The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part, why was the sight... Lectures and Addresses - Page 43by Redmond Barry (Sir) - 1854Full view - About this book
| John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...light so necessary is to life, 90 And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as th' eyeconfin'd, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd ? 95 And not as feeling through all parts diffus'd,... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 296 pages
...is in the soul, She all in ev'ry part ; why was the sight To such a tender ball as th" eye confin'd, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd, And not, as feeling, thro" all parts diffus'd, That she may look at will thro" ev'ry pore! Such are the faults and such... | |
| 592 pages
...Migest drinks our chief support"1 advantage. Milton, however, was htalth; That light is in the soul, She all in every part ; why was the sight To -such a tender ball as th' eye confin'd So obvious and so easy to be quench'd ? And not as feeling, through all parts dif*«iom... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 424 pages
...is in the soul, She all in ev'ry part ; why was the sight To such a tender hall as the eye confin'd, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd, And not, as feeling, through all parts diffns'd, That the may look at will thro' ev'ry pore ? Such are the faults and such the beauties of... | |
| 1806 - 340 pages
...is in the soul, She all in ev'ry part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as th' eye confin'd, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd, And not, as feeling, thro' all parts, diffus'd, That she may look at will thro' ev'ry pore. Such are the faults and such... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...necessary is to life, 99 And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in ev'ry part ; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confin'd, So obvious and so easy to be qucnch'd ? And not as feeling through all parts difTus'd, '1... | |
| 1808 - 602 pages
...lhat sight was not in like manner spread throughout his whole frame, that he might see at every pore ; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confin'd, ,So obvigus and so easy to be quench'd ? And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 334 pages
...in the soul, She all in ev'ry part; w why was the sight To such a tender ball as th* eye confin'd, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd, And not as feeling, thro' all parts diffus'd, That she may look at will thro" ev'ry pore ? Such are the faults and such... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 pages
...necessary is to life, And almost life itself; if it be true, That light is in the soul, She all in ev'ry part ; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confin'd, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd. And not, as feeling, through all parts diffus'd, That... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confin'd, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd ? That slke might look at will through every pore ?... | |
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