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The spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue ethereal sky,
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim.
Forever singing, as they shine,
The hand that made us is divine.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Ode--The Spacious Firmament on High
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What are ye orbs?
The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Everywhere)
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Surely the stars are images of love.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Garden and Bower by the Sea)
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The stars,
Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields
Of heaven.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Heaven)
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We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well
that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place,
until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any
private interpretation.
Author: Bible
Source: I Peter (ch. I, v. 19-20)
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Canst thou bind, the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the
bands of Orion?
Author: Bible
Source: Job (ch. XXXVIII, v. 31)
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Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou
guide Arcturus with his sons?
Author: Bible
Source: Job (ch. XXXVIII, v. 32)
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Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the
corner stone thereof;
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God
shouted for joy?
Author: Bible
Source: Job (ch. XXXVIII, v. 6-7)
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They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought
against Sisera.
Author: Bible
Source: Judges (ch. V, v. 20)
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The sad and solemn night
Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;
The glorious host of light
Walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;
All through her silent watches, gliding slow,
Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.
Author: William Cullen Bryant
Source: Hymn to the North Star
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When stars are in the quiet skies,
Then most I pine for thee;
Bend on me then thy tender eyes,
As stars look on the sea.
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: When Stars are in the Quiet Skies
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The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder
augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly
contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in
such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary
occasion to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort
of infinity.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: On the Sublime and the Beautiful--Magnificence
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A grisly meteor on his face.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Cobbler and Vicar of Bray
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This hairy meteor did announce
The fall of sceptres and of crowns.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, 247)
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Cry out upon the stars for doing
Ill offices, to cross their wooing.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 17)
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Like the lost pleiad seen no more below.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Beppo (st. 14)
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Where Andes, giant of the western star,
With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd.
Author: Lord John Campbell, first Baron Campbell
Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. I)
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In yonder pensile orb, and every sphere
That gems the starry girdle of the year.
Author: Lord John Campbell, first Baron Campbell
Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. II, l. 194)
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And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.
Author: Lord John Campbell, first Baron Campbell
Source: The Soldier's Dream
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Now twilight lets her curtain down
And pins it with a star.
Author: Lord John Campbell, first Baron Campbell
Source: The Soldier's Dream
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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.
[Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur
plagas.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Divinatione (II, 13)
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While twilight's curtain gathering far,
Is pinned with a single diamond star.
Author: M'Donald Clarke ("The Mad Poet")
Source: Death in Disguise (l. 227)
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Whilst twilight's curtain spreading far
Was pinned with a single star.
Author: M'Donald Clarke ("The Mad Poet")
Source: Death in Disguise (l. 227), as it appeared in Boston ed. 1733
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Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
In his steep course?
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni
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Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies
And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Lines on an Autumnal Evening
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