Moon Lore, by Timothy Harley, [1885]
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VOYAGING TO THE MOON.
From Domingo Gonsales [A.D. 1638].
See page 46
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"And when the clear moon, with its soothing influences, rises full in my view,--from the wall-like rocks, out of the damp underwood, the silvery forms of past ages hover up to me, and soften the austere pleasure of contemplation."
Goethe's "Faust." Hayward's Translation, London, 1855, p. 100.