| 单词 | fires of heaven |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfires of heaven (b) fires of heaven (also heavenly fires): the stars. Cf. sense A. 7c. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > star > [noun] stareOE starnc1175 lamp1423 aster1603 spangle1605 fires of heaven1609 asterism1657 sunleta1854 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica xiii. sig. Ee6 Achilles eye fixt on a brighter starre Then any shines, fixt mongst the heauenly fires, The rarest Pollixene alone admires. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. v. 10 Or by the fires of heauen, Ile leaue the Foe. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 256 Before him burn Seaven Lamps as in a Zodiac representing The Heav'nly fires . View more context for this quotation 1737 H. Baker Medulla Poetarum Romanorum I. 253 The starry Lamps shall combat in the Sky, And lost, and blended in each other, die: Quench'd in the Deep the heavenly Fires shall fall. 1761 W. J. Mickle in Scots Mag. Dec. 654/1 Wisdom, you boast, to you is given; At night, then, view the fires of heaven, And let thy mind explore; Swift as the lightning let it fly, From star to star, from sky to sky. 1889 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 197 A hymn which he addressed to the gods mentions the moon with icy rays to signalize its powerlessness against the divine fires of heaven. 1892 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 21 23 He transformed himself into a large eagle, stole the sun.., also the fire stick that was used to kindle the heavenly fires, and flew over the walls of heaven. 1977 Courier-Index (Marianna, Arkansas) 8 Dec. 2/5 Heavenly fires bring beauty to the night. 2004 T. Andrews Wonders of Sky v. 89 The Milky Way looked like..a sparkling road, a road lit by heavenly fires that guided people from one world to the next. < as lemmas |
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