It was a little later, that my attention was drawn to the fact, that the great star of green flame, was slowly sinking out of the North, toward the East.

Do the stars in their courses lay limitations on free will? There are in man two forces working: a human longing after God, and, in response, God inly working in the soul.

A careful reading of the MS. suggests that, either the sun is traveling on an orbit of great eccentricity, or else that it was approaching the green star on a lessening orbit.

The sod in many places was starred with daisies and blue gentians, over which I lingered.

It was the evening after "wash-day," and family linen, in graceful curves and undulating outlines, everywhere met the eye as it turned from contemplating the stars to contemplating the clothes-lines in the gardens.

"Here we are, Mr. Nixon," said Buntline; "here are the stars for you.

The landscape, cold and bare, is reflected in its pure depths; the winds ruffle its glassy surface, and the sun fills it with throbbing spangles, while its waves begin to lap and murmur around its leafless shores,sun-spangles during the day and reflected stars at night its only flowers, the winds and the snow its only visitors.

Then Octavius took courage and set up in the temple of Venus a bronze statue of him with a star above his head.

For bird-song and flower And star from above Combine in thy bower; Their union is love!

As the sun sank to his rest behind the western hills, and the twilight began to gather in the forest and over the lake, the moon rose over the eastern high lands, walking with a queenly step up into the sky, casting a long line of brilliant light across the waters, showing the shadows of the mountains in bold outline in the depths below, and paling the stars by her brightness above.

Thus, while the ash bears no fruit, the Eddas describe the stars as the fruit of Yggdrasil.

Mr Dick, now, when he goes out to look at the stars through his telescope, might get his death of cold if his shoemaker did not know his business.

What would be the value of the heavens, if we could bring the stars into our lap?

This motto has been translated by Shelley himself as follows: 'Thou wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy fair light had fled:

I must hurry onfor many nights Have I sought for the star about the sky, And found it not amid the myriad lights, Greater and lesser with their satellites, Flashing confusedly upon mine eye.

I had a good star near it in the field of my comet-seeker, but what star?

She called to her, "Mary, Mary!" putting her hands upon her, and gazed into her face with an intensity and anguish of eagerness which might have drawn the stars out of the sky.

If 'tis offence such truths to tell, Why do your merits thus excel? 10 Since then I dare not speak my mind, A truth conspicuous to mankind; Though in full lustre every grace Distinguish your celestial face: Though beauties of inferior ray (Like stars before the orb of day) Turn pale and fade: I check my lays,

And a great and painful excitement came upon the people of the lesser pyramid; for the loneliness of the world pressed upon them; and it was to them as though we in this age called to a star across the abyss of space.

Yet in this matter Augustus had no personal feeling, so that by a bulletin he even published to all the conjunction of stars under which he had been born.

May the brothers of Helen, lucid stars like you, and the Father of the winds, guide you; and may you only feel the breath of the zephyr.'

"Amid the woods, the scene of flitting soulsamid the crack and crash and yelling soundsthe impalpable perfume of the woodsand yet the pungent, stifling smokethe radiance of the moon, looking from heaven at intervals so placidthe sky so heavenlythe clear-obscure up there, those buoyant upper oceansa few large, placid stars beyond, coming silently and languidly out, and then disappearingthe melancholy, draperied night above, around.

It was reported that seventy thousand Strathobalani {86a} from the stars over Cappadocia were to be there, together with five thousand Hippogerani; {86b} these I did not see, for they never came: I shall not attempt, therefore, to describe them; of these, however, most wonderful things were related.

I, however, have been bestirring myself to put amateurs upon a more convenient and, I think, a better mode of examining double stars than by the wire micrometer, with its faults of illumination, fiddling, jumps, and dirty lamps.

In the centre of all was repeated the silver Star within the golden band; the emblem from which the Order derives its name, and in which it embodies its deepest symbolism.