It was not the flitting of the closer shadow over the hill and dale: it was a picture which the sun threw at our feet of the dignified march of the moon in its orbit.
"And now we looked around.

What a strange orange light there was in the north-east! what a spectral hue to the whole landscape! Was it really the same old earth, and not another planet?
"Great is the self-denial of those who follow science.

They who look through telescopes at the time of a total eclipse are martyrs; they severely deny themselves.

The persons who can say that they have seen a total eclipse of the sun are those who rely upon their eyes.

My aids, who touched no glasses, had a season of rare enjoyment.