 | 1810 - 578 pages
...heavenly vault appeared to be all on fire, not exhibiting the stream or character of the aurora-borealis, but an immensity vivid and clear, through which the...suddenly burst, and descended to the earth in a shower of brilliant sparks, or glittering gems. This splendid phenomenon was succeeded by a multitude ot shooting... | |
 | Thomas Ashe - Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1808 - 348 pages
...vault appeared to be all on fire : not exhibiting the stream or character of the aurora-borealis ; but an immensity vivid and clear, through which the...diversified magnitude and brightness, Many meteors rose majes-» tically out of the horizon : and having gradually attained an elevation of thirty degrees,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1808 - 702 pages
...vault appeared to be all on fire : not exhibiting the »trcam or character of the . auror.i-borealis; but an immensity vivid and clear, through which the stars, detached from the firmament, traversed in 1808.;] Ash? s Trawlt In America, eccentric directions, followed by trains of light of diversified... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1808 - 710 pages
...vault appeared to be all on fire : not exhibiting the stream or character of the; aurora-borealia ; but an immensity vivid and clear, through which the stars, detached from the firmer tit, traversed in •«hey иге better adapted for the bufincss of grazing than for com. The... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...an immensity of light, through which the cinders, detached from the flames, traversed in eccentrick directions, followed by trains of light, of diversified magnitude and brightness. Many streams of water rose majestically out of the engines ; a.id having gradually attained an elevation... | |
 | 1809 - 592 pages
...suddenly appeared to him allonjire ; not exhibiting the stream or character of the Aurora Borealis, but an immensity vivid and clear, through which the...suddenly burst, and descended to the earth in a shower of brilliant sparks, or glittering gems. This splendid phenomenon was succeeded by a multitude of •shooting... | |
 | Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 588 pages
...suddenly appeared to him allonJire ; not exhibiting the stream or character oV the Aurora Boreatis, but an immensity vivid and clear, through which the...suddenly burst, and descended to the earth in a shower of brilliant sparks, or glittering gems. This splendid phenomenon was succeeded by a multitude of shooting... | |
 | Thomas Ashe - Alleghany River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1809 - 334 pages
...heavenly vault appeared to be all on lire: not exhibiting the stream or chaiacter of theaurora-borealis ; but an immensity vivid and clear, through which the...suddenly burst; and descended to the earth in a shower of brilliant sparks, or glittering gems. This splendid phenomenon was succeeded by a multitude of shoot*... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 594 pages
...suddenly appeared to him all onfire ; not exhibiting the stream or character of the Aurora Borealis,but an immensity vivid and clear, through which the stars...suddenly burst, and descended to the earth in a shower of brilliant sparks, or glittering gems. This splendid phenomenon was succeeded by a multitude of shooting... | |
 | Arthur Aikin - 1809 - 832 pages
...through which the star«, detached from the firmament, traversed in eccentric direction «,lol lowed by trains of light of diversified magnitude and brightness. Many meteors rose majc-etically out of the horizon : and having gradually attained an elevation of thiity degrees, suddenly... | |
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The heavenly vault appeared to be all on fire, not exhibiting the stream of character of the aurora borealis, but an immensity vivid and clear, through which the stars detached from the firmament traversed in eccentric directions, followed by trains of... 
