 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all ," Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree .' ncied so, through expectation high Of knowledge ; nor was godhead from Since light so necessary is to life. And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul,... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all ;" Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When...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,... | |
 | Jesus Christ - 1843 - 224 pages
...dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon Irrecoverably dark ; total eclipse, Wilhiml the hope of day 1 The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon When she deserts the night." — MILTON. How greatly is this calamity increased, when to it are added the sorrows of poverty ! The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pages
...great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree Î The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she df s"rt* the nitfht, Hi'l in her vacant interlunar сете. Since light во пегелчагу is... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1844 - 606 pages
...long with zeal Have sought thy volume, and with love immense 1 n here the sun in silence rests. ,] The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Milton. Sam. Agon. The same metaphor will recur, Canto v. verse 29. Into a place I came Where light... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1844 - 522 pages
...raven down " Of darkness till it smiled." "Midnight shout and revelry, " Tipsy dance and jollity." " The sun to me is dark " And silent as the moon, "...the night, "Hid in her vacant interlunar cave."— MILTON. The measure of the following two lines is remarkably descriptive of the tardy leavetaking of... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all," Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon When...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,... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1845 - 552 pages
...raven down " Of darkness till it smiled." "Midnight shout and revelry, " Tipsy dance and jollity." " The sun to me is dark " And silent as the moon, "...the night, " Hid in her vacant interlunar cave."— MILTON. The measure of the following two lines is remarkably descriptive of the tardy leavetaking of... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pages
...the Fr. interlunaire. The season between the going out of tire old and the coming in of the new moon. The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant inttrlunar cave. Alilton. Samson Agonista, 1. 90. p. 82. We add the two Egyptian days in every mouth,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1858 - 628 pages
...zeal Have sought thy volume, and with love immense e fun in silence rests.] The sun to me is dork, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Milton, Sam Agon, The same metaphor will recur, Canto v. verse 29. Into a place I came Where light... | |
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Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. 
