Spectacles Quote by Thomas de Quincey

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

— Victor Hugo

“Upon the whole, the Sun is a glorious creation; pleasing to gaze upon (through smoked glass), elevating to think upon, and exceedingly comfortable to…

— Marshall P. Wilder

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

— Walt Whitman

Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn…

— John D. MacDonald

“So all these years—since when?—he had been seeing the light of dead stars, long extinguished, yet seemingly still in their appointed places in the…

— Paz Marquez Benitez

“turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall…

— William Shakespeare

The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.

— John Dryden

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.

— Robert Herrick

“It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the light of…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our…

— Edmund Waller

“As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and…

— Anonymous