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" Shot from the chariot like a falling star, That in a summer's evening from the top Of heaven drops down, or seems at least to drop, Till on the Po his blasted corpse was hurl'd, Far from his country, in the western world." The fable of Phaeton evidently... "
The Geography of the heavens and class-book of astronomy - Page 37
by Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1874 - 348 pages
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ...

John Milton - 1795 - 260 pages
...Fertur; uc mterdiim de Etsi non cecitit, potuit cecieUsse, vV The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair, Shot from the chariot, like a falling star, That in a summer's evening from the top Of heaven cirops down, or seems at least to drop. AJd'n Milton adds that this shooting star thwarts or crossei...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 9

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...the Earth, the shining fragment. The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair, Shot from the rhariot, like a falling star, That in a summer's evening from .the top Of Heaven drops down, or seems at leastto drop ; Till on the Po his blasted corpse was hurl'd, Far from his country, in the.western world....
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes: Poems

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 542 pages
...And, scatter'd o'er the earth, the shining fragments lay. The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair, Shot from the chariot, like a falling star, That in...hurl'd. Far from his country, in the western world. PHAETON'S SISTERS TRANSFORMED INTO TREES. The Latian nymphs came round him, and amaz'd On the dead...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the ..., Volumes 5-6

Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 638 pages
...; And scatter'd o'er the earth, the shining fragmentsla The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair, Shot from the chariot, like a falling star, That in a summer's ev'ning from the top Of heav'n drops down, or seems at least to drop-, Till on the Po his blasted corpse...
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Ovid's Metamorphoses, tr. by dr. Garth, and others

Publius Ovidius Naso - 1812 - 582 pages
...away; p And scatter'd o'er the earth the shining fragme The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair, Shot from the chariot like a falling star, That in...the top Of heaven drops down, or seems at least to drc Till on the Po his blasted corpse was burl'd, Far from his country, in the western world. PHAETON'S...
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The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Volume 13

Greek literature - 1813 - 408 pages
...[lay. And scatter'd o'er the earth the shining fragments The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair, Shot from the chariot like a falling star, That in...hurl'd, Far from his country, in the western world. PHAETON'S SISTERS TRANSFORMED INTO TREES. The Latian nymphs came round him, and, amaz'd, On the dead...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 14

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 472 pages
...away, And scatter'd o'er the earth the shining fragments lay: The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair Shot from the chariot like a falling star, That in...hurl'd, Far from his country, in the western world. PHJIETOJY'S SISTERS TRANSFORMED ISTO TREES. THE Latian nymphs came round him, and amaz'd On the dead...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 302 pages
...[lay. And scatter'd o'er the earth the shining fragments The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair, Shot from the chariot like a falling star. That in...hurl'd, Far from his country in the western world. 's Sigters ttsngfotmen into The Latian nymphs came round him, and, amazed, On the dead youth transfix'd...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...Stella sercno, Ktai non cecidit, potuit cecidisse videri. The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair, .Shot from the chariot, like a falling star, That in a summer's evening from the top Of heav'n drops down, or seems at least to drop. Adduon. Milton adds, that this shooting star thwarts...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...stella sereno, Etsi non cecidit, potuit cecidisse videri. The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair, Shot from the chariot, like a falling star, That in a summer's evening from the top Of beav'n drops down, or seems at least to drop. Aiditan. Milton adds, that this shooting star thwarts...
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