 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1841 - 486 pages
...XXVI. COMETS, CONTINUED. " Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiucus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid train Shakes pestilence and war."— Milton. AMONG other great results which have marked the history... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - Aesthetics - 1841 - 78 pages
...emotions produced by the comet now, as it returns at its predicted period, from those excited as it fired "the length of Ophiucus huge In the Arctic sky, and, from his horrid hair," was supposed to shake " pestilence and war !" As, therefore, he who cannot see beyond the stars as... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - Congregational churches - 1847 - 528 pages
...produced by the cotnet now, as it returns at its predicted period, from those excited as it fired " the length of Ophiucus huge In the Arctic sky, and, from his horrid hair," was supposed to shake " pestilence and war ! " As, therefore, he who cannot see beyond the stars as... | |
 | Education - 1848 - 398 pages
...produced by the comet now, as it returns at its predicted period, from those excited as it fired " the length of Ophiucus huge In the Arctic sky, and, from his horrid hair," was supposed to shake " pestilence and war ! " As, therefore, lie who cannot see beyond the stars as... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1855 - 484 pages
...CONTINUED. " Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrifled, and like a comet burned, That flres the length of Ophiucus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid train Shakes pestilence and war." — Milton. AMONG other great results which have marked the history... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1858 - 454 pages
...CONTINUED. " Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burned, That lirvs the length of Ophiucus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid train Shakes pestilence and war."— Milton. AMONG other great results which have marked the history... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...deform : on the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiucus huge In the Arctic sky, and l'ro?n his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. 2. Such a frown Each cast at the other, as when two... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Theology - 1886 - 258 pages
...aspires ; and the glowing red of a divine and human love. And as our late splendid visitor, who " Fired the length of Ophiucus huge • In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shook pestilence and war," comes only occasionally, and soon disappears, while the gentle and regular... | |
 | Juliet Cummins - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 276 pages
...Milton's mind in Book 2, since he gives it a specific location that matches the location of the 1618 comet: "That fires the length of Ophiucus huge / In the Arctic sky." That Milton had a keen interest in astronomy is by now fairly well established. In the circumstances... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1840 - 458 pages
...XXVI. COMETS, CONTINUED. " Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrifled, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiucus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid train Shakes pestilence and war." — Milton. AMONG other great results which hav^marked the history... | |
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That fires the length of Ophiucus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid train Shakes pestilence and war."— Milton. AMONG other great results which have marked the history of Halley's comet, it has itself been a criterion of the existing state... 