 | 1813 - 302 páginas
...sickle to the ripen'd corn ; J And when, attendant on the sun's decline, They in the evening-ether only shine, Then is the season to begin to plough,...shady vale receives his toil, And he manures the fat, tin: inland soil. Would you the fruits of all your labours see, Or plough, or sow, or reap, still naked... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1829 - 260 páginas
...there is a passage founded on a truly astronomical observation : speaking of the Pleiades, says he, There is a time when forty days they lie, And forty...human eye, But in the course of the revolving year, When the swain sharps the scythe, again appear. The time, says the scholiast Tzetzes, in which they... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1829 - 374 páginas
...there is a passage founded on a truly astronomical observation : speaking of the Pleiades, says he, There is a time when forty days they lie, And forty...human eye, But in the course of the revolving year, When the swain sharps the scythe, again appear. The time, says the scholiast Tzetzes, in which they... | |
 | 1829 - 308 páginas
...drink, and dise, although there was a great but very gradual change of climate all over the Earth. There is a time when forty days they lie, And forty nights, conceal'd from human eye. COOKE'S HESIOD. This is, says Tzetzes, partly in April, and partly in May ; which is occasioned by... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge, William Fayal Clarke, Albert Gallatin Lanier, Maurice R. Robinson - 1877 - 992 páginas
...night skies after being lost in the sun's rays, which in his day would be in early autumn, says : " There is a time when forty days they lie, And forty...human eye ; But in the course of the revolving year. When the swain sharps the scythe, again appear." With the telescope, more than two hundred stars can... | |
 | Samuel Jenkins Johnson - 1874 - 212 páginas
...grapes. Hesiod, nearly 1000 BC, has a passage on the Pleiades, which is thus rendered by Cooke : — " There is a time when forty days they lie, And forty nights concealed from human eye ; But in the course of the revolving year, When the swain sharps the scythe... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1881 - 282 páginas
...night skies after being lost in the sun's rays, which in his day would be in early autumn, says : " There is a time when forty days they lie, And forty...human eye : But in the course of the revolving year, When the swain sharps the scythe, again appear." With the telescope, more than two hundred stars can... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1881 - 778 páginas
...truly astronomical passage upon the Pleiades, nearly 1000 years BC It is thus rendered by Cooke : — There is a time when forty days they lie, And forty...human eye, But in the course of the revolving year, When the swain sharps the scythe, again appear. Among the classical ancients the heliacal rising of... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1881 - 778 páginas
...truly astronomical passage upon the Pleiades, nearly 1000 years BC It is thus rendered by Cooke : — There is a time when forty days they lie, And forty...human eye, But in the course of the revolving year, When the swain sharps the scythe, again appear. Among the classical ancients the heliacal rising of... | |
 | sir William Peck - 1885 - 72 páginas
...Hesiod (who lived nearly 3,000 years ago) says, referring to the invisibility of the Pleiades : — " There is a time when forty days they lie, And forty nights, concealed from human eye, But in the course of the revolving year, When the swain sharps the scythe,... | |
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There is a time when forty days they lie, And forty nights, conceal'd from human eye : But in the course of the revolving year, When the swain sharps the scythe, again appear. 
