Let the floors swim with Cyprian nectar, soft strains of music rouse midnight from her leaden slumber, and a thousand burning lamps eclipse the morning sun.
The splendor of the noble dames who bloom In Catherine's beauteous garden would, I know, Eclipse myself, and my more modest merits.
It displeases them that the noisy and showy so often eclipse true merit, but they are no less shocked that appearance is also demanded from merit, and that a real substance does not dispense with an agreeable form.
Yes, and we ought to let father know, too, for you may be sure Baxter will do all he can to get square with us for keeping the Eclipse mining claim out of his grasp.
Once he is absolutely in our power, I am sure I can bring Anderson Rover to terms and make him turn the entire right to that Eclipse mine over to my representatives.
But it was the most extraordinary thing, an unpredicted eclipse of the moon!
But there is another thing--that eclipse of the moon!
An eclipse one day, as nearly as possible a revolution soon after!
Indeed, they have not yet satisfactorily explained this eclipse of the moon, though they have written volumes about it.
Some poetical compositions by Guido are, however, still extant; and his reputation for skill in the art was such as to eclipse that of his predecessor and namesake Guido Guinicelli, as we shall see in the Purgatory, Canto XI.
He advances further, as argument in proof of a spherical earth, that the shadow it casts in an eclipse of the moon is circular.
We had almost made up our minds indeed that as soon as the eclipse was well over, we would return on the Hornet to Honolulu.
Through the gully along whose course Kalaua and his followers had plunged in the first darkness of the total eclipse to cut off our retreat, a vast river of red-hot lava was pouring onward resistlessly in huge fiery cataracts.
Meanwhile, the sailors were busy with their own preparations, for the eclipse arrangements took up their whole time.
And curiously enough, since you mention eclipses, there's going to be an eclipseof the moon on Saturday.
This was the place to observe the eclipse from, and here they meant to camp out accordingly.
At last the Saturday of the expected eclipse arrived in due time, and all the day was occupied by Frank and the naval officers in final arrangements for their scientific observations.
Away off to the left, on the summit of the mountains, I saw the camp-fires of the naval eclipse parties.
I was almost sorry indeed I hadn't tried to ride a horse, game leg and all, and go round with the eclipseparty to the camp of observation.
The few remaining days before the date of the eclipse passed by, I am happy to say, uneventfully.
In contrast with this, let us ask what we think of an eclipse ourselves, and how far any religious emotion, determinant of action or of inaction, is connected with the phenomenon in our experience.
He was fully convinced that the gods concerned themselves about him and his doings, that they were watching over him, and that the eclipse was a communication from them not to be neglected without a breach of religious duty.
I suppose he expects some of those half-witted blockheads fluttering about the house to eclipse Granville, which is of course extremely probable!
And as in the sun's eclipse we can behold the great stars shining in the heavens, so in this life eclipse have these men beheld the lights of the great eternity, burning solemnly and forever!
Some eclipse had passed over the girl's light self-satisfied temper; some searching thrill of experience had gone through the whole nature.
It was the last eclipse through which a radiant soul was called to pass; but while it lasted it was black indeed.
Being so small, it can never cause an eclipse of the sun, but it transits the sun as a dark spot about one hundred and twenty times during the Martian year.
I refer to the belief that in an eclipseof the sun, the sun is swallowed by a dark demon.
And, as already stated, an unusual natural phenomenon, such as an eclipse of the sun, is likewise almost everywhere regarded as a demoniacal event.
From his observation during the eclipse of 1878, made at Central City, Dr.
At the beginning of totality the line from the west side was much the longer, but as the eclipse progressed it shortened notably, while the line from the east side, shorter by about one-third at the beginning of the eclipse, grew longer.
When the eclipse ended, the proportions of the lines were exactly reversed.
Briefly stated, the theory is that the light seen around the sun during a total eclipse is not due to a material substance enveloping the sun, but is a phenomenon of diffraction.
The duration of an eclipse of the sun depends on three things, the distance of the sun from the earth, the distance of the moon from the earth, and the distance of the station from the equator.
The moon covers the sun during the eclipse and a little more, so that it can move for about five minutes and still cover the sun entirely.
All of these were favorable to a long eclipse in the case of the recent one, and the six minutes of totality gave opportunities for deliberate work not often enjoyed.
In the photographs of the Egyptian eclipse of last summer these streamers can be traced back of each other where they cross; no better proof of their extreme tenuity could be given.
Janssen, a great astronomer, who went to Algeria to see an eclipse of the sun.
Janssen reached his destination only to find dense clouds covering the Algerian sky at the moment the eclipse took place.
She was troubled by the thought that Priscilla shared in her partial eclipse of popularity, and inclined to regard her uncompromising conscience as a decided inconvenience, if nothing worse.
An Eclipse electric starter with an oversized flywheel was used.
But they and all the other "big guns" of the Commons were thrown into complete eclipse by Laurier's performance.
The hereditary devotion to the British Crown, of which Victoria to the passing generations appeared to be the permanent and unchanging personification, threw into eclipse the corresponding sentiment in England.
He noticed the Moon was nearing a point where it would be ineclipse on Luna City itself.
One is from the Earth side, using the eclipse corridor of darkness as protection.
In 1869 three professors, I being one, were sent to Des Moines, Iowa, to observe the solar eclipse which passed across the country in June of that year.
At this same eclipse Professor Harkness shared with Professor Young of Princeton the honor of discovering the brightest line in the spectrum of the sun's corona.
The year following parties were sent to the Mediterranean to observe an eclipse which occurred in December, 1870.
We saw the darkness of the eclipse and nothing more.
I went to Gibraltar, although the observation of the eclipse was to me only a minor object.
Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.
As this was the first eclipse of the kind which had recently been visible, much interest was taken in its observation.
The voice of one of our scientific men who returned from a visit abroad declaring that one of our eclipse reports was the laughing-stock of Europe was drowned in the general applause.
He was at my station on one occasion when a total eclipse of the sun was to be observed, and made a report on what he saw.
I was invited to visit the university, and did so on my way to observe the eclipse of 1860.
In the course of the interview, the learned gentleman expressed his regret that her Majesty's government had declined to take any measures to promote observations of the coming eclipse of the sun by British astronomers.
The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.
On the eclipse expedition mentioned in the last chapter I had used a sextant.
How there was an eclipse of the sun, and the king of France died.
