Note 111 — Scene I.—The Abyss of Space.
Reading edition
[Compare—
"And, fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent World, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon."
Paradise Lost, ii. 1051-1053.
Compare, too—
"The magic car moved on. Earth's distant orb appeared The smallest light that twinkles in the heavens; Whilst round the chariot's way Innumerable systems rolled, And countless spheres diffused An ever-varying glory."
Shelley's Queen Mab, Poetical Works, 1829, p. 106.]