Part 46 (2/2)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, James Russell Lowell, John G Whittier, Fitz-Greene Halleck, and ed by a future age

_Impartially_, justly, without prejudice

Name the different kinds of Poetry

Epic, or historical; dramatic, or representative,--from drama, the nae--in which are displayed, for instruction and as, errors, and virtues of the human race in real life; lyric poetry, or that suited to iac, or sentirammatic, or witty and ludicrous; and pastoral, or descriptive of country life

_Historical_, relating to history

_Lyric_, pertaining to a lyre

_Didactic_, doctrinal; relating to doctrines or opinions

_Elegiac_, relating to elegy; : a funeral coance

_Satirical_, severe in language; relating to satire

_Satire_, a poera in a particular point or , understood but not expressed

_Pastoral_, fro to rural e to shepherds

What is Astronomy?

The science which treats of the heavenly bodies, their arrangenitudes, distances and motions The ter the _law_ of the _stars_; _astron_ being the Greek for star

What can you say of its origin?

Its origin has been ascribed to several persons, as well as to different nations and ages Belus, King of assyria; Atlas, King of Mauritania; and Uranus, King of the countries situated on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, are all recorded as the persons to whoin is generally fixed in Chaldea Some choose, however, to attribute it to the Hebrews; others to the Egyptians,--from whom, they say, it passed to the Greeks

What country is iven to a country in the northern part of Africa Chaldea is the ancient name for Babylonia, now called Irak Arabi, a district of Asiatic Turkey

By ere the heavenly bodies first divided into Constellations or groups?

By the ancients The phenoes by several nations of the East The Chaldeans, the Indians, the Chinese and the Egyptians have all left evidence of the industry and ingenuity hich their observations were conducted

_Phenomena_, appearances