Unfair to the shining one in its innermost heart, cold to the
suns:--thus travelleth every
sun.
Their apprehensions arise from several changes they dread in the celestial bodies: for instance, that the earth, by the continual approaches of the
sun towards it, must, in course of time, be absorbed, or swallowed up; that the face of the
sun, will, by degrees, be encrusted with its own effluvia, and give no more light to the world; that the earth very narrowly escaped a brush from the tail of the last comet, which would have infallibly reduced it to ashes; and that the next, which they have calculated for one-and-thirty years hence, will probably destroy us.
He calls himself the New Priest of Apollo, and he worships the
sun."
THE SIRENS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, THE CATTLE OF THE
SUN.
The Queen consented with many tears, and the King at once bade his son set forth in search of the Tree of the
Sun, from which he was to pluck a golden apple.
Overhead it was a deep Indian red and starless, and south-eastward it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet where, cut by the horizon, lay the huge hull of the
sun, red and motionless.
Are those her sails that glance in the
Sun, Like restless gossameres!
I remember that our astronomer, one day, spoke of the nature and magnitude of the
sun. The manner that he chose to render clear to the imagination of his hearers some just notions of its size, though so familiar to astronomers, produced a deep and unexpected impression on me.
The
sun was shining gloriously; the children that had been confirmed went out of the town; and from the wood was borne towards them the sounds of the unknown bell with wonderful distinctness.
"Look'ee, the little emmets crawling!" he said, pointing to them, and he shaded his eyes with his hand to look at the
sun. They mowed two more rows; the old man stopped.
"The
sun shouldn't strike it at all but it does in the morning."
Methinks now this coined
sun wears a ruddy face; but see!
