 | Kay Gilliland Stevenson, Margaret Seares - 1998 - 214 pages
...wide / In circuit," and the entire solar system "fast by hanging in a golden Chain, / This pendant World, in bigness as a Star / Of smallest Magnitude close by the Moon" (2.1047, 1051-53). Here earth and heaven seem intimately related, and they continue to appear as closely... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...adorn'd Of living Sapphire, once his native Seat; 1050 And fast by hanging in a golden Chain This pendant world, in bigness as a Star Of smallest Magnitude close by the Moon. Thither full fraueht with mischievous revenge, Accurst, and in a cursed hour he hies. 1055 The End... | |
 | T.C. Boyle - Fiction - 2006 - 308 pages
...been, she was able to quote him three lines of Milton — "And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, / This pendent world, in bigness as a star / Of smallest magnitude close by the moon" — and he rewarded her with a smile that made the wilderness melt away to nothing. He was like her... | |
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And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon. 
