 ... that those two comets passed directly over the city, and that so very near the houses that it was plain they imported something peculiar to the city alone ; that the comet before the pestilence was of a faint, dull, languid colour, and its motion...  Belgravia - Page 2051877Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Defoe - Great Plague, London, England, 1664-1666 - 1998 - 340 pages
...the City alone ; that the Comet before the Pestilence, was of a faint, dull, languid Colour,1 and its Motion very heavy, solemn and slow : But that the...slow but severe, terrible and frightful, as was the Plague;2 But the other foretold a Stroak, sudden, swift, and fiery as the Conflagration ; nay, so particular... | |
 | Mary Shelley - Fiction - 1996 - 476 pages
...the city alone; that the Comet before the pestilence was of a faint, dull, languid colour, and its motion very heavy, solemn, and slow: but that the...other foretold a stroke, sudden, swift, and fiery, as the conflagration; nay, so particular some people were that, as they looked upon that Comet preceding... | |
 | Roberta J. M. Olson, Jay M. Pasachoff - Art - 1999 - 412 pages
...to the city alone; that the comet before the pestilence was of a faint, dull, languid color, and its motion very heavy, solemn, and slow; but that the...judgment, slow but severe, terrible, and frightful, as the Plague was; but the other foretold a stroke, sudden, swift, and fiery, like the conflagration 1... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - Fiction - 2004 - 284 pages
...the city alone; that the comet before the pestilence was of a faint, dull, languid colour, and its motion very heavy, solemn, and slow; but that the...fire was bright and sparkling, or, as others said, faming, and its motion swift and furious; and that accordingly one foretold a heavy judgment, slow... | |
 | Richard Hunt Sanderson, Philip S. Harrington - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2006 - 134 pages
...Journal of the Plague Year published in 1722, Daniel Defoe reports how the comet was seen as an omen of "a heavy judgment, slow but severe, terrible and frightful, as was the plague." Martian polar ice caps are discovered by Giovanni Cassini, an Italian astronomer and engineer. Today... | |
 | Daniel Defoe, Howard Maynadier - 1904 - 324 pages
...the city alone ; that the comet before the pestilence was of a faint, dull, languid colour, and its motion very heavy, solemn, and slow ; but that the...other foretold a stroke, sudden, swift, and fiery as the conflagration. Nay, so particular some people were, that as they looked upon that comet preceding... | |
 | American literature - 1864 - 886 pages
...pestilence was of a faint, dull, languid color, and its motion very heavy, solemn, and slow ; bat ' that the comet before the fire was bright and sparkling, or, as others said, flaming and furious; and that, accordingly, one foretold a heavy judgment, slow, but severe, terrible, and frightful,... | |
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