"Cassiopeia" Quotes from Famous Books
... be the only surviving memory of a city that has vanished. You might be solitary among the unsubstantial shades, for about you are only comets passing through space, and inscrutable shapes; your neighbours are Cassiopeia and the Great Bear. ... — London River • H. M. Tomlinson
... the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia (Cassiope, Cassiepeia), king and queen of the Ethiopians. Cassiopeia, having boasted herself equal in beauty to the Nereids, drew down the vengeance of Poseidon, who sent an inundation on the land and a sea-monster which destroyed man and beast. The ... — Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... queen: Cassiopeia, the legendary Queen of Ethiopia, and thence translated amongst ... — The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... stars. Without either telescope or technical knowledge, the careful observer of the stars will notice that the most brilliant constellations show this tendency. The glorious Orion, Canis Major containing the brightest star in the heavens, Cassiopeia, Perseus, Cygnus, and Lyra with its bright-blue Vega, not to mention such constellations as the Southern Cross, all lie in or near the Milky Way. Schiaparelli has extended the investigation to all the stars visible to the naked eye. He laid down on ... — Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb |