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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. "
The Vision, Or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise - Page 54
by Dante Alighieri - 1858 - 587 pages
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets

David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 528 pages
...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 she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave." In prose something equivalent to this might have been permitted by reason of the severe impressiveness...
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets

David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 494 pages
...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 she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave." In prose something equivalent to this might have been permitted by reason of the severe impressiveness...
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Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volume 3

Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...be light, and light was over all 5 Why am " thus bereav'd thy prime decree . The sun t 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 Htjht is in the soul....
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...light, and light was over all;'' \Vhy am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark, Ami silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunnr cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light...
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Lectures on the British Poets, Volume 1

Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...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 she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave." In the early part of this lecture I spoke of what had struck me as the magnanimity of Milton's boyhood....
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Principles of Elocution

Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...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 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,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...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 she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.1 Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...light, and light was over all ;'' . Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree t The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant iiitcrhumr cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light...
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English Synonyms ...

George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 pages
...Ant. When my good stars, that were my former guides Have empty left their orhs Ant. md Cieop., v. 11 silent as the moon When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interluuar cave SA, 89. Or in the emptier waste, resemhling air Weighs his spread wings PL, ii. 1045....
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Select specimens of the English poets, ed. by A. De Vere

Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...be light, and light was over all ;' Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree 2 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,...
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