As shaking terrors from his blazing hair,
A sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star!
How I wonder*what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky!
Each separate star
Seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars
Break up the Night, and make it beautiful.
The stars shall be rent into threds of light,
And scatterM like the beards of comets.
Jeremy Taylor—Sermon I. Christ's Advent
to Judgment.
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Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a
silver braid.
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She saw the snowy poles and moons of Mars,
That marvellous field of drifted light
In mid Orion, and the married stars—
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withdrawn from later editions. Appears in
foot-note to Ed. of 1833.
But who can count the stars of Heaven?
Who sing their influence on this lower world?
Thomson—Seasons. Winter. L. 528.
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| text = The twilight hours, like birds flew by,
As lightly and as free;
Ten thousand stars were in the sky,
Ten thousand on the sea.
For every wave with dimpled face
That leap'd upon the air,
Had caught a star in its embrace
And held it trembling there.
Amelia B. Welby—Musings. Twilight at
Sea. St. 4.
But He is risen, a later star of dawn.
Wordsworth—A Morning Exercise.
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You meaner beauties of the night,
That poorly satisfy our eyes
More by your number than your light;
You common people of the skies,—
What are you when the moon shall rise?
Sir Henry Wotton—On His Mistress, Die
Queen of Bohemia. ("Sun" in some editions.)
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Hence Heaven looks down on earth with all her
eyes.
Young—Night Thoughts. Night VII. L.
1,103.
One sun by day, by night ten thousand shine;
And light us deep into the Deity;
How boundless in magnificence and might.
Young—Night Thoughts. Night IX. L. 728.
Who rounded in his palm these spacious orbs
Numerous as gliterring gems of morning dew,
Or sparks from populous cities in a blaze,
And set the bosom of old night on fire.
Young—Night Thoughts. Night LX. L.
1,260.
STATESMANSHIP
It is strange so great a statesman should
Be so sublime a poet.
Bulwer-Lytton—Richelieu' Act I. Sc. 2.
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| text = A disposition to preserve, and an ability to
improve, taken together, would be my standard
of a statesman.
Burke—Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Learn to think imperially.
Joseph Chamberlain—Speech at Guildhall.
Jan. 19, 1904.
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| text = <poem>No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains
To tax our labours and excise our brains.
Churchill—Night. L. 271.
The people of the two nations [French and
English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants.
There is no other way of counteracting the
antagonism of language and race. It is God's
own method of producing an entente cordiale,
and no other plan is worth a farthing.
Richard Cobden—Letter to M. Michel Chevalier. Sept., 1859. "Entente cordiale,"
used by Queen Victoria to Lord John
Russell, Sept. 7, 1848. Littre (Diet.) dates
its use to speech in The Chamber of Deputies, 1840-41. Phrase in a letter written
by the Dutch Governor-General at Batavia
to the BewinTkebbers (directors) at Amsterdam. Dec. 15, 1657. See Notes and Queries,
Sept. 11, 1909. P. 216. Early examples
given in Stanford Diet. Cobden probably
first user to make the phrase popular.
Quoted also by Ix>rd Aberdeen. Phrase
appeared in the Foreign Quarterly Review.
Oct., 1844. Used by Louis Philippe in a
speech from the throne, Jan., 1843, to
express friendly relations between France
and England.
La cordiale entente qui existe entre le gouvernement francais et celui de la GrandeBretagne.
The cordial agreement which exists between
the governments of France and Great Britain.
Le Charivari. Jan. 6, 1844. Review of a
. Speech by Guizot.
Si l'on n'a pas de meilleurs moyeD de seduction
a lui offrir, l'entente cordiale nous paratt fort
compromise.
