This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... IX., THE MOON'S MOTIONS. "With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face! What! may it be, that ev'n in heavenly place That busy archer his sharp arrows tries? Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case; I read it in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... IX., THE MOON'S MOTIONS. "With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face! What! may it be, that ev'n in heavenly place That busy archer his sharp arrows tries? Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case; I read it in thy looks; thy languished grace, To me, that feel the like, thy state descries. Then, e'en of fellowship, O Moon, tell me, Is constant love deemed there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they be? Do they above love to be loved, and yet Those lovers scorn, whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there--ungratefulness?" That the heavenly bodies move is never disputed by us, but it was by our fathers in the brave days of old. Nearly all of the most ancient philosophers believed the sky to be a solid dome or firmament, and could not admit the idea of a star standing alone in space, or having a free motion of its own. So still, the North American Indians, the Creeks to wit, believe the earth to be a plane and quiescent: that the sun, moon, and stars wheel round the earth; but that some of the celestial orbs are fixed or stuck on to the sky.68 Pharnaces is reported to have feared that the moon would fall, and pitied those who were "plumbe under the course of the moone, lest soweightie a mass should tumble down upon their heads." Plutarch, who cites this odd notion, thought that her motion would keep her up. Pythagoras seems to have comprehended the solar system, so far as to have recognised the diurnal rotation of the earth, and the revolutions of the other planets. But the ancient Hebrews regard the heavens "as a canopy or a curtain, spread over the earth in such infinite distance, that men appear from thence 'like...
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