 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Naturalists - 1809 - 518 pages
...so easily made. Often afterward did Humboldt and Bonpland hear their guides exclaim in the savannahs of Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima...Truxillo, " Midnight is past, the Cross begins to bend !" It reminded them of that affecting scene, where Paul and Virginia, seated near the source of the... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1822 - 762 pages
...observation of time so easily made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim in the savannahs of the Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima to...Truxillo, " Midnight is past, the Cross begins to bend ! " How often those words reminded us of that affecting scene, where Paul and Virginia, seated near... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...seasons the cross of the south is erect, or inclined. It is a timepiece that advances very regular near four minutes a day ; and no other group of stars...Truxillo, " Midnight is past, the cross begins to bend.'' cc 204 AMERICAN BEAUTIES, &C. VIEW AT MEXICO. ( The tame) /~kLD Mexico is a city that attracts the... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...seasons, the Southern Cross is erect, or inclined. It is a timepiece that advances very regularly nearly four minutes a day ; and no other group of stars exhibits,...Truxillo, ' Midnight is past, the Cross begins to bend !' How often these words reminded us of that affecting scene, where Paul and Virginia, seated near... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...erect, or inclined. It is a timepiece that advances very regularly nearly four minutes a day ; nnd s on his forehead rise. The spreading oak, the beech,...freezing ether shine. The frighted birds the rattling !' How often these words reminded us of that affecting scene, where Paul and Virginia, seated near... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1825 - 222 pages
...an observation of time so easily made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim, in the savannahs of Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima...Truxillo, " Midnight is past, the cross begins to bend !" How often these words reminded us of that affecting scene where Paul and Virginia, seated near the... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...nearly four minutes a day; and no other group ot stars exhibits, to the naked eye, an obser vation r quit him while he lives ; Nor think of woes to come...mounts the pad behind. Since mixed at best is man's !' How often these words reminded us of that affecting scene, where Paul and Virginia, seated near... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1827 - 360 pages
...an observation of time so easily made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim, in the savannahs of Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima...Truxillo, " Midnight is past, the cross begins to bend ! " How often these words reminded Us of that affecting scene where Paul and Virginia, seated near... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1827 - 528 pages
...an observation of time so easily made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim, in the savannahs of Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima...Truxillo, " Midnight is past, the cross begins to bend ! " How often these words reminded us of that affecting scene where Paul and Virginia, seated near... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1827 - 256 pages
...an observation of time so easily made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim, in the savannahs of Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima...Truxillo, " Midnight is past, the cross begins to bend ! " How often these words reminded us of that affecting scene where Paul and Virginia, seated near... | |
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It has been observed at what hour of the night, in different seasons, the Cross of the South is erect, or inclined. It is a time-piece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day, and no other group of stars exhibits, to the naked eye, an observation... 
