| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1818 - 666 pages
...with the intention of devoting myself to astronomy, but only to acquire a knowledge of the stars, I was agitated by a fear unknown to those who love a...the equinoctial regions, I could not raise my eyes toward the starry vault without thinking of the Cross of the South, and without recalling the sublime... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1822 - 762 pages
...with the intention: of devoting myself to astronomy, but only to acquire a knowledge of the stars, I was agitated by a fear unknown to those who love a sedentary life; It seemed painful to me tcv renounce the hope of beholding those beautiful' constellations, which border the southern pole.... | |
| 734 pages
...which tlie mind has long been fixed as by a secret charm. Impatient, from some such feeling as this, to rove in the equinoctial regions, I could not raise my eyes to the starry vault without thiakiug of the cross of the south, and without recalling to mind the sublime... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 594 pages
...with the intention of devoting myself to astronomy, but only to acquire a knowledge of the stars, I was agitated by a fear unknown to those who love a...which border the southern pole. Impatient to rove in tlie equinoctial regions, I could not raise my eyes towards the starry vault without thinking of the... | |
| David Francis Bacon - Africa - 1843 - 212 pages
...youth accomplished." ***••• " When I studied the heavens, to acquire a knowledge of the stars, impatient to rove in the equinoctial regions, I could...not raise my eyes towards the starry vault, without recalling the sublime passage of Dante, which the most celebrated commentators have applied to this... | |
| John Purdy - 1845 - 562 pages
...with the intention of devoting myself to astronomy, but only to acquire a knowledge of the stars, I was agitated by a fear unknown to those who love a sedentary life. It seemed painful lo meto renounce the hope of beholding those beautiful constellations which border the Southern Pole.... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1852 - 544 pages
...It was painful to me to renounce the hope of beholding the beautiful constellations near the south pole. Impatient to rove in the equinoctial regions, I could not raise my eyes to the starry firmament without thinking of the Southern Cross, and recalling the sublime passage of... | |
| Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pages
...sedentary life. It was painful to me to renounce the hope of beholding the constellations near the south pole. Impatient to rove in the equinoctial regions, I could not raise my eyes to the starry firmament without thinking of the Southern Cross. The pleasure we felt on discovering... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...with the intention of devoting myself to astronomy, but only to acquire * knowledge of tlie stars, I was agitated by a fear unknown to those who love a "sedentary life. I{ seemed painful to me to renounce the hope of beholding those beautiful constellations which border... | |
| John Ruskin - Drawing - 1879 - 286 pages
...•with the intention of devoting myself to astronomy, but only to acquire a knowledge of the stars,\ I was agitated by a fear unknown to those who love a...to renounce the hope of beholding those beautiful * I italicise, because the reserve of the Personal Narrative, in this respect, is almost majestic ;... | |
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