Studded Quotes
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Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn all the works of the Stagirite, since the study of them was not simply loss of time, but multiplication of ignorance. Yet in spite of this outbreak every page is studded with citations from Aristotle, of whom he everywhere speaks in the highest admiration.
roger bacon— George Henry Lewes, Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science (1864)
The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for human history, set in the arrow of time, there appears to be one intolerable stumbling-block. This is the catastrophic failure in human values and decency.
simon conway morris— p.205 (The Crucible of Creation (1998))
Over all the sky the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.
walt whitman— Drum-Taps. Bivouac on a Mountain-side.
Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn all the works of the Stagirite, since the study of them was not simply loss of time, but multiplication of ignorance. Yet in spite of this outbreak every page is studded with citations from Aristotle, of whom he everywhere speaks in the highest admiration.
george henry lewes— George Henry Lewes, Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science (1864)
And over all the sky the sky! far, far out of reach, studded, breaking out, the eternal stars.
walt whitman— Walt Whitman, Bivouac on a Mountain Side.
Look! The massy trunks are cased in the pure crystal. Each light spray, nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven, is studded with its trembling water-drops, that glimmer with an amethystine light.
william cullen bryant— William Cullen Bryant, A Winter Piece, line 66.
Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn all the works of the Stagirite, since the study of them was not simply loss of time, but multiplication of ignorance. Yet in spite of this outbreak every page is studded with citations from Aristotle, of whom he everywhere speaks in the highest admiration.
george henry lewes— George Henry Lewes, Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science (1864)
Heaven's ebon vault, studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Canto IV (Queen Mab (1813))
A glimpse of Breidablick, whose walls are light As e'en the silver on the cliff it shone; Of dark blue steel its columns azure height And the big altar was one agate stone. It seemed as if the air upheld alone Its dome, unless supporting spirits bore it, studded with stars Odin's spangled throne, A light inscrutable burned fiercely o'er it; In sky-blue mantles, Sat the gold-crowned gods before it.
— Esaias Tegnér, Fridthjof's Saga, Canto XXIII, Stanza 13.
