| Timothy Ferris - 2003 - 404 pagina’s
...shower of 1797, these lines of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: "The upper air burst into life! / And a hundred fire-flags sheen, / To and fro they were...fro, and in and out, / The wan stars danced between. . . ." 4. Thomas Jefferson, letter to David Salmon, February 15, 1808, quoted in Bedini, Thomas Jefferson,... | |
| Laurence Bergreen - 2009 - 501 pagina’s
...conditions would understand." CHAPTER 1X The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, o To and fro they were hurried about! And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between. nysically and emotionally exhausted, Magellan climbed partway to the crow's nest to see the prospect... | |
| Antonio D. Tillis - 2005 - 163 pagina’s
...Sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark." "The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried...fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between." (CPW, 1:187, 195, 199)39 The problematic status of such perceptions and, even more, of the phantom... | |
| William Roetzheim - 2006 - 760 pagina’s
...but with its sound it shook the sails, that were so thin and sere. The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, to and fro they were hurried...loud, and the sails did sigh like sedge; and the rain poured down from one black cloud; the Moon was at its edge. The thick black cloud was cleft, and still... | |
| Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pagina’s
...But with its sound it shook the sails, That were so thin and sere. The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried...loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge; And the rain poured down from one black cloud; The Moon was at its edge. The thick black cloud was cleft, and still... | |
| C Bangs, Greg Matloff, Les Johnson - 2007 - 247 pagina’s
...2003). <uo ^ « Q..E r iilli si i|f| I USING A FtAMETAfilY ATM©: The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried...fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner FUTURE space explorers should consider... | |
| |