 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 pages
...be light, and light was ovur all ; Why am I thus bereav'd 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. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself; if it be true, That light is in the soul,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...be light, and light was over all ;" Why am I thus bereav'd 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. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul,... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...be light, and light was over all;" Why am I thus bereav'd 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. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...be light, and light was over all;" Why am I thus bereav'd 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. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 460 pages
...be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd 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. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself; if it be true, That light is in the soul,... | |
 | 1810 - 462 pages
...be light, and light was o.ver all ; Why Mil I thus bereav'd 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. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself; if it be true, That light... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1813 - 416 pages
...appellant. Lib. XVI. cap. 39. In imitation of this language, Milton says : " The sun to me is dark, " And silent as the moon, " When she deserts the night, " Hid in her vacant interlunar cave." WARBURTON. I believe this display of learning might have been spared. Silent, though an adjective,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...light, and light was over all ;" Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? .85 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, 90 And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1815 - 748 pages
...appellant, lib. xvi. cap. 39- I» imitation of this language, Milton ,'iys : " The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon. / When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant intcriunar cave." WAUB. I believe this display of learning might have been spared. Silent, though an... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 236 pages
...light, and light was over all ; Why am I thns bereav'd thy prime decree ? 85 The snn to me is dark And silent as the moon When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlnnar cave j tSince light so necessary is to life, 90 And almost life itself, if it be trne That... | |
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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. 
