 Never had the stars been more impatient to resume their places, nor the moon more impatient to rise than on the following evening. With trembling hope and fear, the planets that came out first after sunset espied her disk, broad and dark red, emerging...  Prose - Seite 95von James Montgomery - 1824Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1824 - 412 Seiten
...as it had advanced, leaving her fairer by contrast than before. Soon afterwards the day broke, ami she withdrew, marvelling what would next befall her....herself was too much elated to suspect any failing-, and fondly,Jmagined by that species of self-measurement wheret>3^arthly as well as heavenly bodies are... | |
 | 1824 - 504 Seiten
...planets that came out first after sunset espied her disk, broad nod dark red, emerging from a gulpb of clouds in the east. At the first glance, their...to deem themselves greater than they are, that she mast have continued to increase all round, — till she had got above the Atlantic ; but even then... | |
 | 1836 - 342 Seiten
...disk, broad and dark red, emerging from a gulf of clouds in the east At the first glance, their kcen celestial sight discovered that her western limb was...whereby earthly as well as heavenly bodies are apt to dcem themselves greater than they are, that she must have continued to increase all round, — till... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 Seiten
...planets that came out first after sunset, espied her disk, broad and dark red, emerging from a gulf of clouds in the east. At the first glance, their...elated to suspect any failing, and fondly imagined that she had continued to increase all round, till she had got above the Pacific ; but even then, she... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 Seiten
...planets that came out first after sunset espied her disk, broad and dark red, emerging from a gulf of clouds in the east. At the first glance, their...are, that she must have continued to increase all round, — till she had got above the Atlantic ; but even then she was only chagrined to perceive that... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 Seiten
...planets that came out first after sunset, espied her disk, bjroad and dark red, emerging from a gulf of clouds in the east. At the first glance, their...elated to suspect any failing, and fondly imagined that she had continued to increase all round, till she had got above the Pacific ; but even then, she... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 Seiten
...planets that came out first after sunset, espied her disk, broad and dark red, emerging from a gulf of clouds in the east. At the first glance, their...elated to suspect any failing, and fondly imagined that she had continued to increase all around, till she had got above the Pacific; but even then, she... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1880 - 414 Seiten
...planets that came out first after sunset espied her disk, broad and dark red, emerging from a gulf of clouds in the east. At the first glance, their...elated to suspect any failing, and fondly imagined that she had continued to increase all round, till she had got above the Pacific ; but even then she... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1885 - 240 Seiten
...planets that came out first after sunset espied her disk, broad and dark red, emerging from a gulf of clouds in the east. At the first glance, their...elated to suspect any failing, and fondly imagined that she had continued to increase all round, till she had got above the Pacific ; but even then slie... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 466 Seiten
...planets that came out first after sunset, espied her disk, broad and dark red, emerging from a gulf of clouds in the east. At the first glance, their..."elated to suspect any failing, and fondly imagined that she had continued to increase all around, till she had got above the Pacific; but even then, she... | |
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