"Aether" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this aether stretching infinite, And girdling earth with close yet soft embrace? That reckon thou thy Zeus, that name ...
— Works, V3 • Lucian of Samosata
... Spir. vitrioli fortis | | Acida —— tenuis |Spir. vitrioli dulcis | mineralis Spiritus nitri |Spir. nitri dulcis | AEther. Spir. salis marini ...
— An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany • Donald Monro
... organism stands at rest and life comes to it on the material currents of the winds and waters, or in the vibratory energy of the aether; or, again, whether with restless craving it hurries hither and thither in search of it, matters nothing. The one principle—the accelerative law which is the law of the organic—urges all alike onward to development, reproduction and death. ...
— The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays • J. (John) Joly
... woven; And she advanced, but, for guidance, the wind-footed Iris preceded. Then the o'erhanging abyss of the ocean was parted before them, And having touched on the shore, up darted the twain into AEther; Where, in the mansion of Zeus Far-seeing, around him were gather'd All the assembly of Gods, without sorrow, whose life is eternal: And by the throne was she seated; for Blue-eyed Pallas Athena Yielded the place; and, the goblet of gold being tender'd by Hera ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 • Various
... et amoena vireta Fortunatorum nemorum, sedesque beatas. Largior hic campos aether et lumine vestit Purpureo: solemque suum, ...
— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson
... world, a vast world, Goodwin, marching stately through space. It was no globe—it was a world of many facets, of smooth and polished planes; a huge blue jewel world, dimly luminous; a crystal world cut out from Aether. A geometric thought of the Great Cause, of God, if you will, made material. It ...
— The Metal Monster • A. Merritt
... mythology (Hesiod's Theog., 123), one of the first things created, the daughter of Chaos, and mother of Aether (sky) and Hemera (day); also of Deceit, Strife, Old Age, and ...
— Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I • Edmund Spenser
... thriving city of Eden, as poetically heightened by Zephaniah Scadder, General Choke, and other worthies; part and parcel of the talons of that great American Eagle, which is always airing itself sky-high in purest aether, and never, no never, never, tumbles down with draggled wings ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens
... were antient titles of the chief Deity. The latter is supposed to have been the same as Zeus, AEther, and Coelus. He seems to have been worshipped under the symbol of a serpent with three heads. Hence Homer has given to his hero of this name a serpent for a device, both upon his breastplate, and ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) • Jacob Bryant
... and numbed me. The next moment, as it seemed—perhaps it was the next day—I was hustled up through the aether to Olympus, and dumped down at the foot of Zeus' throne. ...
— Hypolympia - Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy • Edmund Gosse
... polarization effected by the quartz plates is called circular, while that effected by the other class of crystals is called plane, on account of the form of the vibrations executed by the molecules of aether; and this leads us to examine a little more closely the nature of the polarization of different parts of these spectra ...
— Six Lectures on Light - Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 • John Tyndall
... Heaven or AEther is often called the father. Their marriage too is described, as, for instance, ...
— India: What can it teach us? - A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge • F. Max Mueller
... "The development must have been going forward through centuries, to have produced such a monstrosity. It was a true instance of Saiitii manifestation, which I can best explain by likening it to a living spiritual fungus, which involves the very structure of the aether-fiber itself, and, of course, in so doing, acquires an essential control over the 'material substance' involved in it. It is impossible to make it plainer in ...
— Carnacki, The Ghost Finder • William Hope Hodgson
... plasters, ointments, and embrocations, hungary-water, spirit of lavender, assafoetida drops, musk, hartshorn, and sal volatile; besides a thousand frowzy steams, which I could not analyse. Such, O Dick! is the fragrant aether we breathe in the polite assemblies of Bath — Such is the atmosphere I have exchanged for the pure, elastic, animating air of the Welsh mountains — O Rus, quando te aspiciam!- — I wonder what the devil possessed ...
— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett
... e. Night), in the Greek mythology the goddess of night, the daughter of CHAOS (q. v.), and the sister of EREBOS (q. v.), one of the very first of created beings, the terror of gods, and by Erebos became the mother of AEther, pure light, and Hemera, daylight, as well as other ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... myself. Floating in this blue aether, what the devil is my wife to me, and her dirty Earth! My persecuting enemies seem so many pismires; and as for my debts, which have occasioned me so many brooding moments, honour and infamy, credit and beggary, ...
— Ixion In Heaven • Benjamin Disraeli
... this my auld age, that cudna but follow the mere liftin' o' the weicht o' debt, I feel as gien my sowl wad be tum'led aboot like a bledder, an' its auld wings tak to lang slow flaggin' strokes i' the ower thin aether o' joy. The great God protec' 's frae his ain gifts! Wi'oot him they're ten times waur nor ony wiles o' the deevil's ain. But I'll pray, ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald
... that the Artificer of all things, the original of the world in its improved state, framed him from divine elements;[27] or whether, the Earth, being newly made, and but lately divided from the lofty aether, still retained some atoms of its kindred heaven, which, tempered with the waters of the stream, the son of Iapetus fashioned after the image of the Gods, who rule over all things. And, whereas other animals bend their looks downwards upon the Earth, to Man he gave a countenance to look ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso
... Rectified aether (pure) is a better medium than alcohol for rapidity of drying (especially in a draught), but is more expensive. Nothing, I believe, prevents mites (psocidae) appearing now and then even in poisoned insects. Constant care, stuffed bodies, and soaking in benzoline, are the deterrent agents; ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne |
