The splendours of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb, And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil.

[DIVINE ODE] I The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.

The cloud seemed now gradually and visibly to spread; in truth, the whole firmament in that direction was totally obscured.

The whole of that grand and lovely landscape was spread before her without conveying impressions, as we gaze into the void of the firmament with our looks on vacuum.

Was it worth while, think you, to arch the firmament above our rogueries, and light the ageless stars as candles to display our antics?

A good woman who had given twenty sous to buy a place in the firmament for her defunct spouse, was quite scandalized to remark that the Curé was eating in a heedless manner the wafer which, for nearly 2000 years, serves as a lodging for Christ.

Their loose and large robes typify the enfolding of the firmament by the light and the winds.

At times it was as though all the ice was driven by some strong movement in one direction, then it was like the whole pavement of the world slipping down the side of the firmament into space.

Now to ye all, be firmaments to stars, Be stars to Firmaments, and, as you are Splendent, so be fixed, not wandering, nor Irregular, both keeping course together.

Stolzen had dropped from her firmament like a fallen and forgotten star.

Here and there a whiteness like a film of air rounded out over a peak; and she recognized that it was one of those angels who travel far and wide with God's commissions, going to the other worlds that are in the firmament as in a sea.

And surrounded by those hundred maids and virgins, she shone in their midst, endued as she was with bright effulgence, like Rohini in the firmament amid an inferior multitude of stars.

The second day he made the firmament, and divided the waters that were under the firmament from them that were above, and called the firmament heaven.

And Cicero, for instance, said that the heavens were placed around the earth and man in order that he might admire the beauty of the starry firmament at night, and that animals and plants were created for his use and pleasure.

And that vast gaping of the firmament Under the southern pole is nothing else