| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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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