The stars came out, and the constellationof the Dipper hung exactly over the Val d' Arno, pointing to the North Star above the hills on my right.
The hues are far more brilliant than those of any painted glass I saw in England, and a great wheel window looks like a constellation of many-colored gems.
Besides these, there were a good many sturdy little rascals, vociferating in proportion as they needed nothing.
In the Rig-Veda he is Orion, and for ever lies with the three arrows in his belt which Sirius shot at him because of his love for Aldebaran,--towards which constellation he stretches.
Thou mirror of purity, when shall the elfine lamp of my glimmerous understanding, purged from sensual appetites and gross desires, shine like the constellation of thy intellectual powers!
I wonder what the stars will look like now that the constellationof the Great Bear is done for.
I want to borrow the Lieutenant's glass to-night to see how the heavens look without the constellation of the Great Bear.
The crown of Ariadne was made a Constellation between those of Hercules and Ophiuchus.
This was another name of the Constellation called the Greater Bear, into which Calisto had been changed.
The whole constellation of Albano's shining past had gone down below the horizon, and only one bright star of all the group stood glimmering still above the earth--Idoine.
Mr. Proctor notes that in 1866 a star, in the constellation Northern Cross, suddenly shone with eight hundred times its former luster, afterward rapidly diminishing in luster.
In 1876 a new star in the constellation Cygnus became visible, subsequently fading again so as to be only perceptible by means of a telescope; the luster of this star must have increased from five hundred to many thousand times.
The Little Bear (Ursa Minor) is theconstellation which contains the pole-star.
This constellation has seven stars placed together in a manner resembling those in the Great Bear.
Nova Aurigae, a temporary star, appeared in the constellation in 1892.
Then they would naturally, in a northern clime, choose out the constellation of the Great Bear or Orion, and for small groups, the Pleiades (op.
Special mention is made of "the waters" and land of the "northern place of light above the constellation of the Great Bear.
The many variants of the constellation or star termed "the divine triangle" or "the triangle of the god" next claim attention.
Subject to correction, I am inclined to interpret this glyph as a hieratic sign for the constellation Ursa Minor and its four movements, and to consider it as furnishing a valuable proof of the origin of the Maya Calendar.
In the Edfu zodiac, the latter, whose name furnishes an anagram of amen=hidden, is represented with the Ra sign on her head and holds a cord to which the constellation of Ursa Major is attached.
An extremely interesting variant of this constellation represents a hawk-headed sphinx, next to the triangle (pl.
But other members were associated from different parts of Italy; and the whole constellation of names is still brilliant, though some have grown dim by time.
In the constellation of scholars who enjoyed the sunshine of favour in the palace of Cosmo de’ Medici, Leonard Aretin was one of the oldest and most prominent.
At these words Darius looked up again into the starry sky and fixed his eyes on a bright constellation hanging over the horizon.
Your evil star has approached your favorable constellation so nearly, that a mere novice in astrology could see some serious danger was at hand.
Defn: A remarkable variable star in theconstellation Cetus (o Ceti).
Defn: A sign and constellationof the zodiac; Gemini.
Leo Minor, a smallconstellation between Leo and the Great Bear.
Defn: A fixed star of the first magnitude in the left foot of the constellation Orion.
Defn: A small constellation situated between the Southern Cross and the Pole.
Defn: A constellation of the zodiac, containing the two bright stars Castor and Pollux; also, the third sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about May 20th.
Defn: The Unicorn, a constellation situated to the east Orion.
Defn: A constellationon the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus.
Defn: A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo.
Defn: A constellationof the southern hemisphere, near the south pole.
A constellation of the zodiac containing the bright star Antares.
The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
Defn: A brilliant star of the first magnitude, the brightest of those constituting the constellation Lyra.
Defn: A large and bright constellation on the equator, between the stars Aldebaran and Sirius.
Defn: A constellation in the northern hemisphere, near Lyra.
The most brilliant star in the constellation is on the left, in the top of the letter, and called Aldebaran, from which the moon's distance is computed.
Sixty degrees south-west of the Polar Star may be seen Taurus, the first constellation on the meridian the present month.
The seven principal stars in this constellation form a reversed dipper, Cynosura being the first of the three that constitute the handle.
His mind was a constellation of all brilliant qualities; his manners the embodied essence of suavity and elegance!
Aries, or the Ram, succeeded next, and now the Fishes lead the brilliant throng, and the once leader is the second sign and third constellation in the zodiac.
The Lesser Bear Leads from the pole the lucid band: the stars Which from this constellation faintly shine, Twice twelve in number, only one beams forth Conspicuous in high splendor, named by Greece The Cynosure; by us the Polar Star.
When thou dost move in the dance, Then each constellation moves also; With thee and round thee they move.
Now, in flat channel, Through the meadowland steals it, And in the polish'd lake Each constellation Joyously peepeth.
Not now for the first time I surrender To this form, in humble adoration; It was brightest midst the constellation In the hail adorn'd with festal splendour.
The star which was supposed to have appeared soon after his death, and which represented his soul admitted to Olympus, was somewhere near the constellation Aquila, according to Ptolemy, but not part of it.
They named this constellation the horned head of some great fictitious animal.
Had not the fortunes of war laid him low not many miles distant one year later, he would have shown, no doubt, as one of the brightest stars in the constellation of great Generals that South Carolina ever produced.
Their troops added no little lustre to the constellation of the South's great heroes, and when the true history of the great Civil War shall be written, they will be remembered.
At the moment the stars of the constellation one by one were quenched in the light of the moon, the poet tells us, "Down fell the red skin of the lion Into the river at his feet.
Cassiopeia is called "the starred Aethiop queen," because after her death she was placed among the stars, forming the constellation of that name.
In their distress they prayed to the gods to change their form, and Jupiter in pity turned them into pigeons, and then made them a constellation in the sky.
Milton alludes to the fact that the constellation of the Bear never sets, when he says, "Let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear.
Chiron was the wisest and justest of all the Centaurs, and at his death Jupiter placed him among the stars as the constellation Sagittarius.
After leaving earth, she was placed among the stars, where she became the constellation Virgo The Virgin.
To the northward was the constellation of the Great Bear, which reaches its meridian altitude about the same time as the constellations of the Cross and the Centaur.
One of the most striking sights to them now was the constellation of the Cross, commonly known by mariners as the Southern Cross, and which is composed of four brilliant stars.
She was smashed to kindling wood on her second trip, but not before the men in her could be hauled aboard the Constellation with ropes--not before every member of the yachting party was saved!
Nevertheless, the Constellationbore down upon the shipwrecked men, getting as near to them as possible, without being swept on to the rocks herself.
But on the 11th of June the Constellation came in, bringing the news of the conclusion of peace, and of the release of the captives, upon payment of sixty thousand dollars.
The President, Congress, Essex, andConstellation were in company.
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