 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 460 pages
...concluded by fuch exppftulations and wifhes, as reafon too often fubmits $Q learn from defpair : O firft created beam, and thou great word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereav'd, thy prime decree j , The fun to me is dark, And filent as the moon, When fhe deferts the... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...amid the blaze of noon, So Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first ereated beam, and thou great word, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime deeree? 85 The sun tome is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...noon, 80 Irrecoverably dark, total eclipfe Withgut all hope of day ! O firft-created Beam, and them great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? 85 The fun to me is dark And filent as .the moon, When fhe deferts the... | |
 | Concert programs - 1791 - 126 pages
...! Why thus depriv'd thy prime decree? Sun, moon, and ftars, are dark to me 1 ( 4 ) CHORUS. O firft- created beam, and thou great Word ! Let there be light ! and light was over all ; One heav'nly blaze fhone round this -earthly ball ! To thy dark fervant life by light afford. SONG.... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 430 pages
...dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipfe Without all hope of day ! O fird created Beam, and thou great Word,. Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree Ï The fun to me is dark, And filent, as the moon When (he deferís the night,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 458 pages
...concluded by fuch expopulations and wifhes, as reaCon too often fubmits to learn from defpair : O firft created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The fun to me is dark, And Clent as the moon, When fhe d^ferts the night,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...concluded by fuch expoftulations and wifhes, as reafon too often fubmits to learn from defpair : O firft created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The fun to me is dark, And filent as the moon, When ihe d eferts the night,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 296 pages
...addressed to the passions and the fancy. The enumeration of his miseries is succeeded by a very pleasing train of poetical images, and concluded by such expostulations...reason too often submits to learn from despair: O first creafed beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd... | |
 | 1867 - 636 pages
...! Amid the blaze of noon Irrevocably dark ! Total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first-created beam ! and Thou Great Word " Let there be light !...over all, Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? ' When his people saw and thought of these dread sufferings — when they remembered what he who... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 424 pages
...addressed to the passions and the fancy. The enumeration of his miseries is succeeded by a very pleasing train of poetical images, and concluded by such .expostulations...there 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,... | |
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O first created Beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all... 
