The Stars and Their Stories: A Book for Young PeopleH. Holt, 1913 - Всего страниц: 274 The Stars and Their Stories: A Book for Young People by Mary Matlock Griffiths, first published in 1913, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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... mischief or other . Seeing nothing , however , and hearing no sound , he soon began his antics again . At length , not that he was weary , but only idle and luxurious , Pegasus folded his wings , and lay down 26 THE STARS AND THEIR STORIES.
... mischief or other . Seeing nothing , however , and hearing no sound , he soon began his antics again . At length , not that he was weary , but only idle and luxurious , Pegasus folded his wings , and lay down 26 THE STARS AND THEIR STORIES.
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... soon rolled over on his back , with his four slender legs in the air . It was beautiful to see him , this one solitary creature , whose mate had never been created , but who needed no companion , and , living a great many hundred years ...
... soon rolled over on his back , with his four slender legs in the air . It was beautiful to see him , this one solitary creature , whose mate had never been created , but who needed no companion , and , living a great many hundred years ...
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... soon as he unclosed his eyes , he gently pinched the winged horse's ear , in order to arouse him . Pegasus immediately started from the ground , and pranced about a quarter of a mile aloft , and made a grand sweep around the mountain ...
... soon as he unclosed his eyes , he gently pinched the winged horse's ear , in order to arouse him . Pegasus immediately started from the ground , and pranced about a quarter of a mile aloft , and made a grand sweep around the mountain ...
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... soon wheeled round , at about the same distance from the Chimaera as before . Bellerophon then perceived that he had cut the goat's head of the monster almost off , so that it dangled downward by the skin , and seemed quite dead . But ...
... soon wheeled round , at about the same distance from the Chimaera as before . Bellerophon then perceived that he had cut the goat's head of the monster almost off , so that it dangled downward by the skin , and seemed quite dead . But ...
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... soon discovered the thief , and was not to be appeased until Mercury gave him the lyre as a peace - offering . Apollo was god of music , as well as of the sun , and was delighted with the new instrument . Down on the earth lived Orpheus ...
... soon discovered the thief , and was not to be appeased until Mercury gave him the lyre as a peace - offering . Apollo was god of music , as well as of the sun , and was delighted with the new instrument . Down on the earth lived Orpheus ...
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Стр. 237 - Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Стр. 215 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes Up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Стр. 237 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Стр. 86 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
Стр. 210 - And twined themselves among the multitude, Hissing, but stingless — they were slain for food: And War, which for a moment was no more, Did glut himself again...
Стр. 208 - I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy Earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
Стр. 6 - In the infinite azure, star after star, How they brighten and bloom as they swiftly pass ! How the verdure runs o'er each rolling mass ! And the path of the gentle winds is seen, Where the small waves dance, and the young woods lean "And see where the brighter day-beams pour, How the rainbows hang in the sunny shower ; And the morn and...
Стр. 130 - So spake he ; and was buckling Tighter black Auster's band, When he was aware of a princely pair That rode at his right hand. So like they were, no mortal Might one from other know : White as snow their armour was : Their steeds were white as snow.