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It was when so summoned that it was my fortune to see the shower of falling stars in November, 1833. From the time I arose until after daylight there was no part of the heavens that was not illuminated not with one meteor merely but with many hundreds. Many of them left a long train, extending through twenty, thirty, or even forty degrees.
But, of course, I had to lose some time going slow through the earth's atmosphere, for otherwise the car would have taken fire, like a meteor, on account of the friction. Then, too, I shall have to slow up on entering the atmosphere of Venus, which appears to be very deep and dense; so, upon the whole, I don't count on landing upon Venus in less than sixteen days from the time of our departure.
While wrapt in these dreams of imagination, his companion gently touched him, and, pointing in a direction nearly straight across the lake, said, 'Yon's ta cove. A small point of light was seen to twinkle in the direction in which he pointed, and, gradually increasing in size and lustre, seemed to flicker like a meteor upon the verge of the horizon.
Keats, no doubt, in one at least of his unequalled odes, does depart from the scheme of structure indicated by the opening stanza, and without any apparent metrical need for so doing. But the poem does not gain by the departure. Another blemish of a minor kind in the ‘Ode to a Star’ is that of rhyming “meteor” with “wheatear.”
But this friction, however laborious they might regard it at other times, they thought very little of just now, when observation had become far more interesting and important than ever. If the Moon had any atmosphere, our travellers were near enough now to strike any meteor that might be rushing through it.
It came from a large meteor which sailed past towards the mountains, whither were tending also the huge masses of cloud which gather about the high peaks previous to the season of rain and hurricanes. There was nothing surprising in this meteor, for the sky was full of them in August nights; but it was very beautiful.
I was favoured with only a slight glimpse of this dangerous meteor, and had made up my mind to "'ware steel," when someone plucked me by the sleeve, and turning, I beheld my quondam acquaintance of the purple magna. "Dispensadme, senor," said he, nodding graciously, "I have just learned that the caravan is going on to Chihuahua." "True, there is no market here for our goods."
Johnson himself afterwards honestly acknowledged the merit of Walpole, whom he called 'a fixed star; while he characterised his opponent, Pitt, as 'a meteor. But Johnson's juvenile poem was naturally impregnated with the fire of opposition, and upon every account was universally admired.
It's a chance of a lifetime to see one, and they're valuable, too! Bless my star dust! I must tell Tom Swift of this!" Out into the glare of the great searchlight ran Mr. Damon, followed by his wife and several of the servants. "There it is!" cried the odd man. "There's the meteor!" "First we're a comet and then we're a meteor," said Ned with a laugh. "Oh.
Nor, had he done so, would she have believed him; for Anne Singleton has learned much in her twenty-two summers and winters, and knows that love is only a meteor in life's sky, and that the true lodestar of this world is gold.
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