 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, She all in every part; why was the sight...  Lectures on English Poetry: To the Time of Milton - Page 101by Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 118 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...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...light is in the soul, She all in every part; why was this sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd? And not,... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to lifo, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part ; why was the light To such a tender ball as th' eye confined, So obvious and so easy to be quenched ? And not as... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...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...every part, why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, So obvious and so easy to be quenched, And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused,... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...consciousness."27 Milton's Samson is similarly perplexed over the thingness of light: Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part. (90-93) The bond between mind and light was assumed even in the scientific tradition, where students... | |
 | John Milton - Drama - 1988 - 244 pages
...night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life it self, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in...every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as th'eye confin'd? So obvious and so easie to be quench't, And not as feeling through all parts diffus'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almosl life itself if it be true That light is in the Soul,...tender ball as th' eye confin'd? So obvious and so easie to be quench3 1, And not as feeling through all parts djffus'd, That she might look at will through... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 pages
...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...why was the sight To such a tender ball as th' eye confined? So obvious and so easy to be quenched, And not as feeling through all parts diffused, That... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to Me, 90 And almost life itself, if it be true That light is...why was the sight To such a tender ball as th' eye confined? So obvious and so easy to be quenched, And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused, That... | |
 | Martha Woodmansee, Peter Jaszi - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 482 pages
...finds herself accused of plagia9 Id. at 41. Compare John Milton's Samson, a blind poet's blind hero: "why was the sight / To such a tender ball as th' eye confin'd? / So obvious and so easy to be quench't, / And not like feeling, through all parts diffus'd, / That she might look at will through... | |
 | David Appelbaum - Philosophy - 1995 - 172 pages
...Milton, the blind poet, writing in 1671, raises the following question: Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That...every part, why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined. So obvious and so easy to be quenched. And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused... | |
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