"Ruling the calm spaciousness of that heaven was the great comet, now green-white, and wonderful for all who had eyes …"

"I am as familiar with the paths of heaven as with the streets of Nehardea, with the exception of the comet, about whi…"

"What you fellows call progress moves by two springs, men and events. But sad to say, from time to time the exceptiona…"

"I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then — wh…"

"When in your middle years The great comet comes again Remember me, a child, Awake in the summer night, Standing in my…"

"I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the g…"

"By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wonder'd at."

"At first it had been an almost telescopic speck; it had brightened to the dimensions of the greatest star in the heav…"

"As I drew near the end, the sense of strangeness returned to me. It was more and more evident to me that this was a d…"

"The first Graeco-Egyptian astrologists did not invent the discipline they claimed to teach the Hellenic world. They u…"