"Pharos" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pharos true, light ever new Streams through its friendly pane, To guide and greet benighted feet Which thread ...
— Autumn Leaves - Original Pieces in Prose and Verse • Various
... the entrance to the outer bay and harbour of New York. It was three o'clock in the morning, a fresh yet bland breeze was just giving motion to the smooth sea, and above, the firmament showed thickly studded with heaven's lights; but the dazzling pharos of the Hook, to my mind, were brighter at this hour than the best twinklers on the floor ...
— Impressions of America - During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Tyrone Power
... the Powers infernall, by the vertue of the naturall elements, by the silences of the night, by the building of Swallows nigh unto the towne Copton, by the increase of the floud Nilus, by the secret mysteries of Memphis, and by the instruments and trumpets of the Isle Pharos, have mercy I say, and call to life this dead body, and make that his eyes which he closed and shut, may be open and see. Howbeit we meane not to strive against the law of death, neither intend we to deprive the earth of his right, but to the end this ...
— The Golden Asse • Lucius Apuleius
... Count of Hoernsdern; a German Tale. By the Author of Constance, the Pharos, Argus, ...
— Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 • Edward Ziegler Davis
... continues: "You have noticed those lines of wire which cross the streets of London. It is Faraday's currents that speed from place to place through these wires. Approaching the point of Dungeness, the mariner sees an unusually brilliant light, and from the noble Pharos of La Heve the same light flashes across the sea. These are Faraday's sparks, exalted by suitable machinery to sunlight splendor. At the present moment (1868), the Board of Trade and the Brethren of ...
— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller
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