Citations:Phosphor
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English citations of Phosphor
Proper noun: "the planet Venus"[edit]
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- 1714, anonymous author, “Solomon's song”, in Poetical miscellanies, consisting of original poems and translations, [pirated edition, containing only a small portion of the original (1714) work], Dublin: Mr. Steele, published 1726, →OCLC, page 25:
- Her Marble Neck the ſparkling Gems adorn,
As radiant Phoſphor paints the ſhining Morn;
- 1781, Benjamin Martin, The young gentleman and lady's philosophy: in a continued survey of the works of nature and art by way of dialogue, 3rd edition, volume 1, London: W. Owen […] and the author, →OCLC, page 50:
- […] for when ſhe was the Morning Star, the Greeks called her Phoſphor, and the Latins called her Lucifer, both which Names import ſhe uſhered in the Light, and Day; and when ſhe was the Evening Star ſhe was called Veſper, and Heſperus, by the Greeks; […]
- 1960, John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, →OCLC, page 518:
- Anna likened you to Phosphor, the morning star, and herself to Hesper, the mortal star of evening, and when I told her those twin stars were one and the same, and not a star at all but the planet Venus, […]
- 1984, Joseph T. Shipley, “bher I”, in The origins of English words: a discursive dictionary of Indo-European roots, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 35:
- Phosphor is a poetic name for the morning star.