuel Butler (1), Cobbler and Vicar of Bray This hairy meteor did announce The fall of sceptres and of crowns. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, 247) Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 17) Like the lost pleiad seen no more below. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Beppo (st. 14) Where Andes, giant of the western star, With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd. - Lord John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell, Pleasures of Hope (pt. I) In yonder pensile orb, and every sphere That gems the starry girdle of the year. - Lord John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell, Pleasures of Hope (pt. II, l. 194) And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky. - Lord John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell, The Soldier's Dream Now twilight lets her curtain down And pins it with a star. - Mrs. Lydia Maria Child No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Divinatione (II, 13) While twilight's curtain gathering far, Is pinned with a single diamond star. - M'Donald Clarke ("The Mad Poet"), Death in Disguise (l. 227) Whilst twilight's curtain spreading far Was pinned with a single star. - M'Donald Clarke ("The Mad Poet"), Death in Disguise (l. 227), as it appeared in Boston ed. 1733 Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni Displaying page 1 of 4 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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