[164] “Against the course of the sky.” Par. vi. 2.
... “That sphere, Which aye in fashion of a child is playing.” Purg. xv. 2, 3. (Longfellow).
[166] “Under a poor sky.” Purg. xvi. 2.
“And as advances, bright exceedingly, The handmaid of the sun, the heaven is closed, Light after light, to the most beautiful.” Par. xxx. 7-9. (Longfellow).
“As at evening hour Of twilight, new appearances through heaven Peer with faint glimmer, doubtfully descried.” Par. xiv. 70-72. (Carey).
[169] In Kenneth Grahame’s delightful book, full of sympathy with Nature, The Wind in the Willows. The moon rose when it was “past ten o’clock,” and “sank earthwards reluctantly and left them” before dawn.
[170] H. G. Wells, The Time Machine.