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Not even microwaves. It might leak. And we want to see if it works." Just forty-two hours later they found out that it did work. A single rocket came climbing furiously out from Earth. It came from the night-side, and they could not see where it was launched, though they could make excellent guesses. They got a single guided missile ready to crash it if necessary. It wasn't necessary.
It is precisely similar to that of the "old moon in the new moon's arms"; and Zenger, who witnessed it with unusual distinctness, January 8, 1883, supposes it due to the same cause namely, to the faint gleam of reflected earth-light from the night-side of the planet.
Wrote dramas, children's books, and one or two novels, including Susan Hopley , and Lilly Dawson , but is chiefly remembered for her Night-side of Nature , a collection of stories of the supernatural. Though somewhat morbid she had considerable talent. Historian and novelist, s. of an officer in the army, b. near Southampton, and ed. at Trinity Coll., Dublin.
Professor Vogel, of Berlin, who himself saw part of the night-side of Venus, in its semi-obscurity in November, 1871, ascribed its visibility to a twilight effect caused by a very extensive atmosphere.
It seemed as if the solemn night-side of life was busy waking now, but the silence and solitude of my antique chamber became too much for me. I rose from my bed, and paced up and down the room. I raked up the dying embers of the fire, and drew an arm-chair to the hearth. I fell into a doze. By and by I woke up suddenly, and I was conscious of stealthy footsteps in the passage.
This keenness of corner was only blunted when she was given over to sudden fits of gloom, one of the phases of the night-side of sentiment which she knew too well for her years. Her presence brought memories of such things as Bourbon roses, rubies, and tropical midnight; her moods recalled lotus-eaters and the march in Athalie; her motions, the ebb and flow of the sea; her voice, the viola.
Taught suspicion by his earlier acquaintance with the "night-side" of human nature, Beck had good cause for it here.
The performance ranks with the best that Henry Irving has given with Mathias, Lesurques, Dubosc, Louis XI., and Hamlet; those studies of the night-side of human nature in which his imagination and intellect and his sombre feeling have been revealed and best exemplified. Eugene Aram was born at Ramsgill, in Nidderdale, Yorkshire, in 1704.
Goethe's constant endeavour was not to become the victim of this blindness that is, not to be led by day-time experience to forget the night-side of human life. The passage quoted from the Introduction to his Farbenlehre shows how, in all that he strove for, he kept this goal in view.
It is 'as if a rose should shut and be a bud again. I need my native weather, heat and sea." "How can you go to Martinique?" "Oh, I forgot!" Mr. Raleigh did not reply, and they both sat listening to the faint night-side noises of the world. "You are very quiet," he said at last, ceasing to fling waifs upon the stream. "And you could be very gay, I believe." "Yes. I am full of exuberant spirits.
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