Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Milky Way (The).

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Milky Way (The).

A great circle of stars entirely surrounding the heavens. They are so crowded together that they appear to the naked eye like a “way” or stream of faint “milky” light. The Galaxy or Via Lact

“A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold

And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear,

Seen in the galaxy—that Milky Way,

Thick, nightly, as a circling zone, thou seest

Powdered with stars.”

Milton: Paradise Lost, vii. 577, etc.

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